10 episodes
Hungry Ghosts Daniel Stables, Charlie Duckworth
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A professional travel writer and a professional boozehound embark on a journey through the worlds of food, culture, alcohol and travel, examining the strange things we do in our search for meaning through food and drink. Buddhist and Hindu mythology resound with stories of hungry ghosts, their mouths like the eye of a needle and their bloated bellies speared with knives, who stalk the earth seeking in vain to sate their swollen appetites. In the wheel of death and rebirth, the hungry ghosts occupy a lower realm than humans, but we think that flatters us. We are all hungry ghosts. These are the lengths that we go to.
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Celebrity Salami | Foods of the Future
We end series one of Hungry Ghosts with a look into our crystal balls as we discuss the foods of the future. Meat grown in a peach tree dish! Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police! And the ultimate measure of human progress: salami made from cells harvested from celebrities. Yummy!
Charlie had to go to hospital after this. Not even a joke. That will teach us for attempting an alcohol-free episode. -
Horsemen of the Oesophagus | Competitive Eating
This week’s episode is a tribute to the greats of the competitive eating world. Joey Chestnut. Takeru Kobyashi. And our personal favourite, Sonya Thomas, a.k.a The Black Widow, a.k.a The Leader of the Four Horsemen of the Oesophagus. These guys don’t muck about. 13kg of poutine in ten minutes? 128oz of mayonnaise in eight minutes? 57 cow brains in 15 minutes? All in a day’s eats for the elite competitive eater. Listen to discover the story of the Great Eater of Kent, the early 20th century phenomenon of Fat Men’s Clubs, and what happens when you pit a professional competitive eater against a Kodiak bear.
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Hobson-Jobson | Food & Colonialism
We discuss the complex relationship between food and colonialism, from the linguistic legacy of the tea trade to the real crux of the issue: dogs who are addicted to curry. Bon appétit!
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Anti-Fascist Lemon | Italy
Benvenuti welcooome! This week’s episode is about all things Italian, from the masked soirées of Venice Carnival to the unlikely origins of tiramisu and the thorny subject of what can and cannot go on top of a pizza. We also delve into the unlikely story of Venetian wine and reveal why one beloved slapheaded actor is in danger of becoming the first official Enemy of the Podcast…
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The Tapeworm Diet | Elixirs
Have you met the Comte de Saint Germain? This week we explore the very strange history of ‘medicinal’ food and drink, from tapeworm pills to arsenic supplements and cigarette diets. Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet!
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Delirious Tremendous | History's Greatest Boozers
Restless ghouls, pissed as newts; lost souls, drowning in a fishbowl. And that’s just your hosts.
The boys discuss a subject close to their hearts this week: the greatest boozers of all time. From Alexander the Great’s fatal drinking contests to Ernest Hemingway liberating the bar of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, history is littered with problem drinkers – and don’t even get us started on Hunter S. Thompson.