Food and Guts with Tommy Banks, The Black Swan (S3 E5)

Life in Food with Laura Price

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk to chef and restaurateur Tommy Banks about Food and Guts, a threefold topic that incorporates Tommy's diagnosis of ulcerative colitis at age 18, then having the guts to begin a career as a chef, and later developing an interest in gut health and fermented foods. In the episode, we talk about everything from illness and imposter syndrome to ultra-processed foods and Tommy's love of Yorkshire puddings and Sunday roasts.

  • Follow Tommy on Instagram @tommybanks.
  • Visit The Black Swan's website.
  • Visit The Abbey Inn's website.
  • Visit Roots's website.
  • Visit Saltmoore's website.
  • Read Roots.
  • Explore Made in Oldstead's food boxes.

Restaurants mentioned in the episode:

  • The Dunkirk in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, telling powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

  • Follow Life in Food on Instagram @lifeinfoodpod.
  • Buy Single Bald Female.
  • Visit Laura's website.
  • Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
  • Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
  • Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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