The SPK Book Club

Irene Olivo & Margaux Vialleron

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The SPK Book Club

A voracious book club podcast, hosted by friends Irene and Margaux. You can expect conversations on books, rabbit holes about authors’ lives, rediscovered classics and author interviews. This podcast may contain details about the food we eat while we read.

JUN 24

S.4.1. Leftovers: a history of food waste & preservation with Eleanor Barnett

The Salmon Pink Kitchen podcast is back for a fourth season! And we’re relaunching on a high with an episode recorded live during our book club meeting around Leftovers: a history of food waste & preservation by Eleanor Barnett. In this episode, Irene and Margaux join Dr Eleanor Barnett for a journey through the various historical periods covered in Leftovers, and the related recipes and inventions that came from them. We talked about tinned foods and the revolution they brough...

54 min
07/05/2022

12. The Yellow Kitchen with Irene Olivo and Margaux Vialleron

Today the Salmon Pink Kitchen podcast gets a yellow makeover for a special episode in which Irene and Margaux discuss writing processes and Margaux’s debut novel, The Yellow Kitchen (spoiler free). ‘A heady mix of politics, friendship, sex and food, poignant, provocative and utterly distinctive’ — Paula Hawkins ‘’An exquisite novel — beautifully rendered, powerfully told, and so deeply felt. I urge you to read this novel — you will never forget it’ — Lucia Osborne-Crowley The Y...

56 min
05/03/2022

11. On Storytelling in the Kitchen with Numra Siddiqui

In this new episode of the Salmon Pink Kitchen podcast, Irene and Margaux welcome Numra Siddiqui, head chef and owner of Empress Market, to discuss storytelling in the kitchen. With Numra, we retraced her journey from an office job to running a hospitality brand where she combines food, family traditions and storytelling. From selecting ingredients to planning a menu, doing the maths and picking dishwares, this episode is filled with tips and Numra’s love for a good story. This pod...

1h 5m
03/29/2022

10. On Writing Cookbooks with Claire Thomson

In this new episode of the Salmon Pink Kitchen podcast, Irene and Margaux welcome chef and food writer Claire Thomson to chat all things writing cookbooks. Claire is the author of seven cookery books and her new book, Tomato, will be published in June by Quadrille Publishing. You can pre-order your copy now. With Claire, we took a journey through her cookery books, motherhood, feeding a family, working in kitchens, confidence, and using her Instagram account as a tool to spark ideas for ...

45 min
02/21/2022

9. Documenting Home Cooking with Rebecca May Johnson

In the first episode of this third season of the Salmon Pink Kitchen podcast, Irene and Margaux welcome writer and cook Rebecca May Johnson. With Rebecca, we returned to the basics of tomato sauce, cooking together over Zoom as we talked about documenting home cooking, Rebecca’s 10-year old dinner document blog, which has just been turned into a Substack, and her upcoming memoir Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, which will be published by Pushkin Press in August 2022. You can pre-orde...

1h 4m
12/21/2021

8. A Celebratory Recipe of One's Own

The Salmon Pink Kitchen ends 2021 with a live recipe swap! For this episode, Irene and Margaux missioned their listeners to send through recipes that celebrate the cooks they are and/or their kitchens. Grab a snack and a drink of your choice and settle in as we dress 10 supper tables in honour of the women artists and writers we celebrated in our newsletter through 2021. Click here to subscribe to our monthly Salmon Pink Newsletter. N.B. make sure you have a pen and a notebook:...

1h 7m
10/26/2021

7. The Dinner Party with Anna Sulan Masing

In this episode Irene and Margaux welcome writer, poet, academic and editor Anna Sulan Masing for a salmon pink dinner party (oui oui, an actual IRL dinner party!). With Anna, we spoke about spirits, bread making and the pomodoro technique, collaborative work, food and academia, the fake meat industry, storytelling, culture appropriation in the kitchen, garlic and ginger and much more. Anna (@AnnaSulan) is the founder and editor-in-chief of both SOURCED and CHEESE, the magazine of...

1h 10m
09/28/2021

6. On Food and Publishing with Marigold Atkey

In this episode Irene and Margaux welcome Marigold Atkey, editor at Daunt Books Publishing, to chat about food writing in the publishing industry. With Marigold, we spoke about Daunt Books’ reissue of the work of M.F.K. Fisher, the role of food in literature, our favourite food writing, the rise of social media homecooks and so much more!Recommendations from today’s episode:Books:The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher (1943)The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (1946)‘The Anatomy of ...

53 min

A voracious book club podcast, hosted by friends Irene and Margaux. You can expect conversations on books, rabbit holes about authors’ lives, rediscovered classics and author interviews. This podcast may contain details about the food we eat while we read.

Creator

Irene Olivo & Margaux Vialleron
Years Active

2021 - 2024
Episodes

13
Rating

Explicit
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