Truly Scrumptious - A Food Festival Podcast

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Jon Hackett and Lotte Duncan

20 episodes

8 months ago

Hello and welcome to our Truly Scrumptious Podcast.

Where we talk Food Festivals, Festival Food, Foodie Friends and Friends of the Festival.

In each episode we will chat to one of our many friends - our stage chefs and bakers, food producers, festival team and other people involved in the festival world. It’s a huge world, it’s a hardworking one and great fun too. Although a tad stressful at times!

My name is Lotte Duncan a food writer, presenter and eater! I have been involved in many areas of the food industry for over forty years.

I’ve owned and run a cookery school and cafe. I’ve cooked on television a fair bit, hosted stages at many live shows, interviewed more chefs and bakers than I can remember and written a best selling cook book. Over the last 8 years I’ve spent my spring and summers judging food for the Great Taste Awards. And for the last 10 years I’ve been involved in Food Festivals.

Meet Jon Hacket! Jon comes from a background of advertising and film making. I met him when he was my camera man on a shoot. (Lucky chap)

He’s in charge of all things logistics - from fencing to marquees, infrastructure to loos and power supply to bins! He describes himself as the director of sanitation - he’s much more than that of course, and to me he’s my anchor! A calming influence when I have my inevitable melt down exactly 10 days before each festival. It’s what I do!

Together we will bring our festivals to life on this podcast, chat to our many friends, find out back stage gossip, tips and tricks from the chefs and bakers and just how we pull it all together to create a truly scrumptious foodie festival weekend!

http://www.scrumptiousfoodfestivals.co.uk

http://www.thamefoodfestival.co.uk

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Hello and welcome to our Truly Scrumptious Podcast.

Where we talk Food Festivals, Festival Food, Foodie Friends and Friends of the Festival.

My name is Lotte Duncan a food writer, presenter and eater! I have been involved in many areas of the food industry for over forty years.

Meet Jon Hacket! Jon comes from a background of advertising and film making. I met him when he was my camera man on a shoot. (Lucky chap)

http://www.scrumptiousfoodfestivals.co.uk

http://www.thamefoodfestival.co.uk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes (20/20)

Truly Scrumptious - A Food Festival Podcast

COMBER REVISITED!

We're back! And we're hungry. Good job we're at a Food Festival!

We take another trip to one of the most beautiful countries and we eat. A lot.

The Comber Earlies Food Festival in Comber, Northern Ireland once again plays host to the honourable PGI Potato grown around Strangford Loch. Best steamed and served with quantities of butter and a sprinkling of parsley and salt.

I was really happy to return for another year to host the Meet the Producer Stage and do a spot of cooking too.

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We are on the last count down to Thame Food Festival which is at the end of September. A big event with huge infrastructure and complex logistics - and an often challenging final week or two as things change, move around and people book late!

Event's are moveable feasts - all your plans t the beginning of the year are often topsy turvy by the festival itself. It keeps us on our toes...ad can often lead to a sleepless night or two.

As we plunge towards D Day - I am reminded of the food festival we worked at in June where we didn't have any of the stresses from putting on the event - we just enjoyed it! The atmosphere, the people, the food, the drink and the sunshine.

Here is part two of our trip to Northern Ireland to take part in the Comber Earlies Potato Festival.

First up I had a lovely chat with my matey Paula McIntyre....

In June, Jon and I flew over to Northern Ireland. I had been asked to host the “Meet the Producers’ Stage at the Comber Earlies Potato Festival in Comber which sits on Strangford Loch.

It is a beautiful town, in a stunning part of the country and we were treated to a joyful festival of food and lovely people.

My fab friend Paula McIntyre (more from her later) who you would have heard on a previous podcast - put me forward and introduced me to Heather Shields from Ards and North Down Council.

Together with her team they put on a truly wonderful event. The sun shone that day, the food, drink, music and laughter flowed.

Welcome to another of our special summer podcasts!

A month or so ago I spoke with the utterly delightful Dr Neil Buttery when his brand new book was launched.

I happened upon Neil (as you do!) when scrolling through instagram and I saw that he had written a book about one of my all time culinary heroines.

Now…You might be thinking Mary Berry (yes I love Mary, have worked with Mary and I think she is fabulous) … but it’s not her. Neither is it Delia or …tum tum tum Nigella!

This lady lived about three hundred years ago in Manchester. She was forthright, intelligent, canny and with a fabulous business head. At a time when women weren’t allowed opinion or property.

So….. make a cup of tea, get comfy and slice some of your favourite cake…

Settle down in your best chair and let me introduce you to Elizabeth Raffald and her biographer the fabulous Neil Buttery.

In May, Jon and I were invited by the British Trout Association to spend a day in the sunny Cotswolds learning to fish Trout.

Having never fished a day in my life I thought this was a great opportunity and a lovely way to spend a day.

We arrived at Lechlade Trout Fishery, met our other fellow fisher folk, had a coffee and welcome biscuit…. then rod in hand walked towards a huge pond full to the brim with Trout.

It’s a bit more complicated than just tossing a rod and line into the water, there is a bit of flicking, drawing of the line, a good eye to spot the trout…and patience.

Not my strongest quality - but definitely Jons. Who caught four…. I managed to land three!

But that was in the easy pond….after lunch we went to the large lake where our quarry was a little harder to net!

We were in the expert hands of Tim from Lechlade Fishery and learnt so much from Oliver, the CEO of the British Trout Association.

Oh we have a Bake-tastic episode for you all this week!

A tangy, toasty, squishy, warm and spongy whopper of an hour with four amazing women who also happen to have competed on the Great British Bake Off. And one - who WON!

And we are happy to say that they are all joining us at our Festivals this year too!

This is the last episode in the current series.....but we'll be back at the end of June with lots more Festival chat - with interviews recorded at our event in Bradford on Avon! And more......

In the meantime, watch out for a couple of 'one off' episodes....

www.scrumptiousfoodfestivals.co.uk

www.thamefoodfestivals.co.uk

Syabira - https://www.instagram.com/syabira_bakes/

Val - https://www.instagram.com/valcake.walks/

Carole - https://www.instagram.com/compostcarole/

Dawn - https://www.instagram.com/thebakerdawn/

Welcome to another squidgy, chewy, light and bouncy episode. And this week we are all over the place!

We take a trip to Cornwall for a catch up with the lovely LoveDay Gin Girls, Daisy and Chloe. We’re also chatting with another gorgeous lady there - Deb Porter, our fabulous Festival Photographer!

Then we’re up to Gloucestershire to speak with one of our favourite and longest attending producers - Beccy Whittal and her award winning and bloomin' delicious fudge.

But first first of all we zoom over to Sweden to speak to Jane Sandstrom who we first met last year on Midsummer in the land of the midnight sun!

Hello and welcome to another squishy, whopper of a lightly toasted episode.

This week I am chatting with my old matey Tristan Welch - not only an incredible chef, thoroughly nice chap but also my culinary boyfriend. Yes, it’s a thing!

We go back a few years, when we competed together in New York, on Food Network’s bonkers tv show - Chopped!

It was a crazy few days and the best experience - you’ll find out more in a moment…

And let us introducer you to two more lovely men that I had the joy to chat to recently - Ben and Will from True Story Brewing. They have gone from video production to Beer production and they are joining us at Bradford on Avon Food Festival this year.

Welcome to another scrumptilicious episode of joyous foodie chat.

This week we are chatting to Sonia Simons from Cook Stars, who’s aim it is to make cooking for children fun, nutritious and quite fabulous. She is bringing this to our Bradford on Avon Food Festival in June. A magical marquee of marvellous cooking!

I’ll be introducing you to my boyfriend NO3 - the very gorgeous and brilliant David Atherton, winner of Great British Bake Off in 2019.

Don’t worry Jon and Steven Carter Bailey Lotte's Number 1 and 2 boyfriends are completely fine with it!

Welcome to another deliciously, delectable episode full of scrumptious sumptuousness!

In the week that has International Women’s Day, this podcast gives me the chance to highlight two very clever women in the world of food.

They also happen to make two of my favourite products!

Sarah Churchill from The Artisan Kitchen who makes the most fabulous preserves, including the best Marmalade in the world as far as I’m concerned.

And Lisa Newsham from Freda’s Peanut Butter - it is quite frankly the best you’ll ever taste. Ever!

I’ll also chatting with my wonderful matey Ben Ebrell from Sorted Food - If you don’t know about Sorted Food, where have you been for the last 13 years!

His 50 shades of food really surprised me! Although I will be giving it a go….

Sarah Churchill, Artisan Kitchen - https://www.theartisankitchen.co.uk/

Lisa Newsham, Freda's Peanut Butter - https://www.fredas.co.uk/

Ben Ebrell, Sorted Food - https://sortedfood.com/

This week we have a chocker full episode of absolute yumminess!

And of course they all have some wonderful 50 shades of food!

On this week’s episode I’ll be introducing you to my Dad! Robert Duncan, cartoonist, illustrator and our Festival designer!

Then there is the gorgeous Lucie Ellis - one of our favourite chefs who takes to the BIG Cookery Stage every year. We 'did' lunch at The Standard Inn in Porthscatho....and it was stunning!

And we meet wonderful Vicki Usher who owns Humble Country - the company behind Thame Food Festivals huge, glorious and treasure filled Shopping Marquee.

As promised, we have a smorgasbord of delectable deliciousness for you this week.

The very bubbly, bright and joyous Suzy Pelta is joining us to chat about cakes, all things sweet and her hosting of our festival stages at Thame.

We have another fabulous encounter with the warm, funny and cocktail shaking Andy Clarke. A proper catch up. You’ll love it!

But first we zoom over to Sweden to chat with my lovely old friend Christina Gotzl whom I’ve known since I was just 19. We both worked in the restaurants of Oxford.

It was the 80’s and what fun it was!

The one and only and totally fabulous, Gennaro Contaldo will be joining us at Thame Food Festival this year on Saturday 30th September. Recently we spoke over zoom and his 50 shades of food is quite fabulous!

We chat to Rachel Blake who heads up our PR and Marketing at the festivals. Utterly professional and a complete delight to work with - we couldn’t do without her. She’s great fun and an integral part of our Festival family.

We both travelled to Cornwall recently - we love it there! A beautiful place which is our own personal mecca for food, drink and beaches.

We ate in scrumptious places and met up with some of our lovely Festival friends who will be on future episodes of this podcast.

And the first of these lovely people is Ugo Massabo - The Cornish Italian.

He started out selling his delicious and award winning TiramasUGO and then Covid hit so he diversified into Italian home delivered meals.

And now, he is now cooking up an Italian storm by the A390 in Cornwall! We met up with him and picked up some delicious supper!

In this episode, Great British Bake Off’s Steven Carter Bailey flirts with Lotte. A lot

We learn how to be the best Stage Compere with Simon Brown, there is plenty of Chopping and Chatting with Alex Hollywood and we find out what the ultimate Christmas Cheese Board is with Carolyn Hopkins.

A positively bountiful episode of utter Scrumptiousness - filled to the brim with decent, fun foodie chat.

Steven Carter-Bailey- https://www.stevencarterbailey.co.uk/

Alex Hollywood - https://www.alexhollywood.co.uk/

Simon Brown - https://www.simonbrown.tv/