Any Way You Slice It Podcast

Frightful food: Sewer vegetables, whale curry and lice-ridden salmon

Any Way You Slice It Podcast

Show Notes

Hello and welcome to our SIXTH episode of our podcast, Any Way You Slice It by Emma Henderson and Kate Ng. This is also the final episode of our first season (woohoo!) and we will be taking a short break, but we'll be back very soon!

This week, we'll be bringing you our favourite recent stories and content including how Project Slingshot and Chris Packham are highlighting the horrendous conditions in salmon farms; why Britons aren't eating a wider variety of seafood now compared to the 1940s; and whether it's a good idea to harvest vegetables growing from sewage (the answer is no, but we offer some urban foraging alternatives you can actually do!). Show notes: Snacks and starters: Slate: Men cooking: The boyfriends and husbands who do all the cooking The Times: Chris Packham targets factory farmed Scottish salmon sold by M&S Project Slingshot campaign BBC: Girl, 12, campaigns for healthier hospital food Audrina Gould’s petition The Guardian: Whale meat curry for dinner? Study of bygone seafood recipes shows how UK tastes have narrowed The Times: Knives out in Dubai as closed restaurants get Michelin stars The Daily Mail: Michelin Guide draws criticism from foodies who question revered fine dining Bible deals with tourism boards The Observer: Pineapple on pizza deserves your reconsideration Mains: Londoncentric: Eating London’s sewage vegetables Incredible Edibles Wild Food UK Glitch Desserts: M&S Merry Malt Balls Epping Forest Oyster Shack & Seafood Bar

We'd love to hear from you, so send any thoughts or suggestions to us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ or @sliceitpod on Instagram. See you all next time!

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