S2 E3: Food and Roots with Charmaine Wilkerson

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I discuss Food and Passion with Sophie Haydock, author of The Flames, a novel about the four muses who posed for the artist Egon Schiele in Vienna more than 100 years ago. Sophie and I talk about the links between food, passion and art, the passion that runs through the women in her novel, and her passion for writing. She also talks about her time working with the late Sunday Times food critic AA Gill, and shares an exclusive extract from one of the articles he dictated to her, about mushrooms.Follow Sophie on Instagram @_sophiehaydock_.Follow Egon's Schiele's Women on Instagram @egonschieleswomen.Follow Sophie on Twitter @SophieHaydock.Buy The Flames in paperback.Visit Sophie's website.Listen to Sophie on Confessions of a Debut Novelist.About Sophie Haydock: Sophie is an award-winning journalist who worked for The Sunday Times and has interviewed authors from Bernardine Evaristo to Sally Rooney, as well as being a judge for various literary competitions. The Flames is her debut novel.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and War with Alissa Timoshkina, who co-founded the Cook for Ukraine fundraising initiative with her friend Olia Hercules. In the episode, we talk about her campaign to fight conflict and violence with food and love, what she has learned from Russia's war on Ukraine, and how her Jewish-Ukrainian grandmother taught her that the human spirit cannot be extinguished through war.Follow Alissa on Instagram @alissatimoshkina.Follow MotherFood on Instagram @motherfoodlondon.Listen to MotherFood podcast.Follow Alissa on Twitter @alissatimoshkin.Buy Alissa's cookbook, Salt & Time.Try Alissa's recipe for borsch.Get involved with CookforUkraine.org.Visit Alissa's website.Read Laura's interview with Alissa and Olia for The World's 50 Best Restaurants.Restaurants mention in the episode:Mriya Neo BistroAbout Alissa Timoshkina: Alissa is a writer, historian and chef who published her first book, Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen, in 2019, and who hosts the podcast Motherfood. She founded the supper club KinoVino, pairing dishes with films, and has now extended Motherfood into a food service for new mothers.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and Fashion with Lauren Bravo, author of the upcoming novel Preloved. In the episode, we discuss the fashion of food, whether it’s okay to follow the trends when it comes to restaurants and ingredients, and whether retro foods like baked potatoes and spam are due a comeback. We also touch on eating disorders, dieting and pregnancy.Follow Lauren on Instagram @laurenbravo.Follow Lauren on Twitter @laurenbravo.Order Preloved on Bookshop.org.Visit Lauren's website.Restaurants mentioned in the episode:E PellicciMiznonThe Good EggThe PalomarThe BarbaryEvelyn's TableCrosstown DoughnutsKoyaDucksoupAbout Lauren Bravo: Lauren is a freelance journalist who writes about fashion, popular culture, food, travel and feminism for publications including Stylist, Cosmopolitan and Sunday Times Style. Her books include How to Break Up with Fast Fashion, What Would the Spice Girls Do?, and Preloved.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and Death with Dr Kathryn Mannix, a former palliative care consultant and bestselling author of two books: With the End in Mind, and Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations. In the episode, we talk about the link between food and death – what happens to our appetites as we die, how to celebrate a loved one through food, and what on earth is a Death Café.Follow Dr Kathryn on Instagram @drkathrynmannix.Follow Dr Kathryn on Twitter @drkathrynmannix.Order Listen on Bookshop.org.Order With the End in Mind on Bookshop.org.Visit Dr Kathryn's website. About Dr Kathryn Mannix: Dr Kathryn Mannix is a former palliative care consultant who now writes books and speaks publicly to help people gain a better understanding of what happens when we die. She is the author of With the End in Mind, a series of stories from her years in palliative care, which aims to help people not feel quite so scared about death and dying, and Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations, a guidebook for communicating with others.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and Identity with Daniela Soto-Innes, former chef-partner of Cosme in New York and winner of the World's Best Female Chef Award 2019. In the episode, we talk about how Daniela found her own identity as a Mexican immigrant in the US, how she built a kitchen culture that champions diversity and particularly Latinos, and what happened to her personal identity when she left the restaurant to which she'd dedicated her twenties. Daniela also gives us exclusive news about her brand new restaurant, Rubra, in Nayarit, Mexico.Follow Daniela on Instagram @danielasotoinnes.Follow Rubra on Instagram @rubra.mx.Read about Daniela's colleagues, including 'the Chikis' Valentina and Estefania Brito on the 50 Best website.Read Laura's 2019 interview with Daniela Soto-Innes for 50 Best.About Daniela Soto-Innes: Daniela grew up in Mexico City and moved to Texas at the age of 12, where she was a competitive swimmer until she was 20. But the women in her family gave her a taste for cooking, and at the age of 14 she started working in a restaurant in Houston, then in Mexico City and eventually moving to New York to open Cosme, which entered The World's 50 Best Restaurants list under her leadership. Daniela won the prestigious James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year Award aged just 25, then The World's Best Female Chef Award at 30, and has even cooked for Barack and Michelle Obama. She opens Rubra in Nayarit, Mexico, in 2023.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and Menopause with Dani Binnington, host of the Menopause and Cancer podcast. Dani is a wellness expert and yoga teacher who pivoted after a cancer diagnosis when she was 33, and now helps women as they navigate menopause and perimenopause. In the episode, we talk about weight gain and adapting the way we eat, as well as exercising as our bodies change, genetic mutations and keeping our gut microbiomes happy. Dani also talks about wiener schnitzel, salami sandwiches and her love of chia seeds.Follow Dani on Instagram @healthywholeme.Follow Dani on Facebook @healthywholeme.Listen to The Menopause and Cancer Podcast on Apple Podcasts.Listen to The Menopause and Cancer Podcast on Spotify.Visit Dani's website.About Dani Binnington: Dani is a podcast host, wellness expert, yoga teacher and founder of the Superfood Supper Club. She runs the website Healthy Whole Me, where you can find recipes and book her yoga workshops. Dani was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 33 and was thrown into a surgical menopause when she was 39, so she created a community to talk about the problems and side effects of menopause.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and Social Media with Sara Tasker, a podcaster, photographer and social media expert with a specialism in Instagram. Having built a hugely successful career around Instagram, Sara talks about the pros and cons of the platform, how to build and authentic brand - and how she started out posting pictures of sausages. In the episode, we talk about body image, diet and body positivity, as well as finding a balance between social media and reality, and how Instagram changed Sara's life.Follow Sara on Instagram @me_and_orla.Follow Sara on Twitter @meandorla.Listen to Hashtag Authentic on Apple Podcasts.Read Sara's Substack newsletter, Entre Nous.Buy Sara's book, Hashtag Authentic.Visit Sara's website.About Sara Tasker: Sara hosts the Hashtag Authentic podcast and runs coaching courses including her very own Insta Retreat. She describes herself on her website as 40% photographer, 40% writer, 40% coach and 10% cake. (She admits she's also terrible at maths.) Sara's book, Hashtag Authentic, was published in 2019.Mentioned in this episode:Listen to Investing in yourself with Kimberly Espinel in the Hashtag Authentic podcastAnd here's a recipe for Betty Turpin's Lancashire hotpotAbout the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak about Food and Disability with Chloe Timms, a novelist, podcaster and campaigner who lives with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Chloe is the author of the feminist dystopian novel The Seawomen, as well as the host of Confessions of a Debut Novelist, a brilliant podcast where she interviews first-time authors like myself about their writing process. In the episode, we talk about how Chloe's disability affects her relationship with food, how restaurants can better serve disabled customers, and how fiction can allow us to escape the restrictions of everyday life.Follow Chloe on Instagram @clotimms.Follow Chloe on Twitter @clotimms.Buy The Seawomen on Bookshop.org.Listen to Confessions of a Debut Novelist on Apple Podcasts.Visit Chloe's website.About Chloe Timms: Chloe Timms is a writer from the Kent coast. After a career in teaching, Chloe studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent and won a scholarship for the Faber Academy where she completed their six-month novel writing course. Chloe is passionate about disability rights, having been diagnosed with the condition Spinal Muscular Atrophy at 18 months old, and has campaigned on a number of crucial issues. The Seawomen is her first novel. About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to Charmaine Wilkerson, author of the New York Times bestselling novel Black Cake, about Food and Roots. Black Cake covers California, the Caribbean and the UK, and Charmaine lives in Rome, so she has plenty to say about how food shapes our experiences of settings and helps us to form memories. In the episode, we talk about how food can anchor us and shape our experience of a place, as well as the foods that make us most nostalgic, and the healing power of apple pie.Follow Charmaine on Instagram @charmspen1.Follow Charmaine on Twitter @charmspen1.Buy Black Cake on Bookshop.org.Visit Charmaine's website.About Charmaine Wilkerson: Charmaine is from New York, has lived in Jamaica, and does much of her writing in Italy. Her debut novel Black Cake is a New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna book club pick. A screen series based on the novel is currently under development for Hulu. Charmaine is a former US news and communication professional whose award-winning short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines. Black Cake featured in Barack Obama's 2022 summer reading list.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to Claire Powell, author of the brilliant 2022 debut novel At the Table. Centred around the Maguire family over a series of meals, At the Table follows Nicole and Jamie as they find out their parents are separating and their lives begin to unravel. In the episode, we talk about the politics of family meals, eating during fertility treatment and the joys of a long, boozy lunch (though not at the same time). Follow Claire on Instagram @clairemegpowell. Buy At the Table on Bookshop.org.Visit The Delaunay's website.Visit Buvette's website.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. 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, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.Buy Single Bald Female.Visit Laura's website.Read Laura's 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.