The Good Food Podcast – Felicity Cloake on cycling across America and the perfect brownies

The Good Food Podcast

What happens when a food-obsessed cyclist pedals across the U.S. in search of the real American plate? In this fun and heartfelt episode, food writer Felicity Cloake joins host Samuel Goldsmith to dish on everything from smoky barbecue and spicy dumplings to Midwest lake culture and late-night toast rituals. Felicity shares stories from her latest book Peach Street to Lobster Lane, which chronicles her epic ride from California to Maine, taste-testing her way through Tex-Mex mashups, Amish Southern cooking, and Serbian sausage in Chicago. Expect culinary confessions (spoiler: she once cooked pasta in a kettle), a love letter to buttered toast and an unapologetic ode to trifle. With a side of political observations, dog dinners and a few questionable hot dog contests, this episode is a feast of flavour, culture and laughter. Hit play if you love food, travel and a good story, or just want to know how many hot dogs someone can eat in 10 minutes.

Felicity Cloake is the multi award-winning author of the Guardian's long-running How to Make the Perfect series, the New Statesman's food column and seven books, including One More Croissant for the Road and Red Sauce Brown Sauce, which won the Fortnum and Mason Food Book of the Year award in 2023.

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