The Full English

If you know one thing about English food culture it’s probably that it’s riven by class. But what is class? Is class a matter of taste or a matter of wealth, or both? And how do different classes affect contemporary politics?
Lewis speaks to sociologist Dan Evans about his book ‘A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie’.



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And we’re back. After almost two years the Full English podcast is back!
I've been busy writing a book: The Full English: The Ways We Eat and Why is out now with Verso.
We’re kicking off this new season of the podcast with a truly exceptional guest. Fuchsia Dunlop is ‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’; she is a one woman gateway to the infinities of Chinese cuisine and it’s deep traditions of culinary culture.
Her new book Five Tastes: The Magic of Flavour in a Chinese Kitchen is out now with Penguin.


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It's the final episode of the Full English and we're talking about Rick Stein and Keith Floyd, two of the most popular cooks on TV in Britain.

Lewis is speaking to the editor and writer John Merrick. Find his essay on Stein here.

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Fergus Henderson! The man who thirty years ago opened St John and ever since has implored us to eat from "nose to tail".

Lewis Bassett talks to Zoe Williams, columnist at the Guardian newspaper, and Amber Husain, author of Meat Love: An Ideology of The Flesh.

Read Lewis' article on St John here.

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The only person who has sold more books in Britain than Jamie Oliver is J. K. Rowling.

Jamie has been watched and read by millions. His enthusiasm for food is often infectious. His cooking and his campaigning have changed the way we eat.

I'm speaking about Jamie with Rachel Roddy, author of a regular column on Italian food for the Guardian.

We focus mainly on how Jamie, and others, have viewed food in Italy and I ask whether this helps explain why Jamie is often seen by some people as blaming poorer individuals for what he says are bad eating habits.

In this episode we mention Alberto Grandi, Carla Tomasi and Massimo Montanari.

Rachel is the author of An A-Z of Pasta, among other books on food.

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