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S2E6 B is for Beef Wellington, Brains & Bovril
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- May 14, 2025
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Summary
Welcome to Episode 6 of Season B. The theme is ‘Meat’ and Sam, Neil and Alessandra get beefy with three choice nuggets of fleshy goodness, looking at Beef Wellington, Brains and Bovril. Don’t get the meat sweats! Don’t forget the next episode is the Listeners’ Choice. Please send your suggestions (with a reason why you’ve chosen it) to [email protected] . Your deadline is 21st May! Links & Further Reading Did Sam win the awards for Best Audio at the Fortnum & Mason Awards? Allie will be taking part in the online conference an ONLINE conference on 23rd and 24th August 2025 marking the 100th anniversary of MR James A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories talking about food and the supernatural: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/06/cfp-for-a-warning-to-the-curious-ghostly-supernatural-and-weird-tales/ Follow Serve it Forth history festival on Instagram @serveitforthfest The Leeds Symposium of Food History and Traditions facebook page Beef Wellington Manuale de cuoco e del pasticciere III by Vincenzo Agnoletti (1834) (Italian) Paddington Takes The Test by Michael Bond (1999) Julia Child cooks beef wellington on The French Chef Betty Crocker’s Hostess Cookbook (1967) Irish Traditional Food by Theodora Fitzgibbon (1984) Fashionable food: seven decades of food fads by Sylvia Lovegren, (1995) The French Menu Cookbook by Richard Olney (1970) You can read more about the Waterloo banquets on the Apsley House and Wellington Arch blog here and here . Lines of Wellington trailer Read about how beef wellington was used as a murder weapon in Australia. Brains English Food (Third Edition) by Jane Grigson (1992 The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking by Fergus Henderson (2012) Jane Grigson’s Brains in Black Butter recipe on Neil Cooks Gri…