# S3E5 C is for Caudle, Cider & Cappuccino

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Podcast: [A is for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink-6817931)
Published: 2026-05-18T06:00:00+00:00
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Drink is the theme for this episode! Sam explores the (reputedly) perfect beverage to drink while giving birth. Neil chats to Tom and Lydia from Artistraw who make natural cider and perry. And Allie reveals there is a whole lot more to a cappuccino than a frothy top. You can listen to the latest episode here or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the penultimate episode before our Listener’s Choice finale so don’t forget to send us your suggestions for the culinary ‘C’s that we’ve overlooked and tell us why we should cover them! Sources/Useful Links Early modern stuffed carrots video (from around 29 mins 10 secs) Sam’s cameline sauce post on Substack Caudle Forme of Cury (1390) also don’t forget to check out Jennie Hood’s Substack, Medieval Food with Jennie Giving Birth in Eighteenth Century England by Sarah Fox (2022) Mrs Caudle’s Curtain Lectures by Douglas Jerrold (1866) A New System of Domestic Cookery by Maria Rundell (1806) Liquid Nourishment: Potable Foods and Stimulating Drinks edited by C. Anne Wilson (1993) Cider Artistraw website Follow Artistraw on Instagram @artistrawcider Why is it that some pubs won’t serve ‘snakebite’? Cider Planet by Claude Jolicoeur (2022) Cappuccino Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas (1966) “Deciphering a Meal” by Mary Douglas, in Implicit Meanings (1975) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu (1979) “Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption” by Roland Barthes, in Food and Culture: A Reader edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners by Margaret Visser (1991) Food Is Culture by Massimo Montanari (2006) Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation by Massimo Montanari (2013)…

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