{"podcast":{"title":"The British Food History Podcast","slug":"the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947","podcast_index_feed_id":4064947,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-british-food-history-podcast/","website_url":"https://the-british-food-history-podcast.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/46b3a185-88cd-474c-800b-370e46b3f8ae/k4a__oz2kGx-D6uH-H_apVRG.jpg","author":"Neil Buttery","episode_count":104,"summary":"Welcome to 'The British Food History Podcast': British food in all its (sometimes gory) glory with Dr. Neil Buttery. He'll be looking in depth at all aspects of food with interviews with special guests, recipes, re-enactments, foraging, trying his hand at traditional techniques, and tracking down forgotten recipes and hyper-regional specialities. He'll also be trying to answer the big question: What makes British food, so...British? This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T04:21:19.371386+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947"},"episode":{"title":"A Rare Early Modern Cheese Manuscript with Alex Bamji","slug":"a-rare-early-modern-cheese-manuscript-with-alex-bamji","published_at":"2025-08-20T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/a-rare-early-modern-cheese-manuscript-with-alex-bamji","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947","url":"https://the-british-food-history-podcast.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4d9282b0-fe13-42d7-8228-ea849756e2b3.mp3","summary":"My guest today is Alex Bamji, Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, and we are talking about a rare treatise on cheese dating from the Early Modern Period. We met up at the Brotherton Library which is home to a fantastic collection of cookery books and manuscripts. We talk about cheese, health and humoral theory; what makes a good cheese; the early modern cheese landscape; cheese as a cure for gout; and cheese haters – plus many other things. Those listening to the secret podcast: Alex and I talk about why cow’s milk is the best milk, and I wonder whether there any clues as to where their microbes are coming from. Follow Alex on Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram @alexbamji Alex’s page on the University of Leeds website Alex’s LinkedIn page The digitised manuscript Ruth Bramley’s transcription A piece from Leeds University about the ‘pamflyt’ featuring Peter Brears The Brotherton Library’s cookery collection Remember: Fruit Pig are sponsoring the 9th season of the podcast and Grant and Matthew are very kindly giving listeners to the podcast a unique special offer 10% off your order until the end of October 2025 – use the offer code Foodhis in the checkout at their online shop, www.fruitpig.co.uk . The Serve it Forth Food History Festival website is now live and tickets are available on Eventbrite. If you can, support the podcast and blogs by becoming a £3 monthly subscriber, and unlock lots of premium content, including bonus blog posts and recipes, access to the easter eggs and the secret podcast, or treat me to a one-off virtual pint or coffee: click here . This episode was mixed and engineered by Thomas Ntinas of the Delicious Legacy podcast . Things mentioned in today’s episode Serve it Forth website Serve it Forth Eventbrite page List…","meta_description":"My guest today is Alex Bamji, Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, and we are talking about a rare treatise on cheese d…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2518,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/episodes/a-rare-early-modern-cheese-manuscript-with-alex-bamji/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/a-rare-early-modern-cheese-manuscript-with-alex-bamji.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}