{"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":"Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballantyne","slug":"bronze-age-food-foodways-with-chris-wakefield-rachel-ballantyne","published_at":"2025-07-30T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/bronze-age-food-foodways-with-chris-wakefield-rachel-ballantyne","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/c25bd700-394b-4b26-8cc8-5ec429620025.mp3","summary":"My guests today are archaeologists Chris Wakefield from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of Cambridge University Rachel Ballantyne from McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and they are here to tell me about an absolutely amazing site close to Peterborough that tell us a huge amount about daily life in a late Bronze Age settlement. Prepare to have your minds blown! We talk about the unique circumstances of how and why the site is so well preserved, kitchen clutter, animal husbandry, querns, frumenty, pike sushi, and whether the English’s love of mustard goes back 3 millennia – among many other things Those listening to the secret podcast: you get 20 minutes of bonus material that includes the importance of foraging, the evidence for fermentation, Bronze Age recipes, the uses of the whole cereal plant and more! To view images of the site and the finds, go to the accompanying post on Neil’s blog. Follow Cambridge Archaeological Unit on Social Media Facebook: @cambridgearchaeologicalunit BlueSky: @cambridgearch.bsky.social Instagram: @cambridgearchaeologicalunit Follow Cambridge University Department of Archaeology on Social Media: Facebook: @archaeologycambridge BlueSky: @cam-archaeology.bsky.social Instagram: @ cambridge_archaeology 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 . 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 virtu…","meta_description":"My guests today are archaeologists Chris Wakefield from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of Cambridge University Rachel Ballantyne from McDonald Institut…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2530,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/episodes/bronze-age-food-foodways-with-chris-wakefield-rachel-ballantyne/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/bronze-age-food-foodways-with-chris-wakefield-rachel-ballantyne.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}