{"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":"Derbyshire Oatcakes with Mark Dawson","slug":"derbyshire-oatcakes-with-mark-dawson","published_at":"2025-08-31T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/derbyshire-oatcakes-with-mark-dawson","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/fc530787-661b-4982-840e-8e559292c89e.mp3","summary":"My guest today is Mark Dawson, food historian, specialising in the food of the Tudor period, but also the food of Derbyshire. We met up at Mark’s home in Derbyshire to talk all things Derbyshire oatcakes. Mark and I talk about the oatcakes of Britain, doshens and sprittles, the usefulness of probate inventories, oatcakes as penance, and oatcake goblins – amongst many other things Those listening to the secret podcast can hear about other Derbyshire foods made from oats; a discussion about why oatcake is better than porridge; and I grill Mark on one very important matter: just what is the difference between a Derbyshire and a Staffordshire oatcake. Follow Mark on Instagram @drdobba Mark’s book Lumpy Tums: Derbyshire’s Food & Drink will be published by Amberley in April 2026 Mark’s previous book Plenti and Grase (2009) is published by Prospect Books Mark Dawson’s Food History Pages Mark’s SpeakerNet profile 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 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 Find out more about Joan Thirsk General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire by John Farey (1811) Some of Mark’s research…","meta_description":"My guest today is Mark Dawson, food historian, specialising in the food of the Tudor period, but also the food of Derbyshire. We met up at Mark’s home in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2564,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/episodes/derbyshire-oatcakes-with-mark-dawson/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/derbyshire-oatcakes-with-mark-dawson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}