{"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":"Haggis & the First Burns Suppers with Jennie Hood","slug":"haggis-the-first-burns-suppers-with-jennie-hood","published_at":"2026-01-16T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/haggis-the-first-burns-suppers-with-jennie-hood","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/08a5978b-4c4d-408a-8a4e-5a8d572083a1.mp3","summary":"Welcome to the first of a two-part special all about Burns Night. Burns Night, celebrated on Robert Burns’ birthday, 25th January, is a worldwide phenomenon and I wanted to make a couple of episodes focussing upon the night, the haggis, but also the other foods links regarding Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire on 25 January 1759 and he died in Dumfries on 21 July 1796 at just 37 years old. My guest today is food historian Jennie Hood, who has written an excellent article for the most recent edition of food history journal Petit Propos Culinares , entitled ‘A History of Haggis and the Burns Night Tradition’, so she is the perfect person to speak with on this topic. Jennie Hood hails from Ayrshire, just like Robert Burns, and we talk about the origin of Burns Night, but we also talk about the medieval origins of the most important food item on the Burns supper plate – the haggis. Things covered include the first English recipes for haggis, what makes a haggis a haggis (not as easy a thing as you might expect), Burns’s poem Address to a Haggis and what it tells us about haggises in Burns’s day and how the first Burns suppers started and gained such popularity, amongst many other things. Follow Jennie on social media: Threads/Instagram @medievalfoodwithjennie; Bluesky @medievalfoodjennie.bsky.social; Facebook https://www.facebook.com/medievalfoodwithjennie Company of St Margaret , Jennie’s late medieval and renaissance re-enactment group Issue 133 of Petits Propos Culinaires 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 h…","meta_description":"Welcome to the first of a two-part special all about Burns Night. Burns Night, celebrated on Robert Burns’ birthday, 25th January, is a worldwide phenomen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2462,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947/episodes/haggis-the-first-burns-suppers-with-jennie-hood/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/haggis-the-first-burns-suppers-with-jennie-hood.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}