{"podcast":{"title":"The Curious Bartender Podcast","slug":"the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149","podcast_index_feed_id":7114149,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fdc0f064/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jay--tris","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42472801/42472801-1773661419670-3a72c2eae9738.jpg","author":"Tristan Stephenson","episode_count":86,"summary":"Long-form conversations with the leading minds in drinks, spanning history, science, culture, and craft, with bestselling author and bartender Tristan Stephenson.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T14:20:44.629697+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149"},"episode":{"title":"#81 Valentine Warner - Food & Art, Eating Seasons, Douglas Fir, Cider, Hepple, Nick Strangeway","slug":"81-valentine-warner-food-art-eating-seasons-douglas-fir-cider-hepple-nick-strangeway","published_at":"2026-06-08T06:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149/81-valentine-warner-food-art-eating-seasons-douglas-fir-cider-hepple-nick-strangeway","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jay--tris/episodes/81-Valentine-Warner---Food--Art--Eating-Seasons--Douglas-Fir--Cider--Hepple--Nick-Strangeway-e3keamp","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO3011666690.mp3","summary":"Valentine Warner is a chef, food writer and broadcaster who trained as a portrait painter before swapping the brush for the spoon in the kitchens of Alastair Little. He went on to make his name on BBC2 with What to Eat Now and a run of further series, and is co-founder of the Moorland Spirit Company, the Northumberland distillery behind Hepple Gin, as well as curator of the immersive food-and-craft retreat series Kitchen in the Wild. We talk cider as Britain's lost wine, the chef's view of saké, and the allure of martinis. We dig into a Dorset childhood spent dividing the world into edible and inedible — including the eating of his sister's paints — the lessons of Alastair Little's kitchen, and why he insists he isn't a forager. On Hepple we get the founder's view on Douglas fir, supercritical CO2 extraction, why no one else was using green juniper berries, and what a properly built martini actually requires. We then turn to the closing of the Norwegian chapter and what comes next for Kitchen in the Wild, a portrait of Nick Strangeway, the state of British hospitality, and the in-progress Sketchbook Cookbook. 🍋‍🟩 Fever-Tree - For the very best mixers that taste pretty damn good even by themselves☕ Algebra Drinks - The world's best coffee liqueur (partly because it's low in sugar - get 15% off at http://www.algebradrinks.com with the code CURIOUS15🌾 Belvedere Vodka - Organic vodka, with substance, made from Polish rye and absolutely no additives.🍷 Denver & Liely - The best glassware on the planet - get 15% off at http://www.denverandliely.com with the code CURIOUS15📷 Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tristanstephenson/📚 I've written quite a few books on spirits and cocktails - https://www.thecuriousbartender.com/","meta_description":"Valentine Warner is a chef, food writer and broadcaster who trained as a portrait painter before swapping the brush for the spoon in the kitchens of Alast…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4622,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149/episodes/81-valentine-warner-food-art-eating-seasons-douglas-fir-cider-hepple-nick-strangeway/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149/81-valentine-warner-food-art-eating-seasons-douglas-fir-cider-hepple-nick-strangeway.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}