The Cookbook Circle – Details, episodes & analysis

Thank you so much for listening to this season, we've had so much fun! Hear all our takes in one place in our season wrap up, and we also answer your questions.

See you back here soon. Byeeeeeeee

Theme music: Lovely Swindler - Amaria

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We're finishing off this season with Doma by Spasia Pandora Dinkovski, which introduces us to the world of Balkan food, and frankly, it's seems like our kinda world. Filo pastry, sparkling water and cheese. What more could you want?!

Theme music: Lovely Swindler - Amaria

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Oh, how we love an ultimate episode - and this time, we're taking on some big fluffy American boys (and some pancakes too, oi oi). We took your suggestions for your favourite recipes and put them to the test... it's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

Here are the ones we gave a go:

Julia Turshen's Sour Cream Pancakes: https://juliaturshen.substack.com/p/long-weekend-pancakes

Alison Roman's Buttermilk Pancakes: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018180-perfect-buttermilk-pancakes

Mark Bittman's Everyday Pancakes: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1893-everyday-pancakes

Matty Matheson's Fluffy Pancakes: https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbke93/fluffy-pancakes

Find out which recipes we rated, and let us know: how do you like your pancakes - sweetie, meaty, fat or flat?!

Music:

Lovely Swindler - Amaria

Smith the Mister - Riviera

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Waiting in the queue at to eat at Dishoom would be the perfect place to listen to this bumper episode about the Dishoom cookery book! As Dishoom is one of the most adored restaurants in the UK, we thought we'd tackle this beautiful cookbook (it's also a guide to Bombay!). Tackle being the important word, here. It's quite the journey...

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Music:

Lovely Swindler - Amaria

Smith the Mister

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We're winding down the summer (yes, there is weather chat) with a book we've been so excited to feature - Table for Two. While neither of us quite manage that number for our tables, we still managed to cook lots and, uncharacteristically, have plenty to say....

We also discuss the Stained Page newsletter at the beginning - sign up here.

Music:

Lovely Swindler - Amaria

Smith the Mister

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The Cookbook Circle Goes to Hollywood. ★★★★★

Two plucky podcasters decide to recreate dishes from the movies. What they uncover will change them forever.

Co-starring: emotional monologues about TV shows.

Music:

Lovely Swindler – Amarià

Mitsubachi – Smith the Mister

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In the next of our 'Recommends' episodes, we discuss someone we've mentioned many times before - The Boy Who Bakes, aka Edd Kimber.

We’re discussing THREE of Edd's amazing books: One Tin Bakes, One Tin Bakes Easy and Small Batch Bakes, and yes, we fangirl hard.

Music:

Lovely Swindler – Amarià

Mitsubachi – Smith the Mister

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We have wanted to talk about vintage cookbooks ever since we started The Cookbook Circle so it's a pleasure to bring this episode to you! We hope a few of you have memories of this book, and please let us know what vintage cookbooks bring the nostalgia for you and your family.

Music:

Lovely Swindler – Amarià

Green Tea – Smith the Mister

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We're going to be taking a liiiiitle bit longer between our normal episodes over the summer, so for now please enjoy our minisode about some of our favourite online foodie people. We talk about:

@shebakessourdough

@rocketandsquash

@chetnamakan

@bunchuk

@cloudykitchen

@tiffy.cooks

Music:

Lovely Swindler – Amarià

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Are we feeling salty or sweet...enough? Following our review of her first two books last season (listen if you haven't already!) it's time to revisit one Alison Roman and her new baking book, Sweet Enough, alongside our usual ramblings - this time about nachos, Jake Cohen and whatever else takes our (nothing) fancy.

We also discussed this piece which we LOVE about random foodie combinations, and we'd love to hear yours:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/may/25/ice-cream-with-gherkins-mash-sandwiches-maltesers-in-wine-21-weird-snacks-loved-by-top-chefs

Music:

Lovely Swindler – Amarià

Fluffy – Smith the Mister

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