Podcast appearances and mentions of ella risbridger

Friend of the pod Ella Risbridger joins us for our summer fantasy book club, where we'll be covering Philip Pullman's iconic trilogy His Dark Materials.This week we kick off with the first book of the series: Northern Lights.ALSO - SKIPSHOCK IS OUT TODAY!Head to your local bookshop or order now: https://www.walker.co.uk/9781529507966/skipshock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He's England's answer to Nora Ephron and knows that love is the most important thing in the world - this Christmas special, Caroline and friend of the pod Ella Risbridger dive deep into the world of Richard Curtis and his iconic romcom universe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicola Lamb is a pastry chef and recipe developer based in London. After training in some of London and New York's top bakeries, like Dominique Ansel, Ottolenghi, and Happy Endings, she launched the pop-up bakery lark! and the popular newsletter Kitchen Projects—and now she's written a wonderful debut cookbook, Sift, that's truly the most comprehensive baking book I've read in years. It's so fun to have Nicola on the show to nerd out about pastry process and much more.Also on the show, Matt has a great conversation with Hetal Vasavada discussing her great new cookbook, Desi Bakes: 85 Recipes Bringing the Best of Indian Flavors to Western-Style Desserts.Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple, or star us on Spotify. We'd love to hear from you. MORE FROM NICOLA LAMB & HETAL VASAVADA:Kitchen Projects [Substack]A crash course in better baking: Ella Risbridger meets Nicola Lamb [Financial Times]Badam Burfi Bark [NYT]See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Just a heads up, this episode will make you want to refresh your bra and underwear drawer! We're talking Thingies with Lauren Sherman and Chantal Fernandez, the authors of the smart, compelling, and fast-pased book Selling Sexy: Victoria's Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon. As mentioned, bra and underwear Thingies incoming! Chantal absolutely swears by the Tom Bra from the brand Mary Jo, and Lauren likes bras from Only Hearts, Notori Bliss underwear, and Bombas UItra Stretch Calf Socks. Also, shoutout to Le Bon Shoppe's Her Socks.  Misc. Thingies include Chantal's go-to assassin's pasta and Lauren's rejection of (most) kids' music.  Want more of Lauren and Chantal? Lauren writes Puck's Line Sheet newsletter and hosts the companion podcast Fashion People, and you can find Chantal's writing in The Cut (see: “The Unbranding of Abercrombie”), for starters. Friends, you gotta read Selling Sexy: Victoria's Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon. We are thinking and talking about it a lot, a lot. Finally, for those intrigued by Soupstack, check out Anne Helen Petersen's 3rd annual soup roundup (4th annual coming…sometime, we'd bet?!). Ella Risbridger of You Get In Love And Then is also testing crowdsourced soups, and Becca Freeman shared her favorites too. A few of our own favorites: Ottolenghi's curried lentil, tomato, and coconut, 101 Cookbook's red lentil with lemon, Smitten Kitchen's carrot with miso and sesame, Thomas Keller's butternut squash.  Actually good: Souper Cubes.  Do you have bra and underwear recs we have to know about? Please share them at podcast@athingortwohq.com, @athingortwohq, or our Geneva!   Count on Shopify for all your ecomm needs and get a $1-a-month trial with our link. Treat your teeth well with a Slate Electric Flosser and get 10% off when you use our link. Try L.A. Burdick's delightful and individually handcrafted chocolates (the ghosts, the coffin!). Give your first Moonpig card for FREE with the code ATHINGORTWO.   YAY.

Who would you invite to a dinner party? In The Dinner Table, a delicious collection of great food writing from past and present, talented writer-chefs Kate Young and Ella Risbridger will introduce you to Samuel Pepys on the glories of parmesan, Shirley Jackson on washing up, Katherine Mansfield on party food, Nigella Lawson on mayonnaise, Michelle Zauner on kimchi and a great deal else besides.Buy the book: lrb.me/dinnertablepodFind more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welkom bij aflevering 17 van het eerste echte seizoen van Ballet Kroket! We hebben het over alle dingen waarmee je het leven kunt vieren, versieren en verdiepen, kortom over alles op de lijn van ballet tot kroket. Host Francien Knorringa zag Gerard van Maasakkers repeteren voor zijn nieuwe jubileumprogramma dat vanaf maart te zien is. https://www.gerardvanmaasakkers.com/speellijst.html. Ze laat het liedje De Lucht Zit Nog Vol Dagen horen, tekst en muziek Gerard van Maasakkers, uitvoering De Vaste Mannen, Bron: -I-C-U-B4-T-. https://open.spotify.com/track/0CFUbv9sBMS2l4ulzwKBV1?si=6a1dd3199aa1416a Host Jannekee Kuijper las The Year of Miracles van Ella Risbridger. https://www.amazon.nl/Year-Miracles-Recipes-Growing-English-ebook/dp/B09FPVZ3QG/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_nl_NL=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=3F66007DAAG4U&keywords=the+year+of+miracles&qid=1704798245&sprefix=the+year+of+miracles%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-2 Ze maakt uit dit boek een aangepaste versie van de Kardemombroodjes die erin staan. https://www.balletkroket.nl/recepten Gids Bart Prinsen zag de film Stop Making Sense over The Talking Heads die in een nieuwe versie in de bioscoop draait. https://www.filmladder.nl/film/stop-making-sense-1984 Hij laat twee nummers horen van The Talking Heads. Psycho Killer, bron: Warner Records. https://open.spotify.com/track/7dSCxR4LqkmxoBrq9MzVSD?si=9ac15ea6014f4b4c en Heaven, bron: Warner Records https://open.spotify.com/track/6eO8zOefFD3IKJ7LAyDyTd?si=d9f66fc8f99b4fb3 Gids Rinske Wels zag de Oudejaarsconference Voor Twaalven van Micha Wertheim. https://npo.nl/start/serie/oudejaarsconference/seizoen-1/micha-wertheim-voor-twaalven-oudejaars-2023/afspelen. Ook laat zij een stukje horen van de deleted scenes uit dit programma die op YouTube staan: https://youtu.be/pPnlQWzbIsg?si=fQmSOgqjMSnT5686 Onze adverteerders zijn: Hermit Gin - de lekkerste gin die er is, gemaakt met Oosterscheldewater en nog een trits aan geheime ingrediënten, te koop bij Gall en Gall. www.hermitgin.com Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic, de lekkerste tonic voor de perfect serve van een gin tonic met Hermit Gin. https://fever-tree.com/nl_NL/products/mediterranean-tonic-water De Kookhaven - te gekke locatie aan de rafelrand van Amsterdam, geschikt voor al uw culinaire uitspattingen, van private dining tot kookworkshop, van vergadering tot culinair feestje. Iedereen viert weleens een feestje dat thuis of op kantoor niet past. Bespreek de mogelijkheden met uitbater Dick Ferwerda. www.kookhaven.nl Don Ostra - oestermannen Arend Bouwmeester (de jonge) en Dick Ferwerda serveren oesters en gin op geheel eigen wijze. Voor luisteraars van Ballet Kroket geldt een 99% glimlachgarantie. www.donostra.nl Lone Poulsen, de kok die uit het noorden kwam en private dinings verzorgt in het teken van de nordic cuisine. Kijk op haar website: www.shecamefromnorth.com Adverteren in Ballet Kroket? Mail alles@balletkroket.nl Ballet Kroket wordt op maandagavond opgenomen in Studio Kookhaven in Amsterdam. Wil je een opname bijwonen? Dan krijg je vooraf aan de opname ook een concert van de Ballet Kroket Huisband o.l.v. Arend Bouwmeester en Mathijs Goené, niet zelden ontvangen zij extra special guests. Mail alles@balletkroket.nl Of kijk op onze insta: https://www.instagram.com/balletkroket/ en stuur ons een DM. www.balletkroket.nl

Let's dive into some Hellmann's drama, TSwift x Wordsworth, and lots more re: the secret life of girls (thank you to Wired for the Notes App *respect*!!!).To know Prof. Stephanie Burt is to love Prof. Stephanie Burt—this NYT interview about her Harvard Taylor Swift class will get you there. A fave on the syllabus: Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff.It's pintxo season (we say!). Woldy Kusina shows us how it's done, and Despaña is a great ingredient source. (Also: RIP the Prune Chicago Matchbox Bloody Mary.)Indoor/Outdoor Boyfriends brought to you buy Ella Risbridger's You Get In Love And Then newsletter. (Have you read her book Midnight Chicken?) Did you know Hellmann's mayonnaise is known as something else entirely in parts of the West? Share your thoughts on this revelation at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, or @athingortwohq, and chat it up about anything at all in our Geneva!Get your nails in good shape with Olive & June—20% off your first Mani System with our link.YAY.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are you looking for inspiration to make the next year your best? Librarians Sarah and Meagan discuss “year of” books, or project books that involve making a change over the course of a year. Titles discussed in this episode include: Coop by Michael Perry, Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, The Year of Miracles by Ella Risbridger, The Moneyless Man by Mark Boyle and Year of Yoga by Kassandra Reinhardt. Also mentioned: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver; Population 485 and Truck by Michael Perry; the Lonely Planet guide to Peru; A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg; and Yoga with Adrienne. Check out books and movies at countycat.mcfls.org, wplc.overdrive.com and hoopladigital.com. For more about WAPL, visit westallislibrary.org. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

Last season, we opened the season on Weddings, where we talked about planning, hen parties, dresses and the cultural expectations of being a bride. Now we've had the wedding, what have we *learned*? Maid of Honour and longterm friend of the pod Ella Risbridger comes back to discuss the wins, losses and lessons of...Caroline's wedding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To kick off this cold and dreary month we're reading detective fiction! First up is Inspector Brunswick: The Case of the Missing Eyebrow by Chris Lam Sam and Angela Keoghan. Brunswick and his faithful sidekick Nelson thought they were just going to the art gallery for a nice afternoon out, but crime is afoot! We talked about a few different pieces of performance art and protests in relation to the Missing Eyebrow: the toppling of the Colston statue the Banksy self-destruct painting the Just Stop Oil protest of the Van Gogh painting Doctor Willard Wigan's tiny dinosaur   And our chapter book is the wonderful The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger. On a mail ship from India to England in 1892, Isobel and her first ever friends Sameer and Lettie see someone pushed overboard. But when they go to raise the alarm the next day, nobody will listen because it seems nobody is missing. Will they solve the crime before the ship docks and the murderer gets away?   We talk a lot about Agatha Christie and the golden age tropes with this one, so we can't help but recommend Shedunnit and All About Agatha if you'd like to learn more about those.   We also compare Risbridger's writing to Eva Ibbotson's. You can hear our episode about Journey to the River Sea here.   Nina's new podcast The Podgoblin's Hat is live now and you can listen here.   What A Wonderful Day is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com

Dame Vivienne Westwood died yesterday at the age of 81 but she has been called the ‘undisputed Queen of British Fashion'. She made her name with her controversial punk and new wave styles in the 1970s and went on to dress some of the biggest stars in fashion. She was well known for her androgynous designs, slogan T-shirts and irreverent attitude towards the establishment and would use her platform later to bring the causes she cared about like climate change to the forefront. Barjis Chohan is a fashion designer in London who got her first break fresh out of college working with Dame Vivienne Westwood The multi Bafta-winning BBC drama Happy Valley returns to our screens on New Year's Day. It's a long awaited third series – the first came out in 2014, and the second in 2016. It centres on police Sergeant Catherine Cawood (pron. Kay-ward) - played by Sarah Lancashire - and her family in West Yorkshire and is the brainchild of writer and director Sally Wainwright, whose other TV credits include Last Tango in Halifax, Scott and Bailey and Gentleman Jack. Krupa speaks to Sally, who is considered to be one of our greatest television dramatists. Hundreds of servicewomen have experienced sexual abuse during their training at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, according to Salute Her UK. Their figures show that 177 women have sought help for cases spanning more than 20 years. Paula Edwards, CEO of Salute Her UK discusses the ‘toxic culture' of sexual assault in the military. Salute Her UK is the sister charity of Forward Assist - which supports military veterans struggling to adjust to civilian life. It is the only UK gender-specific support service to offer therapy and interventions for survivors of in-service sexual abuse. Even if you don't know her name, you will almost certainly recognise her face. A former supermodel Czechoslovak-born Paulina Porizkova appeared on the covers of numerous top magazines around the world during the 1980s and 1990s, including Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and Cosmopolitan. In 1988 she became one of the highest-paid models in the world as the face of Estee Lauder. She also acted in many movies and TV shows and was on the judging panel on cycle 10 of America's Next Top Model. Her novel, A model Summer, was published in 2007. She has now written a memoir, No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and The beautiful. 2022 marks thirty years since Queen Elizabeth II used the term annus horribilis (worst year) in her Ruby Jubilee speech to describe a personal low point. As we approach the New Year, some of us may, instead of celebrating, be looking back at our own personal annus horribilis. But how do we cope when all the bad news seems to come at once? And after a worst year, how do we feel hopeful for a better one? Emily Dean is a radio host and author of Everybody Died So I Got A Dog. Ella Risbridger is a food writer whose books describe how she found solace from grief and mental illness through the comfort of cooking. They both join Krupa Padhy to discuss how we can cope with the lowest points in life. Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Barjis Chohan Interviewed Guest: Sally Wainwright Interviewed Guest: Paula Edwards Interviewed Guest: Paulina Porizkova Photographer: Jill Greenberg Interviewed Guest: Ella Risbridger Interviewed Guest: Emily Dean

Welcome to our Christmas special!Also special as we recorded this episode in front of our first audience at the Henley Community Garden with the Gladesville Happy Hens. We hope you enjoy listening to us talk about our book advent (list below) while also prescribing something to eat and something to read for two letter writers. The list of books discussed is below and there will be more information about this and the recipes discussed in the Shownotes.Thank you for listening to us this last year, and we look forward to returning with a Summer special in January. Until then, happy holidays to all.Sophie & Germaine xxWe started our episode by offering a couple of sweet treats taken from books we have both loved and talked about this year. Sophie and Nigel Slater's Christmas CakeIt was always going to be a Christmas cake for me. And always, my favourite recipe by Nigel Slater from the Christmas Chronicles (but also available here online).Germaine and Ella Risbridger's Three Ingredient BrowniesI was intrigued to try such an easy recipe after we read The Year of Miracles: Recipes about Love, Grief and Growing Things in Season 2, Episode 4 so decided to try it. It is easy. And tasty! Simply Nutella, eggs and flour. Here is a similar recipe to Ella's if you haven't read her book. Book List* Advent by Anja Dunk * Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson* Festive Spirits by Kate Atkinson (Lucy's Story)* How to End a Story by Helen Garner* Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling* The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller* The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater* Seeing Other People by Diana Reed* Small Things Like These, Clare Keegan* Overheard: the art of eavesdropping by Oslo Davis* Wombat Divine by Mem Fox* Cooking for Claudine by John BaxterLetter 1Thank you for this! I am emerging from a marriage break up and I need some lightness and happiness in my life. Maybe a bit of courage too.Germaine's book prescriptionMaira Kalman's The Principles of Uncertainty is one of my favourite books that I return to whenever I am feeling in need of a reminder that life always contains lightness alongside the need for courage. Kalman is perhaps best known for her children's book illustrations and as a contributor to the New Yorker magazine, however this illustrated memoir is a different way of reflecting and understanding the meaning of her life. Her quirky illustrations, existential questions and melancholic observations are very powerful. I prescribe it as a completely different way of reading about life. Kalman walks the streets of New York and draws the people she sees. Her daily walks in Central Park with an old friend also impact on her sense of wellbeing. She reminisces about her childhood and the past. It's a visual journey through her mind!Sophie's recipeI think it has to be cake. Specifically, a sponge, though one with structure so it won't deflate on you or be finicky about travelling. Something you can cut and come again and keep in the fridge. Take to work to share, take to a morning tea with your friends. You can't not be cheered by a sponge. And you can take courage that this recipe will work! As Nigel Slater says in Christmas Chronicles, “there was something about the way my mother would put a cake on the table that made me feel all was well. Safe. Secure. Unshakeable'Here's my sponge cake recipe, please try it, fill it with jam, cream, curd, love, whatever you have to hand!Letter 2I am going ‘home' for Christmas for a number of reasons. It may well be our last - or only-  ‘family' holiday with all 6 of us that we will remember, as my eldest is 19 and will be moving on with his life - a fact we celebrate and mourn, and my youngest is 11, and therefore too young to remember our trips before the Covid years.  Included in the trip are 2 weeks in the UK to have our first English Christmas with my family, and our first one all together in 7 years. It is always a little bittersweet without my Dad, whose presence is long missed, but it is definitely a time for celebration.What will make the trip a little more interesting, and is making my mother slightly apprehensive, is a history of tension between my brother and sister - I refuse to get sucked in to any drama and can smooth almost any situation - but I want her to feel excitement and eagerness about spending this time together, so do you have a suggestion for a book that celebrates the joy of family reconnection, or something that will bring light to dark winter evenings? Something fun, but real would be grand. And she is always fond of a murder.In terms of asking for something to cook, I am being held responsible for an Australian style brunch - limited by available ingredients so sadly no mango unless I smuggle them in (which I may), and need something sweet, but light to finish the traditional croissants and smoked salmon, and that won't compete with pavlova and Christmas pudding that will be served after late lunch. Also, my mother loathes cream and milk, unless cooked into a cheese sauce, so yoghurt is out.Hope that's not too prescriptive? I love listening to you both, and hearing your discussions.Sophie's recipeWhat about a warm Christmas crumble? In a medium-sized saucepan, mix together about 2 cups frozen (or fresh berries) with about 2 cups rhubarb, apple or stonefruit (depending on season and taste. Add 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tsp vanilla paste and the juice of one orange or lemon and cook on low heat for about 10 minutes or until the fruit is soft. Transfer to a bowl and pop in the fridge to cool or if cooking the crumble straight away, tip into an oven-proof dish.For the crumble topping, in a medium bowl, combine 50g unsalted butter, cold and cubed, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp vanilla paste, 1/2 cup almond meal, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup rolled oats, 1/4 cup shredded coconut and 200g marzipan. Work everything together with your fingers and crumble together. Preheat oven to 180C and crumble the topping over the layer of fruit and cook for about 20-30 minutes or until the topping is golden. Serve hot with cream, yogurt or ice cream. Germaine's bookI rose to the challenge with this letter and managed to find a book that is about family and reconnection, with humour and depth. Also, there is a missing person! I'll let you discover if it's a murder or just a side mystery… When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman is a family story about bad things happening to good people and good things happening to good people! This is the poignant tale of Ellie and her family from her childhood in the 1960s through to her adulthood in the early 2000s. There is a cast of quirky characters, all damaged and all loveable who feel very real. Winman also writes beautifully about sibling bonds, “I am here but I am not yours”. While the characters (like families) frustrate, make you laugh out loud and also cry, ultimately, they express the love and hope within us all, no matter what has happened.Thank youOur thanks to Emma and her volunteers from the Gladesville Happy Hens for organising our event and for being so generous with her time and energy.As always, thanks to Kristy Reading for producing every episode of our podcast!We acknowledge that the land on which we work and live is the traditional land of the Wiradjuri Nation and Wallumedegal people. These people are the Traditional Custodians of this land and form part of the wider Aboriginal nation known as the Eora Nation. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all First Nations people. Get full access to Something to Eat and Something to Read at somethingtoeatandsomethingtoread.substack.com/subscribe

This one is all about recipes with story arcs, the wonderful writing of Ella Risbridger (her latest book, The Year of Miracles, is our episode's book), finding comfort and consolation in poetry and recipes and reading and eating recommendations to buoy the tired and uninspired.Recipes, links, books and more will be sent to our beloved supporters very soon. Thank you to the growing community who have already signed up to this subscription level (the cost is $5/month). Your support means we can keep recording and writing to you. We so appreciate it.Germaine and Sophie x Get full access to Something to Eat and Something to Read at somethingtoeatandsomethingtoread.substack.com/subscribe

Live at the Royal Horticultural Society's Flowers After Hours at Hampton Court Palace with Ella Risbridger - author of Midnight Chicken and great friend of the podcast - stepping in for an absent Stevie. Tessa and Ella interview Tom Leonard aka Daisy Desire the Drag Queen Gardener about how to garden when you don't live amid rolling fields and meadows.*This episode was recorded outside!Find Daisy on Instagram: @dragqueen_gardenerBuy Ella's new book The Year Of MiraclesSubscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded live at Hampton Court Palace and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson. Be part of the Nobody Panic Patreon gangSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cariad talks to cookbook author, writer + columnist Ella Risbridger about her partner John, who died from cancer when he was just twenty-eight and she was twenty-five. As ever we talk grief, bringing them with you + eating delicious things when you feel crap.You buy Ella's new book, The Year Of Miracles, is available to buy now. You can find more information on her other books here: https://www.ellarisbridger.com. You can follow the Griefcast on Twitter + Instagram @thegriefcast.Griefcast is hosted by Cariad Lloyd, edited by Kate Holland, recorded remotely in Cariad's living room, artwork is by Jayde Perkin and the music is provided by The Glue Ensemble. And remember, you are not alone.Cariad's book, You Are Not Alone, is published by Bloomsbury Tonic and available for pre-order now.https://www.waterstones.com/book/you-are-not-alone/cariad-lloyd/9781526621832Rose D'or Nominee 2019, Podcast of the Year 2018, Best Podcast ARIA's 2018.Apple Podcast Spotlight choice for October 2021"the pandemic's most important podcast" TelegraphSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/griefcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Gilly's talking about The Year of Miracles by Ella Risbridger. Like her first book, Midnight Chicken and other recipes worth living for, it's part memoir, part recipe book and reads like a novel. And despite not meaning to be a book about grief, it's soaked in it. In a good way. Ella describes grief 'like an anvil crashing through the floor revealing a whole new level where you can live', and where she lives is a really interesting place which questions a whole way of being. A fascinating insight into writing, grief and queerness from a writer the critics have called 'the new Nigella'.To get 10% off the Essentials online course that I'm doing over over the next 6 months, go to leithsonline.com/courses/essential-cooking Click ‘enrol' on course page and apply the code: GILLY10 at checkout: And if you fancy a Free Hollandaise mini-course – Sign up for a Workshop account or login at: app.workshop.ws/profile and click ‘Redeem Coupon' on the sidebar and enter code GILLYSGIFT See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My guest today is Ella RisbridgerAuthor, writer and cook , in her own words: sometimes a journalist and other things tooDescribed by The Times as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation", Her debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), was published by Bloomsbury in January 2019 and won praise from Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater and Diana Henry. A cookbook which starts with Ella trying to take her own life. A cookbook about mental health, cookbook about anxiety, a cookbook about life being difficult and complicated and lots of fun and full of brilliant people and brilliant things and terrible things and all of this happening at the same timeIt's about living in london, in your twenties, with an anxiety disorder and being in love and recipesThe one and only Nigella has said: "One of the things that makes Midnight Chicken such a very good book is how hard it is to say exactly what it is. Yes, to be sure, it's a cookbook, but it is also a manual for living and a declaration of hope."---Thank you to our season sponsor Cooks Matches for their support and for helping me to bring the podcast to you each week See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nora Ephron is a writer and filmmaker whose fame was huge in her lifetime and has only snow-balled since her death in 2012. Now that her name is on t-shirts, her novel is an established classic, and she's even the subject of fictional renderings ('sup, Good Girls Revolt), is there more to the Ephron legacy than meets the eye? Caroline and Ella pick through her personal life, victories, failings, and many many famous friendships to get to the bottom of the following question: we LOVE Nora Ephron, but do we like her? Works referencedHeartburn - Nora EphronSister Mother Husband Dog etc - Delia EphronAdventures in the Screen Trade - William GoldmanI Remember Nothing - Nora EphronOn the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols - Richard Cohen Hanging Up - Delia Ephron I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora EphronElla Risbridger is the author of Midnight Chicken, Set Me On Fire and The Secret Detectives Caroline O'Donoghue is the author of Promising Young Women, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, and All Our Hidden GiftsThis is the last episode of the season! Merry Christmas everyone! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Enjoy reading cookbooks for leisure? Why not try a cookbook memoir? Listen in as host Elizabeth and guest Mary discuss their new and old favorites in this genre. Books discussed in this episode are Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl, People Who Love to Eat Are Always the Best People and Other Wisdom by Julia Child, Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food by Ann Hood, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For by Ella Risbridger, Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch by Jake Cohen, Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table by Boris Fishman, Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford, Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang and Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, by Michele Zauner. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

In this episode Irene and Margaux welcome Rhia Cook, founder and editor of Potluck Zine, a magazine about cooking, eating and sharing food.With Rhia, we talked about growing up cooking, being a vegetarian, our love for leftovers, community building over food and what it's like to run a one-woman magazine.You can find Rhia on Instagram at @potluckzine and pre-order the new issue of Potluck Zine here! Remember that 10% of all sales goes to the Trussel Trust and 40% of the sales goes back to the contributors, so it's a fantastic opportunity to support food banks and emerging writers and illustrators. Recommendations from today's episode: Bitter Honey by Letitia Clark (with a special mention to her Eggs in Tomato Sauce with Music Paper Bread) Hoovering, a podcast hosted by Jessica Fostekew Taverna by Georgina Hayden The Roasting Tin cookbook series by Rukmini Iyer Grown Ups by Marian KeyesSorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Midnight Chicken by Ella Risbridger

This week we rave about a brilliant new BBC iPlayer comedy (written by a woman!! No way!!) and contemplate how we'd handle having famous lovers (very well). Elle sings the praises of Swansong by Kerry Andrew and Camilla rambles about recipes worth living for from Ella Risbridger's captivating food memoir Midnight Chicken. There is also a special treat in the form of the worst stanza of poetry ever written. Ever. Follow us on Instagram @prosebeforehoespodcast and Twitter @prose_hoes_pod if you fancy.

BBC News correspondent Sima Kotecha talks to the cook and writer Ella Risbridger about friendship - from declaring someone your best friend after a drunken party to longer term, deeper relationships. Are group friendships better than one on one relationships, and how much can you really depend on friends when the chips are down? Produced by Caitlin Hobbs for BBC Audio in Bristol

Queen of Shops Mary Portas has carved out a role as a retail fixer, style guru and successful broadcaster. She joins Richard and Nikki to discuss her extraordinary career and a new season of On Style, a four-part series on Radio 4 exploring what style means to us and the way we live today. Actor Adrian Dunbar grew up in Northern Ireland and moved to London as a young man to train as an actor in London. His career has included appearances in films My Left Foot and The Crying Game and television programmes such as Cracker and Ashes to Ashes, but most famously, since 2012 Adrian has played Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty. He tells us about his recent trip around his homeland for Adrian Dunbar’s Coastal Ireland. Ella Risbridger is the author of cookbook and memoir Midnight Chicken which chronicles how cooking helped her through an anxiety disorder, depression and bereavement. She shares her favourite recipes from the book and explains how she feels cooking saved her life. When listener Mark Davies’ uncle died last year, he was shocked to discover that he was a secret hoarder. As Mark cleared his house, he found every nook and cranny filled with both mundane and extraordinary objects from apple pips to World War II medals. And we have the Inheritance Tracks of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Producer: Laura Northedge Editor: Eleanor Garland

Charlotte and Steve chat about their current TV obsessions and also reveal a family coincidence! Their first ever guest, Stephen Dunk, reminisces about his AGA childhood memories, the challenges of solid fuel and offers three AGA tips. It's cutting-edge stuff here on Voyage Around My AGA! The cookbook-of-the-week is the outstanding Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) by Ella Risbridger, and the seasonal ingredient is celeriac, with Charlotte offering her fantastic celeriac soup recipe whilst struggling to get through the alphabet….(just listen, it will all make sense!) The pair discuss the lovely and delicate Snowdrop that is currently brightening up our gardens and woodlands and Steve gives a much anticipated update on making marmalade!! Contact us at voyagearoundmyaga@gmail.com, on Facebook or Instagram (Voyage Around My AGA) or on Twitter @agavoyage --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voyagearoundmyaga/message

On this week's episode of The Magic Book Club Podcast, Emma catches up with mistress of suspense, Jane Harper, all the way from Australia. The pair talk true crime, living in Australia throughout a global pandemic, and casting hearthrobs in films... well, if you wrote the book, you would, wouldn't you? And in a beautiful end to January, Emma speaks to the genius behind Midnight Chicken & Other Recipes worth Living For, Ella Risbridger about food love stories and just how she's getting through the start of 2021. Spoiler alert: it may have a lot to do with crumpets. And head to magic.co.uk to get more reading inspiration from our January 2021 picks.

Steve offers an update on marmalade making (not much progress, to be honest!), the pair celebrate Charlotte's birthday and someone has an important announcement! Books discussed include "Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course", Nigella Lawson's "How to Eat" and Ella Risbridger's "Midnight Chicken & other recipes worth living for" and the Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook. Recipes include Spanish Pork with Olives and Creamed Leeks. The seasonal ingredient is Leek and the AGA tip of the week includes Rice! Charlotte talks about her British cut flower business and highlights Hellebores. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/voyagearoundmyaga/message

Philippa interviews C K McDonnell author of Stranger TImes and reviews The Chalet by Catherine Cooper, The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths, The Angel of Whitehall by Lewis Hastings, A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell and Set Me On Fire collated by Ella Risbridger.

This week we are nosing around the bookshelves of the author described as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation" by The Times, the wonderful Ella Risbridger! Ella is the author of Midnight Chicken, called "a manual for living and a declaration of hope" by Nigella Lawson. Ella is also the editor of the poetry anthology Set Me On Fire and her first book for children The Secret Detectives will be released later this year. We talked to her about nourishing poetry, smoking in the bath and why she still has Daisy's copy of Brother of the More Famous Jack.BOOKSDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableElla Risbridger - Midnight ChickenElla Risbridger - Secret DetectivesFrances Hodgson Burnett - Secret GardenElizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet ChroniclesIan McEwan - AtonementSylvia Plath - Bell JarSarra Manning - UnstickyJames Rebanks - English PastoralAda Limon - Bright Dead ThingsHera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay BirdKaveh Akbar - Calling a Wolf a WolfRichard Scott - SohoKayo Chingonyi - KumukandaMorgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than BeyoncéEllen Bass - Human LineGabrielle Calvocoressi - Rocket FantasticMarie Howe - What The Living DoMary Wesley - Camomile LawnMary Wesley - Haphazard HouseMary Wesley - Speaking TermsMary Wesley - Sixth SealMary Wesley - Harnessing PeacocksBarbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous JackDeborah Davis - Party of the CenturyBarbara Trapido -

Merry Christmas everyone! Usually this time of year, you’d be in your childhood bedroom, re-reading the books that got you through primary school. This year, a lot of us can’t go home this Christmas, but there’s still every reason to revisit the books that made life better when you were nine. It might even make life better now? Caroline and occasional co-host Ella Risbridger talk about childhood reading habits, magazines, tough but beautiful Christmases, and why the Secret Garden is the greatest love triangle of all time.We mention:Tom's Midnight GardenCharmed LifeMiss Happiness & Miss FlowerThe Secret GardenBack Homethe "My Story" booksThe Illustrated MumThe Suitcase KidThe Lottie ProjectGoing SoloDanny The Champion of The World& more! Caroline and Ella both have books for younger people coming out next year! Pick up The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger and All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue. See you in 2021! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we're talking about food, friendship and the cult favourite of Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin. Brian Eno once said that everyone who bought The Velvet Underground's first record went on to form a band, and the same can be said of Home Cooking and people who went on to write cookbooks. We talk about recipe writing, the godlike power of food writers, our dowdy twenties, tiny flats, and the uselessness of describing someone as "the new Nora Ephron". Caroline O'Donoghue has two books out, the most recent of which is Scenes of a Graphic Nature and is available in all book shops. Ella Risbridger is the author of Midnight Chicken and Set Me On Fire, as well as a forthcoming children's fiction series The Secret Detectives. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Emily regales us with The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold, and Rebecca shares the story of Ella Risbridger and her anthology Set Me On Fire: A Poem for Every Feeling. We talk about writing to music, a lack of motivation when it comes to finishing scenes, and books we thought we'd love but didn't. Rebecca also tells us about her DMs with Sabrina Benaim!    Our infatuations: The Five: The Untold Lives of Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold Set Me on Fire: A Poem for Every Feeling - Ella Risbridger  I Really Love You - Gibbz Tough to be a Dreamer - Felix Hagan and the Family If the World Was Ending - JP Saxe ft. Julia Michaels  Labyrinthos - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/labyrinthos-tarot-reading/id1155180220   Follow us: infatuatedpodcast@outlook.com Instagram - https://instagram.com/infatuatedpod Twitter - https://twitter.com/infatuatedpod  Emily's Instagram - https://instagram.com/emiloue_  Emily's Twitter - https://twitter.com/emiloue_ Rebecca's Instagram - https://instagram.com/grammour.puss Rebecca's Twitter - https://twitter.com/grammourpuss    Music: https://www.purple-planet.com   

This week we're talking about 1989's smash-hit debut The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. We talk debut novels, immigration literature, why so many women find Amy Tan in their teens, mothers and their daughters, food and how it travels, and why we're still obsessed with Waverly Jong. Lillian Li's "The Love Hate Joy Luck Club” - https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/05/the-love-hate-joy-luck-club/Sentimental Garbage is produced and edited by Caroline O'Donoghue, mixed by Hannah Varrall and hosted by Acast.You can find Caroline's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caroline-ODonoghue/e/B07CR7SFJM?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1588717449&sr=1-1You can find Ella Risbridger's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ella-Risbridger/e/B07KR8NDY8?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1588717479&sr=1-1 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chef London Loy over zijn kookboek Mijn Recepten; kookboekenschrijver en voormalig restaurantcriticus Karin van Munster bespreekt Midnight Chicken van Ella Risbridger en jongste bediende Jannekee Kuijper maakt een gerecht uit dit boek. Presentatie: Petra Possel

This week on the Corona Cast, Caroline and Ella discuss the ultimate smart lady holiday book (she's going to Split) American Wife! American Wife is a 2009 novel inspired by the life of Laura Bush, former First Lady and wife of George Bush junior. Here, we know her as Alice Blackwell. Beginning in the mid-west in the 1950s, we follow Alice from her quiet childhood to the car accident in her teens that killed her first crush and changed her life forever. After becoming a school librarian, she meets Charlie Blackwell at the barbecue of some mutual friends and begins a whirlwind romance that leads to a long marriage, and eventually, the White House. Sentimental Garbage is produced and edited by Caroline O'Donoghue, mixed by Hannah Varrall and hosted by Acast. You can find Caroline's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caroline-ODonoghue/e/B07CR7SFJM?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1588717449&sr=1-1You can find Ella Risbridger's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ella-Risbridger/e/B07KR8NDY8?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1588717479&sr=1-1 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CONTENT WARNING: rape, fat shaming, homophobia, literally all possible triggers a person could have. This week it's another special edition of Sentimental Garbage, where we talk about the novels that are getting us through the corona virus! Today we’re talking about VALLEY OF THE DOLLS by Jacqueline SusannWhen twenty year-old Anne Welles moves from New England to New York in the summer of 1945, she’s pretty enough to be a model but settles for being a secretary at a theatrical agency. Here she meets a host of showbiz characters, including Neely, a vaudevillian teenager; Jennifer North, a starlet fresh from a marriage to an Italian prince; Helen Lawson, an ageing broadway star and Lyon Burke, a wannabe writer who she falls in love with. Over twenty years, the novel covers their rise and fall through show business, as each woman battles with age, men, and their mutual pill addictions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's week two of the Corona Cast, and we're still stuck in our bedrooms. What better time to get into supernatural YA classic, Margaret Mahy's The Changeover? Ella and Caroline talk about going back to adolescence, magical admin, morally ambiguous witches, suburban New Zealand, forgiveness, the extremely good film adaptation, and "changing over" from girl to woman. Caroline O'Donoghue is an author and would like you to pre-order her new book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/9780349009940Ella Risbridger is a cookbook writer and children's author, and would also like if you bought her books: https://www.waterstones.com/books/search/term/ella+risbridger See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to our Corona Cast, a series where I invite my favourite people (mostly Ella) to record remotely on their favourite books, regardless of genre, sentimentality, or garbage-y content. Today, we're doing Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido. Katherine is an eighteen year old first year university student who, after meeting the flamboyant and much older John Millet at a book shop, is asked to join him for a weekend in the country to visit some old friends. When she gets there, she realises that it’s the home of her University professor, Jacob Goldman. What follows is a love story spanning two decades as Katherine attaches herself to various members of the Goldman family, including Jacob’s two sons Roger and Jonathan, as well as his wife, Jane. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

11 cookbooks that inspired us in 2019 according to The Washington Post.Photo credit- Stacy Zarin Goldberg Intro: Welcome to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery by the Book with Suzy Chase. She's just a home cook in New York City, sitting at her dining room table, talking to cookbook authors. Becky Krystal: I'm Becky Krystal. I'm the lead writer for Voraciously at Washington Post. Voraciously is a part of the Washington Post food section where we are aimed at beginner and intermediate cooks. We try to take the mystery out of cooking, teach a lot of basic recipes, interesting recipes, and really try to walk people through all kinds of ingredients and things we think are really helpful to know in the kitchen. Suzy Chase: For more Cookery by the Book, you can follow me on Instagram. If you enjoy this podcast, please be sure to share it with a friend. I'm always looking for new people to enjoy Cookery by the Book. Now, on with the show. So Becky, you're the lead writer for Voraciously at Washington Post Food. How long have you been with the newspaper? Becky Krystal: I've actually been here for 12 years, not the whole time with food. I started out actually writing about TV, which was really fun, and I've kind of been food and food adjacent for the past 10 years, but Voraciously has been my full time gig for about the past two years. I'm actually a home-taught, self-taught cook. I didn't go to culinary school. It's been the school of culinary hard knocks, if you want to call it that, but I've learned a lot and I think everyone else can teach themselves how to cook too.Suzy Chase: I just read an article in Fortune Magazine yesterday that was all about discovering the allure of cookbooks. Why do you love cookbooks? Becky Krystal: I love being inspired by cookbooks, obviously. Of course, making new dishes out of new cookbooks is a very obvious thing to do, but I also just like to read cookbooks, kind of like I do novels, looking at the photos and learning about new ingredients. I think a lot of, actually, my reading is kind of recreational, as opposed to, I'm going to make something out of every book, because I don't necessarily have that kind of time. I love looking at the photos, seeing what other people are doing in terms of art direction in photos because we do a lot of that here at Voraciously, and just learning about ingredients and dishes that I have not cooked before.Suzy Chase: The article in the Washington Post is 11 Cookbooks That Inspired Us In 2019. Each of these 11 cookbooks are handpicked by a staff member. You can read the whole piece over on washingtonpost.com. Could you take us through the process of putting this article together? What was the criteria you had to work with, if any? Becky Krystal: Yeah, it's a very scientific process. Actually it's pretty casual. We had a couple ... We have a weekly staff meeting, and so over the course of a couple then we sort of threw out ideas about what each of us are interested in. Obviously we want to make sure that we don't have a ton of overlap. Not everyone's cooking the same cuisine or not everyone's doing baking books. But really we just talked about books that inspired us, books that we cooked out of, books that we just saved on our desk. That's a major criteria, because we get so many that come and go, and if you have even just held onto a book, of probably hundreds we get a year, that's already a good sign. Yeah, we just all kind of picked one and it ended up working out well. We got a really good diversity of types of food and authors. Suzy Chase: What are some cookbook trends you saw this year? Becky Krystal: It's almost like there are too many trends to be any trends, because there are so many different types of books, and the common themes, there's been a lot of the specialty diets, keto, paleo, gluten-free, vegan, low sugar, stuff like that. Obviously Instant Pot multi-cookers are still a huge powerhouse. I'm just looking at our closet right now and there's Mexican Instant Pot, Mediterranean Instant Pot. Basically any type of Instant Pot is going to be out there. We saw a lot of deeper dives on global cuisines. We featured Island Kitchen, which was about cuisine from some of the Pacific islands, Mexico with Oaxaca, Sichuan food, a lot of immigrant-based cuisines, which are very timely with what's going on in our country. And then a lot of, there are people who are experimenting with more personal and casual approach to recipes and cookbooks, so people are kind of pushing the boundaries.Suzy Chase: Let's go for a few of these cookbooks on the list. First, All About Dinner by Molly Stevens. One thing that makes this cookbook stand out for me is that you get Molly's teacherly voice on the page. It's easy to follow the directions and succeed with every recipe you make of hers. Becky Krystal: Yeah. Molly, I've interviewed Molly a few times for stories and looked over some of her cookbooks, and like you said, she's a great teacher, and not intimidating. She's not going to give you imposter syndrome. She really wants to teach you, and that's what we liked a lot about this cookbook. She has lots of these sidebars where she pulls things out on the side of the page, or she throws in a few pages on perfecting pilaf for example, or boiling rice, or the difference between red and green curry paste. She doesn't want to just throw things at you, she wants you to understand either the ingredients or the methodology. The food in there is really approachable. It's not necessarily overly complicated. It skews a little bit towards comfort, but interesting. There's a pork loin with a miso glaze on there. And my colleague Emily Heil who chose this book, the book got her really into sumac, which is one of my favorite flavors. So you can learn a lot but also make very approachable dinners that you'll probably just keep making over and over again.Suzy Chase: Now to Vietnamese Food Any Day by Andrea Nguyen. I like that Andrea focuses on ingredients that are easily accessible. You don't need to go to the Asian market. Becky Krystal: Yeah, a lot like Molly, Andrea is someone else I've talked to and she also is a really great teacher and, like you said, the accessibility of the ingredients in this book is awesome. Her family came from Vietnam, and when they ended up in California, they obviously didn't have access to the types of ingredients they had where they came from. And so it was this combination of couple hours trip for one big shop, and then we're going to deal with whatever our local grocery store has. Obviously stores have come a long way since Andrea was young, so you walk into Trader Joe's, Safeway, Harris Teeter or whatever your local grocery store, and you're actually going to find probably a lot of Asian ingredients that she would not have been able to find at stores. But even then, she makes some fun and interesting substitutes. She uses French's fried onions, which we all know from that green bean casserole at Thanksgiving instead of fried shallots, which is a popular Asian ingredient, and it's a brilliant swap. She wants to streamline her recipes but not dumb them down, so that obviously get the spirit of Vietnamese food without having to go to a specialty store. Suzy Chase: Milk and Cardamom by Hetal, Hetal? How do you pronounce her name? Becky Krystal: Hetal Vasavada. I haven't actually heard her say it, but.Suzy Chase: Okay, we're going to stick with that one. Now, this was your personal pick. I had never heard of this cookbook before. Why did you pick this one? Becky Krystal: I love to bake. It's really my forte and my passion, and it's just if I have free time, that's really what I want to do. I also absolutely adore Indian food and Indian cuisines, so Indian desserts naturally are of interest to me. Indian desserts are not, you can't just go to the supermarket, so I think they're kind of underappreciated in America still, and people aren't familiar with them, so immediately I was intrigued by that. What I also like about this book is that she gives you both quote-unquote, "Traditional Indian desserts." But she often combines them in interesting ways with American ingredients, or American foods, so it's this cool mashup. She does this peanut ladoo, which an Indian dessert, but she sort of rifts on buckeyes, which are a, Ohio, Midwest staple. So she combines those, she puts pomegranate curd in the brownies. She uses more common Indian spices jaggery in her monkey bread. I just wanted to make everything out of the book, and to me that's always the sign of a book that got my attention. My favorite recipe, and the one that I ended up featuring in the story was a gulab jamun Bundt cake. Gulab jamun is, they're basically fried dough balls, so they're a little bit like donuts, they're smaller than golf balls and they're soaked in this rose and cardamom, this saffron, very aromatic syrup, and formed them into a very classic American Bundt cake. Phenomenal flavor, it's beautiful. It's way more interesting than your typical Bundt cake and people here really went bonkers for it. Suzy Chase: Now, moving onto one of my faves this year, Ruffage by Abra Berens. I call this the vegetable bible. This is the book you need if you have a membership to a CSA or just if you're strolling through your grocery store. Becky Krystal: One of the reasons Matt Brooks, who's the Voraciously editor who picked this book, was he has been a long time CSA member, and of course with CSA it's a little bit like, "We're letting you get what you get and you have to figure out what to do with it." So what's nice, she includes buying information and fridge information, and she really lets the vegetables shine rather than burying them under other ingredients. Suzy Chase: Whole Food Cooking Every Day by Amy Chaplin was another cookbook that I wasn't familiar with this year. What's her take on vegetarian cuisine? Becky Krystal: Joe Yonan, who's a food editor just absolutely raved about this book, and she obviously wants you to focus on eating seasonally. She is really great about offering base recipes that you can riff on, depending on the event, or your taste, or whatever you happen to have on hand. Again, it's gluten-free, it's low refined sugar, but she is not preachy about it. She kind of makes everything feel off the cuff and it's relaxed and she's not making you feel guilty. She just wants you to learn how to cook like this, and make dishes that appeal to you, and that are as close to the original state of the ingredients as possible, so it's kind of refreshing in that way. Suzy Chase: This next cookbook moved me. It's one of my personal favorites this year. I was so happy to see it on the list. It's Midnight Chicken by Ella Risbridger, from the watercolor illustrations in the book, to Ella's stories surrounding despair and mental health, to the homey recipes, it sounds odd just saying it like that, but there's something oddly brilliant about this cookbook. I just loved it. Becky Krystal: Yeah, it's a really good combination of cookbook and memoir. Like I mentioned earlier, it's sort of this less traditional approach to cookbooks and recipes. You mentioned the watercolor paintings, there are no photos, which is really different from a lot of cookbooks you seen now. It really lets you focus on the words and she's very lyrical in her recipe writing. There's a lot of kind of short, almost poetic sentences, and then there's these longer stretches where she's talking about kneading bread and you see the sunshine, and it's beautiful, and it's casual, without being cutesy. It's going to let people feel free to cook and relax and admit that there's a lot of connection between feelings and cooking too. Suzy Chase: What cookbooks are you excited about coming out in 2020?Becky Krystal: Well, I would not be a good employee if I didn't mention Cool Beans by Joe Yonan, the food editor, but I'm actually genuinely excited. I cook a ton of beans, especially now that I have an Instant Pot. I cook beans every week, I love that. I'm really looking forward to Rose's Ice Cream Bliss by Rose Levy Berandbaum, whose books are, I mean they're airtight, so many great recipes and I actually talked to Rose for a story I did on ice cream earlier this year, so I know that she's got some amazing flavors that are going to be in there. Also really excited about Erin McDowell's High book, that's coming out next year. You can see there's a common theme here, I like baking a lot. Erin's an awesome teacher, so smart. One other one I'm really looking forward to is Healthy Indian. If you're a Great British Baking Show fan, you probably remember Chetna who was on the first season it aired in the US. I love her, I think she's so fun, and really nice to see her doing things well beyond baking. And like I said earlier, Indian is one of my favorite cuisines, and I really like eating a lot of vegetarian food, so I think this is one to look out for. Suzy Chase: What can we look forward to with Voraciously in the new year? Becky Krystal: That's a good question. I think maybe we're going to try to do maybe a couple more slightly more involved recipes, not too much. We're in year three and we want to keep giving people the fundamentals of cooking and basic recipes. But I just got an email from a reader who said, "I am on the hunt for the perfect baguette recipe. That could be fun." Give people something that's a little more projecty, but it's still kind of this approachable dish. And yeah, I think I'm going to try to do more of my own recipe development. And it's going to be an unexpected mix I hope. Suzy Chase: Now to my segment called My Favorite Cookbook. What is your all-time favorite cookbook and why? Becky Krystal: You're going to make me choose. That's really hard as someone who collects cookbooks. If I had to, had to, had to pick, I would probably say The Gourmet Cookbook. Actually one of the first cookbooks I owned. It's just a nice all around book, and I think especially for people who haven't cooked a lot, it will encourage you to go a little bit outside of your comfort zone. Suzy Chase: Where can we find you on the web and social media? Becky Krystal: I am at voraciously.com. On Facebook I'm @BeckyKrystal, all one word. And on Instagram I'm @becky.krystal.Suzy Chase: Wonderful. Well thanks Becky for coming on Cookery by the Book Podcast. Becky Krystal: All right, thanks Suzy. Outro: Subscribe over on CookerybytheBook.com, and thanks for listening to the number one cookbook podcast Cookery by the Book.

Nothing says Christmas like freezing to death in your country estate while your sisters commit themselves to fascism and/or Marxist theory! Caroline O'Donoghue and returning guest Ella Risbridger discuss the Mitford sisters, the political climate (yikes) and why we will never stop loving Nancy, Pam, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy MitfordHons & Rebels - Jessica MitfordWait for Me - Deborah DevonshireThe Mitfords: Letters from Six Sisters The Mitford Girls - Mary S LovellCaroline fan-casting the Mitford movie: http://www.workinprowess.com/2015/02/09/dream-casting-the-mitford-sisters-film/?LMCL=uu47bBElla's selection of lines from Wait For Me: https://the-toast.net/2014/10/03/best-sentences-debo-mitfords-wait/ This is the last episode of season four, see you in 2020 for more sentimentality and more garbage! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Regular guest and deep friend of the pod Ella Risbridger is back, but this time to talk about poetry! In her anthology SET ME ON FIRE, Ella gathers some of the best, weirdest, sexiest poetry that she could afford and dedicated it to MEEEE!!!!! We talk about our long and bitter arguments about poetry, why it's such a easy artform to hate, and how you can change your mind about it (especially if school has ruined it for you). We read some our favourites from the book, including Our Love Could Spoil Dinner by Emily Berry, Monica by Hera Lindsay Bird, Mr Darcy by Victoria Chang, Solitude by Franny Choi. It's a break from our usual format, but I think you'll like it! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you want to read about the Tudors, you want to read about the SEXY Tudors, and The Other Boleyn Girl is the sexiest of all. Returning guest and author of Midnight Chicken Ella Risbridger comes by to talk about masque balls, women in history, sexual awakenings, sisters and why historical fiction is so much better when the details of that history are left niiiiiiice and loose. Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast studios, produced by Caroline O'Donoghue and mixed by Hannah Varrall Order Midnight Chicken here: https://amzn.to/2XmvYNjPre-order Ella's poetry anthology here: https://amzn.to/305ZW5a See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Midnight Chicken (& other recipes worth living for.) By Ella Risbridger Intro: Welcome to the Cookery by the Book Podcast with Suzy Chase. She's just a home cook in New York City, sitting at her dining room table, talking to cookbook authors.Ella Risbridger: Hi. I'm Ella Risbridger. I'm the author of Midnight Chicken and Other Recipes Worth Living For. It's out now or very shortly in America and it's been out in the UK since January. It's mostly a cookbook but it's also got a lot of chatting in as well. I'm quite a chatty person.Suzy Chase: One of the things that makes midnight chickens such a very good book is how hard it is to say exactly what it is. Yes, to be sure it's a cookbook, but it's also a manual for living and a declaration of hope. That is a quote from Nigella Lawson. Now did you set out to write a manual for living?Ella Risbridger: I don't think I set out to do anything really. I set out to write a list of recipes, I set out to write ... I suppose I set out to write it more like a diary, the chatting parts I set out to write about what made my life worth living. Because it was a really useful way of reminding myself, this is what's good, this is how it works.Ella Risbridger: I don't think I set out to do it, but I suppose it's always very hard at this end of a project and look back and think, "Well, what did I mean when I started ..." Particularly this project, it's been five years in the making and it's very hard to look back at yourself five years ago and think, "What was I trying to do? What did I want to achieve?" I certainly wanted to make something that reiterated to myself, if nothing else, I guess the value of being alive, the value of keeping going, the value of trying hard every day. But ultimately I wrote the book because I was writing these things down for myself.Suzy Chase: Were you surprised at how much this resonated with people?Ella Risbridger: Yeah, I was really surprised. I think everyone always says that. But I was surprised when I first wrote the blog that people really seem to love it. When it became a book, I thought some people would like it. I was quite like, "Oh, for sure." I think a handful of people were like this. I don't think it will be a terrible failure for Bloomsbury, the publishers.Ella Risbridger: I did not expect this response because it's had, it's hard to talk about your own book, but it's had some really lovely reviews. You read a quote from Nigella Lawson, which I think is every cookbook writer's main dream. And I have been amazed at the number of people who have cared about this book and who have found it useful. I didn't expect the number of stories. I didn't expect to get so many letters and emails and texts and Instagram messages or whatever. To detail all the very complex and very private ways this book has helped people. I didn't expect that. I don't think anyone could, and I think you'd be mad to write a book and think you've done that.Suzy Chase: When I was contacted by your publicist, I said yes immediately, when I heard that this cookbook was a combination and reflection. Talk a bit about the first story you ever wrote, which was about a chicken.Ella Risbridger: So it's very interesting when people ask me this now because it's a story I've told a lot. And when you tell a story a lot, what happens is you don't know whether you remembering what actually happened or your many, many times you told the story. It's very hard for me to know now whether I actually have a memory of this actual chicken or maybe I just have a memory of writing about it.Ella Risbridger: So the first thing I ever wrote about food was a ... actually, the first thing I ever wrote about food on a blog was actually a very long recipe for parsnip soup, which is full of jokes and it was on a different blog of things, on a Tumblr. I've always blogged on the Internet. I'm really an internet person. I grew up with the Internet and writing on the Internet. And I remember that, this is not something I've talked about really in interviews, but I remember writing that recipe for parsnip soup and feeling, "Oh yeah, I like this. I like writing like this."Ella Risbridger: And then I became very anxious and very depressed, which is a big part of the book for people who are listening who haven't read it. It's a brilliant memoir about anxiety and depression, but you don't really know that unless you're looking closely. And I wrote about a roast chicken I'd made one day when I felt particularly unhappy, particularly as if the world was running away from me. And I wrote it, I put it on Twitter as I did put all of my life on Twitter at that point. And yeah, just really took off from there.Suzy Chase: Describe the day after your 21st birthday and the number 25 bus.Ella Risbridger: I'd really rather not.Suzy Chase: Okay.Ella Risbridger: I'm hoping to talk about why not, if that helps. So I don't really know what the American regulations are, but over here we have this organization called the Samaritans, do you have that?Suzy Chase: No. What's that?Ella Risbridger: So the Samaritans is essentially a suicide helpline. You can ring them at any point. I myself have rung them twice. I would say they weren't useful except that I'm still here and you really ring them when you're as low as dead. But they issue these guidelines for how you talk about suicide. And there was something I really considered when I was writing this book. You'll know this, you read it. There's very few details about self harm or about suicide because I don't think it's helpful. It can give people ideas, it can give people inspiration, it can make vulnerable people feel even more vulnerable.Ella Risbridger: Briefly what happened is that after my 21st birthday, I really thought I would kill myself. And I tried and I very luckily failed, and I was taken to hospital and the hospital were fantastic. The NHS were amazing and immediately got me into crisis care, which given that I lived in a very poor, very over worked bit of London. Really, I look back and I'm like, "That was a miracle. That was a complete miracle." You had no right to expect such amazing quick crisis care, but I got it.Ella Risbridger: But I don't like to dwell on the actual suicide attempt in the same way I don't write about self harm because I don't think it's useful. Everyone can imagine that. What I think is helpful is to say, "This is how I got better." I don't think I need to say, "This is what the lowest ebb actually looked like." I would rather just say, "Well, it happened and here's what happened next. Does that make sense?"Suzy Chase: Yeah, and I really think you were brave for talking about that and brave for showing, "Hey, I got through it. I'm on the other side."Ella Risbridger: Thank you. All I can say is that it didn't seem to me brave, it seemed to be necessary. I have always written about things that happened to me and when bad things have happened to me, I've written about them too. Because I am an Instagram generation. I love Instagram. I use it all the time. I did all of my growing up on Twitter, as I think a lot of people did, but I was particularly too much online. And I think probably, because I came from this place where blogging and tweeting and being very open, even though when I obviously first started using social media, I was sort of not under my own name because no one was, everyone just had a username. And I think because I came from this place of talking very openly about it, it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to continue. And the actually being open might be a good thing.Ella Risbridger: We're certainly in a place now where openness about mental health is definitely, at least on paper, very much celebrated. I don't know if it's the case. I think there are probably thousands of people, millions of people, in situations where they can't talk openly about their mental health. Which to me gives me a sense of responsibility in that I can do it. I can do it without threat to my job. I can do it without threat to my relationships. I can talk openly about what it is like to be suicidal, and then I can talk about, 'Well, hey, here is what happens when it got better. Here is what it felt like for me to get better."Ella Risbridger: Something I'm really passionate about talking about now is what recovery looks like and what recovery really feels like.Suzy Chase: This too shall pass.Ella Risbridger: This too shall pass. You know, it's trite. it's a cliche, but it's cliche for a reason. It's something I personally find incredibly helpful, this too shall pass. I think about it all the time. And it does, everything passes. The good things pass, the bad things pass. That's the one inevitable thing is that, well, something else will happen.Suzy Chase: On a lighter note, I love how you believe in bad cooking and experimental cooking and giving it a go cooking. Talk a little bit about that.Ella Risbridger: Oh my God. I think it's the only kind of cooking. I don't think there's any joy to be had in ... Okay, maybe it's fine, follow a recipe, do it perfectly. That's quite nice. But making something, trying something, being like, "Oh, I've seen these things in the supermarket and maybe I'll just Google around and find a recipe. Maybe I'll try this. Maybe I'll try that." I worry that people treat cooking too seriously.Suzy Chase: They do.Ella Risbridger: I worry that they treat ... But then I think people treat making anything very seriously. I think people treat making art seriously. They treat making music seriously. They treat writing seriously, and I think they're meant to be fun. You're meant to just have a go with all of it. It doesn't matter if it's bad.Ella Risbridger: Obviously there are a huge number of people for whom wasting food is an impossible luxury, but they're probably not the people buying my book, to be honest. Because if it's an impossible luxury, you're probably not buying a large hardback cookbook with a million, very beautiful, exquisite watercolors. I didn't do the watercolors, this is why I can be very, very boastful about them. Elisa Cunningham is the illustrator and they are just fantastic.Ella Risbridger: But for most people who are in a position to be buying a cookbook and thinking about that cookbook, the people who tend to get who I think ... You know who it's aimed at? There's certainly the people who I think are most likely to come across my work, are people who have some spare time or they have some spare money and they can afford to relax a little bit about cooking. To try and to play and to see because the worst that happens is you have to get a takeaway. Like the worst that happens is you have toast. You'll live for one meal, you can just eat, you can have toast, it will be fine if it goes wrong. And the thing is it probably won't go that room. The stakes are very low in cooking. It's just food.Suzy Chase: I thought you were going to say the stakes are low for toast.Ella Risbridger: Oh God, I mean the stakes are so low for toast. I mean, I would live off toast. It's a real ... I'm a cookbook writer. I am a cook. I really would just live off toast, Marmite toast is the best food in the world. This is probably not something Americans know about-Suzy Chase: No.Ella Risbridger: ... or care about very much, but it's the dream. It's a very English [crosstalk 00:10:06].Suzy Chase: Toast and butter is our dream over here.Ella Risbridger: You put butter on the toast and then you put a little bit of Marmite. The problem with Marmite is that you put too much on, it's just meant to be like a little savory hint with the butter. Oh, it's dreamy.Suzy Chase: You think breakfast foods are the best foods. Talk about bacon sandwiches with red sauce and sausage sandwiches with brown sauce. Never red. Now what's the red sauce that goes with your bacon sandwiches?Ella Risbridger: Ketchup.Suzy Chase: Oh.Ella Risbridger: [crosstalk] ketchup. Ketchup and brown sauce is HP, which is like a ... It's very hard to explain to Americans. It's like Houses of Parliament sauce. I don't think it's anything to do with Houses of Parliament? It's kind of-Suzy Chase: Like a steak sauce?Ella Risbridger: It's kind of like a Worcester sauce, I guess.Suzy Chase: Okay.Ella Risbridger: It's kind of a little bit like that. Everybody really, I was talking about this with my flatmate this morning because I had a bacon sandwich with ketchup for breakfast because I went to a birthday party yesterday and this morning said, "I'm too fragile. I need a bacon sandwich and a large cup of tea."Ella Risbridger: My flatmate was like, "Oh, why would you put ketchup in a bacon sandwich, that's horrible. Ketchup is for sausage sandwiches." And we realized that everybody has their own complicated, what makes the perfect bacon sandwich, what makes perfect sausage sandwich? I like making very sweeping statements about, "This is what you must do." Because I think that they're so obviously hyperbolic that it really gives people something to push back against and fight against.Ella Risbridger: And I think it's part of the same thing we were just talking about, in not taking things too seriously. When I say, Never red sauce. No nothing, you must never do this." I think it's so obvious to me that it's a bit silly and a bit flipping to anyone would make this kind of sweeping grand statement about a breakfast food. It invites the reader to challenge and to like, "No, that's not what I think at all." And once you're having a friendly fight about ketchup, you're kind of already into relaxing into thinking about food and the way we eat and the way different people eat different things, and the way we have different relationships to authenticity, which is I think a really interesting question. I find the quest for authenticity in food to be one that is enough purist and essentialist view, which is less fun than trying stuff and mixing stuff together and mixing ingredients and seeing what happens.Suzy Chase: I can honestly tell you I've never shed a tear reading a cookbook.Ella Risbridger: A lot of people tell me that.Suzy Chase: Okay.Ella Risbridger: Which is a very weird thing to have. A lot of people tell me they've cried while listening to this podcast ... Not listening to this podcast, so sorry. A lot of people tell me they've cried while reading my book.Suzy Chase: Oh my gosh.Ella Risbridger: It feels like a huge responsibility. I never quite know what to say. People are very invested in a way that I never expected, but it feels very moving. To have all these people who care about me and who also see themselves reflected in, or maybe a way they didn't before. I am not a minority in the publishing industry. I am a white woman who went to a nice school and has anxiety. There are lots of women like me in the publishing industry. But for whatever reason, my story and the story I've told in this book has really struck a chord with lots of people in ways that perhaps other stories haven't.Ella Risbridger: And that feels like a huge responsibility and a huge privilege. And it's not one I take lightly at all. Every time someone shares a story with me about why this book touched them, or why they feel about it the way they do, every time I'm moved. I don't ever take it for granted and I never would.Suzy Chase: So last night I made your recipe for trashy ginger beer chicken on page one oh two. You call this proper grubby food that taste like absolute scandal. You use paper plates and don't try to gussy it up. Describe this dish.Ella Risbridger: It's like a sticky chicken drumstick recipe. It's got sesame seeds in it. It's slightly Chinesey flavors. I guess this is part of [inaudible] I was talking about earlier with authenticity. There's no way that dish is authentic to anyone at all. I got part of it out of a ... I think I got the idea from some Vietnamese chicken wings, but I ended up using ginger beer because my late partner couldn't have any alcohol because he was immune compromised. So I ended up being like, "Oh, ginger beer. That would be better."Ella Risbridger: I just think it tastes like late night chicken for me. I don't know if late night chicken's a thing in America but in London, late night chicken, late night fried chicken is the thing. The chicken shops stay open past everything else and you know you get like the bus home and get some late night chicken and it's so bad but so great.Suzy Chase: Now to my segment called my last meal. What would you have for your last supper?Ella Risbridger: I would have Pho, like the Vietnamese broth with all the noodles and rare beef. And then I would have two pieces of Marmite toast. If that came across as very pat, that's because I was having this conversation on the train on the way in.Suzy Chase: Oh really?Ella Risbridger: Really prepared. Anyway, go on with your question?Suzy Chase: Usually people aren't prepared and they have to him and haw for a few minutes. That was good. You were ready.Ella Risbridger: Straight up, Vietnamese food all the way and then some toast.Suzy Chase: Where can we find you on the web and social media?Ella Risbridger: So my Twitter is @missellabell, M-I-S-S-E-L-L-A-B-E-L-L. I've taken a big step back on being on that. I am on Instagram, which is @ellarisbrigder, I think. Yeah, @ellarisbridger on Instagram, and I do post there sometimes. But I'm really trying to take a step back and I really recommend it even if just for a few weeks. Try it. I can read books again now, which I stopped being able to do for ages. And I'm testing recipes and working on new projects.Suzy Chase: At the end of Midnight Chicken you wrote three last things. Number one, wash up as you go along. Number two, if it smells fine, it's probably fine. And number three, it's probably all going to be fine in the end. Words to live by. Thanks so much, Ella-Ella Risbridger: Words to live by.Suzy Chase: ... for coming on Cookery by the Book Podcast.Ella Risbridger: Thank you so much for having me.Outro: Follow Suzy Chase on Instagram at cookerybythebook, and subscribe at cookerybythebook.com or in Apple podcasts. Thanks for listening to Cookery by the Book Podcast, the only podcast devoted to cookbooks since 2015.

In this episode of Table Talk, Lara and Livvy talk to Ella Risbridger, chef and writer, whose new recipe book is _Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For._ It's part memoir, part cookery; exploring mental health, friendship, love, and the redemptive power of food and cooking. On the podcast, Ella talks about the man that she moved from Dubai to London for, what it's like to be the cover girl of Aga Living (can you tell she grew up with an aga?), and the recipe for the best roast chicken in the world. _Please note that this podcast features a candid discussion of suicide and suicide ideation._ Table Talk is a series of podcasts where celebrity guests talk about their life stories, through the food and drink that have come to define them.

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Another week, another episode of solid gold mouth sounds. The greatest human (or animal) minds throughout time could all get in a room with flowcharts and overhead projectors and abacuses and protractors and whatnot and still not fathom just how it is that James and Sam manage to deliver at this level, with this measure of consistency, this weight of genius ideas and this volume of ghost chat. It's nothing if not flat out impressive. We begin with a bunch of egg chat, Paul Danan's struggle with fame and Sam's struggle with Greggs steakbakes after his band split up. Then, via a detour into a headless purple mule in Brazil, James reads out a letter from a listener concerning, once again, the grim world of toxic restaurant culture. Then cookbook author and writer Ella Risbridger arrives and this triumvirate of mouths spray forth on notebooks, board games, Sylvia Plath's driving license and the rights and wrongs of pickle plates. Ella is learning Hindi, gets some props from Nigella and feels scarecrows are overrated. James considers the fall of Kings Of Leon, collects stranger's shopping lists and has something very erotic, yet creepy, in a place he calls ‘The Naughty Cupboard'. Meanwhile Sam has stolen four pickles from James, is petrified of chip pan fires and seems to be hiding a secret concerning what he gets up to at night in James's house. They go on to discuss mental health struggles, moving on from your old life and whether winning Euromillions would actually make you happy. Oh, and Ella has to choose between having a beak or having gills and Bane might be mentioned too. To be fair it has been a while since they last talked about their favourite big dude with a funny voice. This week's episode is sponsored by the Captain Kirks of the planet of wine dropwine.co.uk and the Captain Jean Luc Picards of the galaxy of vodka ourvodka.com/ourlondon

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Welcome to Sentimental Garbage, a podcast celebrating chick-lit and the so-called guilty pleasures you’re done feeling guilty about.In series 1, author and journalist Caroline O'Donoghue talks to writers Lauren Bravo, Lucy Vine, Ayisha Malik, Ella Risbridger and Helen O'Hara about some of their favourite chick-lit novels, and gets a chance to ask authors Marian Keyes, Eva Rice and Jill Mansell all about their work.Click subscribe now to be the first to hear series 1, launching December 6th 2018.Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.