Dr Dan O’Brien: Death at the Table

Funerary Food, Memory, and the Afterlife: A Curious Appetite with Dr Dan O’Brien What do we eat around death? What has food meant at funerals in the past? And why does something as small and seemingly ordinary as a biscuit carry so much emotional, social, and symbolic weight? In this episode of A Curious Appetite, […]

Mallika Basu: Food, Memory & Meaning

For this episode of A Curious Appetite, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mallika Basu, food writer, broadcaster, and author of In Good Taste: What Shapes What We Eat and Drink and Why It Matters. It was one of those conversations that opens out very quickly from the plate into much wider questions of […]

A Curious Appetite presents Stephen Volk

Welcome to A Curious Appetite with me, Dr Alessandra Pino. In this episode I am delighted to welcome screenwriter and author Stephen Volk, whose work has shaped some of the most memorable supernatural storytelling of the last few decades. Volk’s screenplays include Ken Russell’s Gothic and William Friedkin’s The Guardian, while his television work includes […]

A Curious Appetite with Dr Alessandra Pino

Welcome to A Curious Appetite with Dr Alessandra Pino, a podcast exploring food, culture, memory, and identity, and the stories we tell through what we eat. Each episode brings together writers, chefs, historians and artists to examine how appetite shapes who we are. I started this podcast because my own interests sit across many different […]