
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest episodes

Jan 27, 2023 • 40min
Hoovering - Episode 229: Huge Davies
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Featuring brilliant comedian and fellow big fan of eating, HUGE DAVIES. This podcast is largely funded on PATREON where if you join up you’ll have access to masses to exclusive and advance content from guest recipes to personal mentions and one-to-one virtual meet ups with me.Come and see WENCH GET FILMED IN BRISTOL IN MARCH, alongside the incredible JEN BRISTER also filming her epic show The Optimist. Yippppeeeeee.Come and see me HOOVERING LIVE at the Leicester Comedy Festival, at 3pm Saturday 18th February. I’ll also be doing a WORK-IN-PROGRESS there at 6.30pm on Friday 17th.We ate at BONE DADDIES and he also talked about BENIHANA which I’m now determined to do a future hoovering at and get prawns thrown at my mouth. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 13, 2023 • 34min
Hoovering - Episode 228: Luke McQueen
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Featuring mad, brave, beautiful comedian, writer, actor and all round ne of the most creative people I’ve ever met, LUKE MCQUEENThis podcast is largely funded on PATREON where if you join up you’ll have access to masses to exclusive and advance content from guest recipes to personal mentions and one-to-one virtual meet ups with me.Come and see WENCH GET FILMED IN BRISTOL IN MARCH, alongside the incredible JEN BRISTER also filming her epic show The Optimist. Yippppeeeeee.Come and see me HOOVERING LIVE at the Leicester Comedy Festival, at 3pm Saturday 18th February. I’ll also be doing a WORK-IN-PROGRESS there at 6.30pm on Friday 17th.Luke mentioned his disgusting date at DANS LE NOIR and also we ate these dodgy M BERRIESSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 30, 2022 • 48min
Hoovering - Episode 227: Jeanette Thompson-Wessen
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Get on instagram and follow Jeanette THE MINDSET NUTRITIONIST and check out the amazing ALL BODIES RECOVERY that she’s part of the team behind. An incredible initiative to help people in all sorts of marginalised bodies to recover from eating disorders. This podcast is largely funded on PATREON where if you join up you’ll have access to masses to exclusive and advance content from guest recipes to personal mentions and one-to-one virtual meet ups with me.Come and see WENCH London’s SOHO THEATRE from 11th - 14th January! And why not come and see WENCH GET FILMED IN BRISTOL IN MARCH, alongside the incredible JEN BRISTER also filming her epic show The Optimist. Yippppeeeeee.Come and see me HOOVERING LIVE at the Leicester Comedy Festival, at 3pm Saturday 18th February. I’ll also be doing a WORK-IN-PROGRESS there at 6.30pm on Friday 17th.Recipes for what we ate are here: BUTTER BEANS and WHIPPED FETA and the bread and crispy chilli oil were from FOUND HOPE in Hither Green. We also mentioned HEALTH AT EVERY SIZE and the wonderful former guest MOLLY FORBES.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 16, 2022 • 35min
Hoovering - Episode 226: Sara Pascoe
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Featuring one of my oldest friends and national treasure, SARA PASCOE who is ON TOUR NOW. This podcast is largely funded on PATREON where if you join up you’ll have access to masses to exclusive and advance content from guest recipes to personal mentions and one-to-one virtual meet ups with me.After a sell-out tour you can come and see WENCH London’s SOHO THEATRE from 11th - 14th January! And why not come and see WENCH GET FILMED IN BRISTOL IN MARCH, alongside the incredible JEN BRISTER also filming her epic show The Optimist. Yippppeeeeee.Come and see me HOOVERING LIVE at the Leicester Comedy Festival, at 3pm Saturday 18th February. I’ll also be doing a WORK-IN-PROGRESS there at 6.30pm on Friday 17th.Our Christmassy vegan chocolate came from PURE HEAVENLY and CHOCOCOSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 2, 2022 • 33min
Hoovering - Episode 225: Tadiwa Mahlunge
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Featuring TADIWA MAHLUNGE, astronomically fast rising star of the stand up comedy scene. Host, Jessica Fostekew shares food with an interesting soul whilst chewing the fat about chewing the fat. By which I mean eating. We do eating and talk about eating. What’s not to love?! This podcast is largely funded on PATREON where if you join up you’ll have access to masses to exclusive and advance content from guest recipes to live eat-alongs-with Jess.If you missed Wench on tour it’s fine because it’s won an extended run at London’s SOHO THEATRE from 11th - 14th January! And why not come and see WENCH GET FILMED IN BRISTOL IN MARCH, alongside the incredible JEN BRISTER also filming her epic show The Optimist. Yippppeeeeee.Come and see me HOOVERING LIVE at the Leicester Comedy Festival, at 3pm Saturday 18th February. I’ll also be doing a WORK-IN-PROGRESS there at 6.30pm on Friday 17th.Tad and I ate stunning Vietnamese food from BUNBUNBUN in a studio in Dalston. This is MAPUTI and by Mach Fest he meant MACHYNLLETH COMEDY FESTIVAL and he talks about American comedian who meant nothing to me BILL MAHERSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 18, 2022 • 40min
Hoovering - Episode 224: Rebecca May Johnson
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Featuring REBECCA MAY JOHNSON. Writer and author of, I’m going to say it, masterpiece SMALL FIRES (An Epic In The Kitchen)This podcast is largely funded on PATREON where if you join up you’ll have access to masses to exclusive and advance content from guest recipes to live eat-alongs-with Jess.Jess' stand up show WENCH IS ON TOUR NOW. Come to the last two dates in Salisbury and Colchester or come and see it at London’s SOHO THEATRE from 11th - 14th January! Come and see me HOOVERING LIVE at the Leicester Comedy Festival, at 3pm Saturday 18th February. I’ll also be doing a WORK-IN-PROGRESS there at 6.30pm on Friday 17th.She also mentioned activist and writer SILVIA FEDERICIWe spoke of the films THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER and I said about THE DESCENTSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 4, 2022 • 37min
Hoovering - Episode 223: Rachel Parris
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Featuring RACHEL PARRIS, comedian, improviser and actor. Host of LATE NIGHT MASH and star of smash hit AUSTENTATIOUS - which is in London’s West End right now.Every two weeks, Jessica Fostekew shares food with an interesting soul whilst chewing the fat about chewing the fat. By which I mean eating. We do eating and talk about eating. What’s not to love?!This podcast is largely funded on PATREON where if you join up you’ll have access to masses to exclusive and advance content from guest recipes to live eat-alongs-with Jess.Jess' new show WENCH IS ON TOUR NOW. Come! Come and see me HOOVERING LIVE at the Leicester Comedy Festival, at 3pm Saturday 18th February. I’ll also be doing a WORK-IN-PROGRESS there at 6.30pm on Friday 17th.Rachel and I met and put away a Japanese feast in Balham restaurant TARO And we can’t not make a podcast note about BRANSTON PICKLE SMALL CHUNKAnd she mentioned Balham’s MILK and this is a BLACK RICE HORCHATASupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 20, 2022 • 1h 7min
Hoovering - Episode 222: Hoovering's 4th Birthday Meal
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Featuring SIOBHAN MCSWEENEY, TOUSSANT DOUGLAS, FATIHA EL-GHORRI and WILL DUGGAN - this is the Hoovering Podcast’s 4th Birthday Party Special Episode. Host, Jessica Fostekew shares food with an interesting soul or two whilst chewing the fat about chewing the fat. By which I mean eating. They do eating and talk about eating. Or if you will: hoovering. This episode was recorded back in January when the podcast turned four but until now has been exclusively available to the podcasts’ PATRONS - click on the big word PATRONS to find out how to become one too! My new show WENCH IS ON TOUR NOW. Come! Siobhan stars in the absolutely knock-out drama HOLDING available on ITV player click on the word Holding there. And Will Duggan has a podcast with Laura Lexx called NATIONAL TREASURESSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 6, 2022 • 50min
Hoovering - Episode 221: John Kanell (Preppy Kitchen)
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.In this episode I’m hoovering with the amazing mind behind Preppy Kitchen, the utterly charming and seemingly perfect John Kanell. He talks about food in the same way that Disney films talk about love so prepare yourself to have a MASSIVE CRUSH on whatever you’re planning to eat next. He melted my food loving mind-heart. Lucky us. Also his new book is genuinely full of fucking delicious ways of making simple meals a little bit extra jazzy. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksHe is on instagram as PREPPY KITCHEN and this is where to get HIS BOOK Go to PATREON to discover the ever increasingly exciting wonderment that I’ll swap you in exchange for your pennies. My new show WENCH IS ON TOUR NOW. Come! Come and see Hoovering get recorded LIVE AT THE CHEERFUL EARFUL FESTIVAL on Sat 8th October at 1pm. Los Angeles class French restaurant was called L’ORAGERIE but it has closed and the sushi restaurant that was ultra decadent was URASAWA And the wines were a MERCAT and and I was on about this cheap, delicious Portuguese Aldi found ALVARINHOSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 1min
Hoovering - Episode 220: Jonathan Wolf
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.I’m hoovering today with scientist and co-founder of the wildly successful ‘zoe’ programme aimed at designing a personalised set of data about how what we eat effects us, completely uniquely. It’s Jonathan Wolf. We talked over zoom and tried to impress each other with the most ‘gut healthy’ lunches possible. This one, lads, is SO FASCINATING.Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksYou should follow the ZOE NUTRITION instagram and Jonathan hosts a really fascinating PODCAST all about their work and findings and insights as well. Get involved. Go to PATREON to discover the ever increasingly exciting wonderment that I’ll swap you in exchange for your pennies. My new show WENCH IS ON TOUR NOW. Come! Come and see Hoovering get recorded LIVE AT THE CHEERFUL EARFUL FESTIVAL on Sat 8th October at 1pm. Prepare yourself to need a bit of ‘me time’ after trying SAINT AGUR BLUE CREME it is every single bit as absolutely filthy as it soundsSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.