Tag: Food

  • Welcome to America

    Helpfully for my food show a new restaurant has just opened up in Lincoln. Ribs’n’Bibs wants to bring the American food and dining experiencing to the city. I met up with the manager Adam Wallhead to talk about how they came up with the idea of the restaurant. Also a number of the places I…

  • Deck the halls with bowls of food

    In my head it has been Christmas for a few months because I have been planning the festive edition of Food for Thought. There has been a lot of planning, thinking and editing and I am rather proud of what I created. I know it is only talking about food, but getting so many people…

  • Chocolates and a reason to celebrate

    Some weeks working to get interviews and features for Food for Thought is tough, but somehow this week’s show came together like a dream. A few weekends ago at the Christmas Food and Gift Fair I got chatting to a local chocolatier called Rosella Gugliotta and her business is Okie Coco. While asking her about…

  • Christmas cake conundrum

    It may only be the early days of December but I have started to plan Christmas. This is after months of purposefully ignoring it. Now I have succumbed to the yuletide spirit I am ‘urming’ and ‘ahhing’ over what Christmas cake to make. I am not a fan of the traditional fruit cake, so if…

  • A trip to London’s Borough Market

    This week Food for Thought has travelled to London. The idea is to find food related day trips for the upcoming summer holidays, but I think most people can see through that thinly veiled excuse for a day in London. It all started when Food for Thought regular Sam Pidoux asked me if I had…

  • When food means more than eating

    I use this radio show to find out about some of the best food that Lincoln has to offer. Sometimes though the purpose of a cafe is more than to make good food but also to try and help out others. This is the message of Cafe@Lincs2Nepal and I met up with the owner Garry…

  • Interviewing the Greenhouse Coffee Shop

    In the second episode of Food for Thought I speak to Pauline Moore who runs the Greenhouse Coffee Shop as well as trying out how to make a three course meal that you could try for yourself at home. Listen to this week’s podcast just below: [audio:http://clreid.com/food/FOOD%20FOR%20THOUGHT%20E02%20podcast.mp3] Burton Road, which is just beyond the famous…