Research Librarian Karol Bartlett has pulled together a few Food & Food History themed podcasts to start with. For suggestions on other podcasts that might be of interest, be sure to check out Weekly Charts and Finding New Podcast Resources.
For fans of podcasts, there are also shows that can help you hone your cooking skills, keep up with the latest restaurant news or learn more about the fascinating history behind your favorite foods. Here are the best food podcasts to listen to.
You’ve got the ingredients in and you’ve laid them all out. But cooking alone can feel a little lonely, right? One surefire way to get yourself some artificial (and generally pretty cultured) kitchen company is to whack on a podcast. And since you’ll want to be semi-focused on the cooking, it may help if they’re talking about food. Luckily, there are many funny and fascinating series well up to the job – and we’ve sorted through them all to come up with this list of the very best podcasts that are all about food, glorious food.
This podcast is a longstanding, broadcast with new, weekly episodes and hundreds more in the archive ready for listening. Topics range widely, analyzing the principles of dining alone one week, reflecting on Georgian feasts another, and the perils of being a chef in the Antarctic on yet another. It is educational, entertaining, and consistently fantastic.
This podcast is billed as a show that’s “not for foodies, it’s for eaters.” Winner of the James Beard Award, this program is hosted by Dan Pashman. Every episode explores a different topic of conversation associated with the foods we know and love. For an extra treat, seek out the episodes he does with his mother!
Hidden Kitchens, the duPont-Columbia and James Beard Award winning radio series on
NPR’s Morning Edition, explores the world of unexpected, below the radar cooking,
legendary meals and eating traditions — how communities come together through food.
Hidden Kitchens travels the globe chronicling kitchen cultures, past and present.
The Southern Food Alliance's Gravy podcast is collection of fresh, unexpected, and thought-provoking, stories of the changing American South. It showcases a South that is constantly evolving, with new immigrants, adopting new traditions, and lovingly maintaining old ones. It uses food as a means to explore all of that. It gives voice to the unsung folk who grow, cook, and serve our daily meals.
Why are holiday feasts held in winter around the world? Where did the hamburger really
originate, and why? Culinary historian host Linda Pelaccio, focuses each episode on an
intriguing part of food’s complicated, flavorful past, and fascinating past.
Go beyond the recipe and into the stories, people, and history that make up our joyful and complex relationships with food. Each episode is hosted by Bridget Lancaster. Each week brings something new and unexpected!
Host Margie Nomurat sits down with a wide variety of people (think Jason Atherton AND Joe Wicks) to talk about the five dishes that have most shaped their life. The answers may surprise you!
Co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode every two weeks. Discusses the hidden history and surprising science behind different foods, food history and food science and farming topics.
Research Librarian Karol Bartlett has pulled together a few Food & Food History themed podcasts to start with. For suggestions on other podcasts that might be of interest, be sure to check out Weekly Charts and Finding New Podcast Resources. 
