Something to Eat and Something to Read
Something to Eat and Something to Read
Comfort food and the Secret of Cooking
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Comfort food and the Secret of Cooking

Bee Wilson's wonderful The Secret of Cooking and the comfort of repetition, ritual, wooden spoons, cake and care through food.

On comfort food, the power of a wooden spoon, the only diet, rituals, crunch and the things we cook to anchor and soothe. Our book guest this week is The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson.

Cooking is a space in daily life to do something meaningful’ to use your hands and to establish repetitive rituals which mean something to you. It’s a way to recall people you have loved and lost and to be generous to the people who are still here (starting with yourself). It’s a chance to make the next day taste slightly better than the last. I sometimes think this is as close as most of us will ever come to living the dream’. Bee Wilson, The Secret of Cooking.

Show notes, links and more will be sent to our subscribers shortly. We hope you enjoy listening to this episode. And Bee, if you’re listening/reading - thank you for this book.

Germaine and Sophie x

Thank you to our wonderful producer, Kristy Reading, for putting this and every episode together so beautifully.


We acknowledge that the land on which we work and live is the traditional land of the Wiradjuri Nation (Sophie) and the Gadigal of the Eora Nation (Germaine). We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations people.

Discussion about this podcast

Something to Eat and Something to Read
Something to Eat and Something to Read
Something to Eat and Something is a podcast about cooking and reading, and reading about cooking. Hosted by food writer Sophie Hansen and Bibliotherapist/Psychotherapist Germaine Leece; we believe that you should never go anywhere, or for too long, without something to eat and something to read.
So every episode we’re going to dive into a book we’ve both read and talk about the ’shape’ it left on both of us. And because this is a podcast about reading about cooking; these books will all have a strong connection with food (of course). Part two will be the listener letter which we’ll select then read out loud. Germaine will prescribe a book and I’ll recommend a recipe.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy putting it together for you, Sophie and Germaine x