What We Ate - Trailer - a podcast by Jess Tagg

It all started at Christmas.

Every 23rd of December I make my great-grandmother's Christmas pudding. We used to call her “Old Granny,” probably because as a four year old child who ate cake at her 100th birthday, to me she was “old” granny. The recipe has been made by my gran, my mother and now today, at every Christmas, I make this exact same recipe at my home in London - miles away from the home I grew up in South Africa. It’s made the exact same way she used to make it – and every time I cook it I get that familiar smell of mixed spice entering my kitchen – and it just takes me straight back to when I was young child filled with excitement in the lead up to Christmas.

We all have a dish that takes us back to a special someone or place or time in our lives. Nowadays it’s so easy to just turn to Google if you want to make a dish, we don’t really share and pass on recipes any longer and I think it’s important to remember them because it isn't just the dish we're remembering - it's the memories we're preserving.

The aim of this podcast is to capture just that – the recipes and memories that meant a lot to us.

On each episode my guest will share their dish by either cooking it for me or sometimes I’ll cook along with them.

A couple of characters who will often get mentioned are Sam my husband and our sausage dog Lucille

Please do rate, review and share if you enjoy What We Ate – and of course, if you have a food memory you’d like to share, please drop me a line through the website // whatweate.co.uk or DM the Instagram // @what_we_ate_podcast

These are our memories.

These are our meals.

This is what we ate.

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