Spice Bags
Sometimes the clearest way to see yourself is through a foreigner's eyes. Named after everyone's favorite Chinese-Irish deep-fried drunk snack, Spice Bags is a podcast about food in Ireland and beyond.
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S1 Ep5: Ridiculous Books for Cooks
While everyone's become a pioneer wife, turning to the cookbooks that teach pantry cooking and parsimony, in this episode we celebrate the ridiculous, the aspirational, the esoteric, and the gloriously dated. From the entertaining menus of fabulous interi...
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S1 Ep4: Crisps! A Biography
This episode is all about Ireland's contribution to the world of crisps. For many Irish, the cheese and onion Tayto crisp is the equivalent of Proust's madeleine. As...
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S1 Ep3: An Interview with Domini Kemp
In this episode we interview Dublin-based restaurateur, former Irish Times food columnist, and cookbook writer Domini Kemp. “Forty percent of Irish people were eatin...
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S1 Ep2: Slainte, Stone-Age Style: JP McMahon’s The Irish Cookbook
We talk to Irish chef JP McMahon, author of the ambitious, artfully-produced 500-recipe doorstopper The Irish Cookbook, just out from Phaidon. McMahon’s book tries t...
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S1 Ep1: Beansprouts in Bathtubs: The Chinese Restaurant in Ireland
With many of the Chinese restaurants in Dublin’s unofficial “Chinatown” on Parnell Street shuttered, we‘re talking Chinese.
In this episode, our guest is c...
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Welcome To Spice Bags!
A quick preview of what's to come on Spice Bags: Ireland's relationship with international food and spicy interviews with people from Irish international communities...
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