Lecker began in 2016 as a space to bring together a love of audio and a love of food. Food media in the UK at the time felt narrowly focused on recipes and restaurants, and Lecker was created as a space where home cooking and the quiet moments of invention in the kitchen could be celebrated just as fervently as fine dining accolades.
Since then, the podcast has evolved from a kitchen conversation series. There’s still the occasional episode capturing the process of a guest preparing a particular dish, with all associated sounds [cumin seeds sizzling in hot oil, kohlrabi being chopped, almonds being skinned one-handed], but you might also encounter a series of experimental short pieces about dining alone, an audio essay about citrus, or limited documentary series about kitchens or food and folklore.
Along the way, Lecker has twice won Podcast of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards and has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, New Statesman, the Sunday Times and Vulture.
Have you ever thought about what you might put on your gravestone? A quote, a poem....a recipe? Rosie Grant, the world's leading expert on gravestone recipes, explains all.
About Rosie Grant:
Rosie Grant is a writer, researcher, and archivist whose work explores the intersections of archives, folklore, and family storytelling. She is the ...
300 Meat Pies and a Michelin Star with Joké Bakare
October 31, 2025
Joké Bakare on Nigerian Food, Michelin Stars and West African Hospitality
Chef Joké Bakare joins Lecker for a live recording at the Festival of Encounters in Brixton - the same neighbourhood where she first emerged from the tube in 1999 to encounter the bright lights of Brixton. From selling 300-400 meat pies every Sunday outside her ...
Anna Ansari on Silk Roads: Tracing Food, Migration and Identity Across Asia
October 17, 2025
Iranian-American writer Anna Ansari joins Lecker to discuss her debut cookbook Silk Roads: A Flavour Odyssey with recipes from Baku to Beijing. Cooking Risotto alla Bukhara in her East London kitchen, we explore how ingredients, people, and culinary traditions have moved along ancient trade routes - and how Anna's own journey from suburban ...
On this month's Lecker Book Club – a regular interview series with authors writing in or adjacent to food culture – All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh.
Ruby’s new book, All Consuming, is really a natural progression in her work: taking the unique position she occupies as both a professional cook and baker but also something of a commentator and ...
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
How can the practice of eating together secure a sustainable future for our kitchens?
In the final episode of the series, Joanne MacInnes and Betul Piyade from the community centre West London ...
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Does it matter what fuels our fire in the kitchen? Javon Bennett explains how his family adapted their cooking when they moved from Jamaica to England, and Carwyn Graves explores open fire cooking ...
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Prefabs – built to help counter the post war housing shortage - were actually some of the earliest examples of fitted kitchens in the UK, and came with built-in fridges at a time when this ...
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Why are so many of our kitchens so unsociable? Lucy meets Johnny Grey, a kitchen designer who’s been fighting for decades to make kitchens a place for leisure not work, and Katie Pennick, a ...
