A is for Anchovy, Alewife & Avocado

A is for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink

In this episode - the last of the A series! - Alessandra, Neil and Sam take on listeners’ suggestions to create quite the pot pourri mix of anchovies, alewives and avocados.

If you have any suggestions for season ‘B’ let us know! You can find A is for Apple on Instagram and X (Twitter) or email us at [e-mail]

Useful links and things mentioned in the episode

• Neil Buttery, Knead to Know, Icon Books, out this September 2024!
• Fresh, (2022)
• Food Standard Agency Food additives
• British Food: a History, Scotch woodcock
• Marine Conservation Society
• Neil Cooks Grigson, To Make a Nice Whet Before Dinner
• Ortiz anchovies
• Sally Granger , The Story of Garum (2020)
• The Epic of Gilgamesh (c.2150-1400 BCE)
• William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (1594)
• Women in Beer
• Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado (1958)
• Bee Wilson, Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee (2008)
• Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery (1747)
• Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English Housekeeper (1769)
• Judith M Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England (1996)
• William Langland, Piers the Plowman (1887)
• Charlie Taverner, Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London (2023)
• The Tale of Beryn
• Louise Gray, Avocado Anxiety (2023)
• The A-Z of avocado types
• Avocado hand
• Rotten: The Avocado War, Rotten (2018-2019)
• Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (1979)
• Jeff Miller, Avocado – A Global History (2020)
• Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)