The Hungry Historians
Join Kelly Spring and Matt Phillpott for interviews and conversations with leading writers on the history of food and drink. New episodes fortnightly.
Join Kelly Spring and Matt Phillpott for interviews and conversations with leading writers on the history of food and drink. New episodes fortnightly.
Episodes

Apr 25, 2025
Ghanaian Foodways with Brandi Simpson Miller
Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025
50 min
What are the foodways in Ghana and how has this changed over the last 200 years? In this episode Kelly Spring and Matt Phillpott interview Brandi Simpson Miller about her book Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism (2021).

Mar 27, 2025
Food packaging with Anne Murcott
Mar 27, 2025
Mar 27, 2025
56 min
How does food packaging work? What is its purpose? Is it really all just about marketing or is it there for a reason? In this episode Kelly Spring and Matt Phillpott interview Professor Anne Murcott about her book The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging.

Jan 30, 2025
An Introduction to The Hungry Historians
Jan 30, 2025
Jan 30, 2025
11 min
Are you interested in the history of food? In this introduction, Dr Kelly A. Spring and Dr Matthew Phillpott share their ideas and thoughts about what the study of food history is about and what The Hungry Historians podcast is going to focus on over the coming months.








