Claire and Colin are joined for this episode with the artist Sandy Christie! After some technical mishaps, the Let Them Eat Books team were able to have not one but two delicious Breakfasts! Recorded at Down the Hatch cafe in South Queensferry. Sandy shares his thoughts on breakfast, his famous Pea-mous recipe, and insights into his artistic practice.

The most important podcast of the day brings you their take on the most important meal of the day! Colin and Claire take on all things breakfast, including discussion of the work of Anthony Capildeo, AA Milne, J R R Tolkien, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth David and Gary Shteyngart! Claire and Colin also disagree over the merits of Hotel Buffets and discuss some of their breakfast haunts from Peebles Hydro in the Borders, Very Bad Hotel in Kaunas, Lake Annecy, Cottonrake Bakery and Eusebi Deli in Glasgow and many more!

The focus of this week’s Side Dish is the legendary cocktail the Piña Colada. Colin and Claire discuss its various origin myths, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Swinging in Waitrose, and even Rupert Holmes’s famous song!

In the second full-length episode, Colin and Claire talk about the place of the pineapple in literary and culinary cultures, with discussion of Gabriel García Márquez‘s novel Love in the Time of Cholera, Clarice Lispector’s short story ‘The Sharing of the Loaves’, Colombian Pop Star Lao Ra, The Dunmore Pineapple, Pineapple Carpaccio, Ham and Pineapple on a pizza and much more!

Co-hosted by Claire Reynolds and Colin Herd, our first “Side Dish” stars the classic pudding Jam Roly Poly. This episode includes discussion of Rivals - the show inspired by Jilly Cooper’s novel of the same name, ‘A Cup of Tea’, the short story by Katherine Mansfield and ‘Strawberries’, the poem by Edwin Morgan.

Claire and Colin talk all things berry in this “berry” entertaining opening show! From pick your own fruit farms to Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, the mythic origins of strawberries and berries in the bathtub, this episode is jam-packed with tart, zingy, delicious fruit!

Theme Tune: Clare Roberts

Editing: Max Parnell