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Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.


Hoovering’s back on the road, well, I was on tour. So I met up with Glossop based comedian and doer of incredible things mental-health-related, Harriet Dyer. The first time I gigged with Harriet was about 8 or 9 years ago and I remember having to go out of the room and catch my breath from laughing so much, she’s a dreamboat and a whirlwind. We met for lunch in Sheffield at a posh chain place called The Botanist. She’s got a hanging kebab. Hehehe.


Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. 



Honourable Mentions/ Links


First things first BUY HARRIET’S BOOK: BIPOLAR COMEDIAN


And her new community centre with a view to providing support for mental health problems as well as a safe space where anyone is welcome, full of amazing stuff going on is called the UPSTANDING CITIZENS BUREAU and it’s coming soon to Oldham.


Then follow her on TWITTER and INSTAGRAM


I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me keep the podcast not just alive, but also thriving. Thanks so so so much if you’ve become a patron recently and/ or stuck with me since the beginning of this. 


Also - if you’d wanted to donate something as a one-off you can DO THAT HERE on the Acast Supporter page thing. 


Things we mentioned that you might be interested in from this podcast include…


We ate in Sheffield’s THE BOTANIST


The fancy restaurants we could have gone to which all sounded the same are called JORO and DOMO. Haha. They do both look stunning to be fair, another time, please. 

We talked about the following foodstuffs: AUNT BESSIES, drinks by MONSTER and spicy MCSPICY from Macdonalds. 


We talk about the now defunct pub with the best roasts ever apparently, RIP THE WRENS NEST


We talk about the incredible mini-chain of comedy clubs THE STAND


There’s the mightiest Spanish restaurant in Newcastle