{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/967e26c1-c193-4515-a123-d79245fca658/9454687f-2b50-4e3a-89e4-8e8f59e40d27?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Hoovering - Episode 134: Laura Lexx","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/611f8db54804724774143ef6/611f8e08339e610011ec1f65.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Welcome to&nbsp;HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an&nbsp;interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.</p><p><br></p><p>Comedian and now author Laura Lexx is my guest for this episode. We’re walloping cheese and fine red wine over zoom and talking about everything from spicy adventures, the thrill of trying new things, routines and post-lockdown-bodies.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Everything written below in&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/thehooveringpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CAPITALS</a>&nbsp;is a link to the relevant webpage.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Honourable Mentions/ Links</p><p><br></p><p>Follow&nbsp;<a href=\"https://twitter.com/lauralexx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LAURA LEXX</a>&nbsp;please on social media and you’ll see on there where to buy her brand new book, out now, based on some of the fictional complicated love trysts in her Twitter threads.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Her book is called&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/klopp-actually/laura-lexx/9781529348217?awaid=3787&amp;utm_source=redbr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">KLOPP ACTUALLY</a>&nbsp;(haha) get it now.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>I’m on this great site called&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/thehooveringpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PATREON</a>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Also - if you’d wanted to donate something as a one-off you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https://supporter.acast.com/hoovering\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">DO THAT HERE</a>&nbsp;on the Acast Supporter page thing.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We talked about&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.wellscomfest.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WELLS COMEDY FESTIVAL</a>&nbsp;and we talk about brilliantly funny, kind, people&nbsp;<a href=\"https://twitter.com/brionymaybakes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BRIONY MAY</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https://twitter.com/IamRichWilson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">RICH WILSON</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https://twitter.com/destheray\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">DESIREE BURCH</a></p><p><br></p><p>Her brother’s wine shop is&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.selectedgrapes.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">SELECTED GRAPES</a>&nbsp;in Bridport, Dorset. I also bigged up local farm shop&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.felicitysfarmshop.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FELICITY’S FARM SHOP</a>&nbsp;and not for the first or last time.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you didn’t already know, this is&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.fortnumandmason.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FORTNUM AND MASON</a></p><p><br></p><p>For reference lets compare&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.dr-karg.de/en/products/crispbreads/organic-wholegrain-crispbreads\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">DR KARGS</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.ryvita.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">RYVITA</a></p><p><br></p><p>She’s made me plan to buy&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/River-Cottage-Light-Easy-Healthy/dp/1408853531\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LIGHT AND EASY</a>&nbsp;by Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Laura’s also made me want to eat at exciting&nbsp;<a href=\"https://64degrees.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">64 DEGREES</a>&nbsp;in Brighton</p><p><br></p><p>And yeah, the program I was watching on TV at the time was&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.sky.com/watch/chernobyl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CHERNOBYL</a>. Strikingly brilliant but literally the opposite of comedy.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Lets all go out immediately and...","author_name":"Jessica Fostekew"}