Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew

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.

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. 

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

Honourable Mentions/ Links

Follow LAURA LEXX 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. 

Her book is called KLOPP ACTUALLY (haha) get it now. 

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. 

We talked about WELLS COMEDY FESTIVAL and we talk about brilliantly funny, kind, people BRIONY MAY, RICH WILSON and DESIREE BURCH

Her brother’s wine shop is SELECTED GRAPES in Bridport, Dorset. I also bigged up local farm shop FELICITY’S FARM SHOP and not for the first or last time. 

If you didn’t already know, this is FORTNUM AND MASON

For reference lets compare DR KARGS and RYVITA

She’s made me plan to buy LIGHT AND EASY by Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall 

Laura’s also made me want to eat at exciting 64 DEGREES in Brighton

And yeah, the program I was watching on TV at the time was CHERNOBYL. Strikingly brilliant but literally the opposite of comedy. 

Lets all go out immediately and...