For this episode I speak with food historian Peter Gilchrist, aka Tenement Kitchen about historic grains and Pictish Bannocks.I also speak to Prof Gordon Noble again to must a wee myth about Pictish food.A video version of this episode is available on YouTube and I really recommend watching that to get the Pictish bannock recipe Peter gave to us.
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FOOD EPISODE
In this episode we explore what foods the Picts were eating and speak to food historian Peter Gilchrist, of Tenement Kitchen. Peter gives us insights into the cooking and ingredients they might have been using and what we know for sure they were.Prof Gordon Noble of Aberdeen University, also provides a bit of insight into what the Picts were cooking.Peter has sent us a bannock recipe from Barony Mill in Orkney, a mill which supplies one of the ancient grains the Picts would have been eating. The recipe for 'Pictish Bannocks' is at the end of the episode, I hope you enjoy it and if you make it, let us know how it turned out in the comments!If you'd like to know more about Peter's work, you can find him on Instagram and on his website: Tenement Kitchen – Scottish Folk cookingIf you'd like to know more about Barony Mill and discover other potentially Pictish recipes, you can find their website here: Barony Mill: The World’s Only Mill Dedicated to Grinding Bere.
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MUSIC EPISODE - AUDIO ONLY
In this episode I speak with harpists from Flora and Fauna as well as carnyx maker and player, Samuel Meric.A video version of this episode is available on YouTube and I really recommend watching because, you'll get to see how the carnyx is made and watch Flora and Fauna play.
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Music Episode
In this episode we explore what Pictish music might have sounded like and interview harpists Lucie Hendry and Justyna Krzyzanowska from quartet Flora and Fauna, to get an understanding of what it was to play a Pictish harp. We also interview carnyx maker and player Samuel Meric in France and he shows us how the carnyx was made and how it sounds.To learn more about Flora and Fauna's music you can find them on instagram and bandcamp and their website: https://florafaunasounds.com/ To learn more about Samuel Meric's work, you can also find him on instagram and on his website: https://obradorshop.com/
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EPISODE 1 - AUDIO ONLY
For our first episode we speak with Trustees at Groam House Museum and I head off to Aberdeen University to interview Prof Gordon Noble.A video version of this episode is available on YouTube:https://youtu.be/2D_xKz333MU?si=8-ZkOcWm5ZOO0Qgq
Groam House Museum's Pictish Podcast. Hosted by Scottish storyteller Eileen Budd with sound design by Debbie Armour, this podcast explores the everyday lives of the Pictish people with each episode focussing on a different theme such as music, food, weaving, stone carving and blacksmithing. Each episode combines interviews with academics, historians, blacksmiths, stone carvers, leathercrafters, goldsmiths, musicians and weavers to give us an insight into with the Picts lives would have been like and how they made their art.
This podcast has been made possible by National Lottery Heritage Fund
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