Cocktails are not just enjoyed in bars but also at home. Join us, Kelly Spring and Matthew Phillpott, in this week's episode of The Hungry Historians, where we explore the world of the cocktail parlor with Nicola Nice. In 2024, Nicola published The Cocktail Parlor with Countryman Press, and in the episode we discuss the history of cocktails at home, how women are crucial to the development and uses of cocktails, and much more.

You can find out more about Nicola at her website licolanice.com, and on Instagram.

This episode is sponsored by ⁠⁠Bloomsbury Food Library⁠⁠, an essential resource for students, researchers, and scholars studying food, offering the widest-ranging existing collection of food studies content.

In this episode of The Hungry Historians Matthew Phillpott and Kelly Spring interview Eric C. Rath about his book Kanpai: The History of Sake (Reaktion Books, 2025).

Eric brings us into the world of sake, both in Japan and its increasing popularity internationally. You can find out more about Eric C. Rath on his profile page. Kanpai is available from Reakton Books and all good bookshops.

This episode is sponsored by Bloomsbury Food Library, an essential resource for students, researchers, and scholars studying food, offering the widest-ranging existing collection of food studies content.

Welcome to the second episode of season 2 of The Hungry Historians. In this episode Kelly A. Spring and Matt Phillpott interview educator, scholar and creator Marcus Weaver-Hightower about his book Unpacking School Lunch. In this episode we explore the challenges and politics of school lunches, mainly in the US, but also with a quick excursion into the UK system.

You can find out more about Marcus Weaver-Hightower at his ⁠website⁠. Unpacking School Lunch is available from Palgrave Macmillan and all good bookshops.