From the makers of QI and No Such Thing As A Fish comes the QI Elves' latest podcast, LUNCHBOX ENVY - adding a generous dollop of bizarre and unusual facts to every meal, from avocado to zabaglione.
Each week QI Elves Jack Chambers and Manu Henriot team up with chef and food writer Rosie MacKean to unpeel the culinary world, one dish or ingredient at a time.
Discover which topping goes great with roasted grasshopper, how your lemons might not be vegan, and why you're probably eating Pringles wrong.
New episode every Monday from wherever you get your podcasts.
Jack is a host of Lunchbox Envy who has researched and written for QI since 2018, but has been a food fanatic for a lot longer. He held his 10th birthday party in Liverpool Street Station - the only place in London with a sushi restaurant - and for his 20th asked for a gold-plated spoon to enjoy ice cream without the taste of stainless steel. His carb rankings: pasta, rice, potatoes, bread.
Manu is an ex-chef who has written an ethnography on professional kitchens. Now she works for QI writing fewer ethnographies and more silly puns. Her favourite word is 'tandsmør', Danish for 'tooth butter' - when butter is spread thick enough to leave bite marks in.
Rosie is an experienced chef, home economist, stylist and all-round culinary expert. Cooking everywhere from Michelin-starred restaurants to film sets, she appears regularly on TV and radio, publishes the weekly newsletter The Dinner Party, and has 120k followers online. Her first book, Good Time Cooking, was published in 2024. At her wedding in Italy she opted for an enormous lasagna instead of a cake.
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With half a billion listens and averaging a million worldwide every week, No Such Thing As A Fish has been one of the UK's most popular podcasts for a decade, consistently in iTunes' top ten. As well as multiple awards from Amazon, Apple, Chortle and Spotify, the gang have spawned three bestselling books, two BBC TV series and - their crowning achievement - an exclusive-to-vinyl podcast recording.
QI (the letters stand for Quite Interesting) is the hugely successful flagship BBC comedy show, currently in its 22nd series, all about the letter V. The entire catalogue of over 300 episodes is on iPlayer, with over 24 million streams. In 2023 QI was nominated for two National Comedy Awards.
The show's writers, known as the QI Elves, have authored 20 books and were regular features on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2. Previous QI shows include The Museum Of Curiosity (Radio 4), The Tournament (BBC One) and Allegedly… The Popbitch Podcast (Audible).
