Great British Baking Off to Sleep Facts – Subscriber Summer Bonus From the Vault

Great British Baking Off to Sleep Facts – Subscriber Summer Bonus From the Vault

 

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SCOOTER: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and friends beyond the binary, it’s time for the podcaster who’s very grateful, one, to be here on a regular basis, for your support so I can be here on a regular basis, and for the mission and the honor I have to be able to help take your mind off of stuff and put you to sleep, or if you’re new, to kind of apply for that role. But I’m also curious; how come no one ever says ‘full of gratitude’ when they…people have said I’m full of hot air. I mean, I don't think I’m full of gratitude yet. One day I would like…I would like to be so full of gratitude, it’s overflowing. You say, what’s that coming out of Scoots’ ears? Well, gratigoo. I’m sorry, what are you talking about? ‘Cause I thought…oh yeah, no, you’re right. I’ll get back to the…it’s time for Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep, and here’s a couple ways I’m able to bring you this podcast twice a week.

 

INTRO: [INTRO MUSIC] Hey, are you up all night tossing, turning, mind racing? Trouble getting to sleep? Trouble staying asleep? Well, welcome. This is Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. We do it with a bedtime story. Alls you need to do is get in bed, turn out the lights, and press Play. I’m gonna do the rest. What I’m going to attempt to do is create a safe place where you could set aside whatever’s keeping you awake. It could be thoughts, things on your mind you’re thinking about, feelings, anything coming up for you feeling-wise, emotionally, physical sensations, changes in time or temperature or routine, it could be something else. Whatever it is; it could be any number of things. But whatever it is, I’m here to help, and what I’m gonna do is try to create a safe place.

 

I’ve probably said this; I guess I’m trying to…to speak, but I’m trying to establish a safe place. I know I’ve said ‘pop-up’ before. I guess this would be a bit like a pop-up safe place where you’d say, I’m establishing it here, but I can transfer it or send it to you no problem. No assembly required. The way I do it, the way I send it, is I send my voice across the deep, dark night. I use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, superfluous tangents. So, you say, creaky, dulcet tones, what is that? I say, well, that’s how my voice sounds, a bit like…well, a bit like something you don’t normally hear. You say, well, it’s like a…it’s kinda good and it’s kind of…it’s kind of creaky. You say, okay. For a sleep podcast…you say, okay, yeah, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders…what are those?

 

Well, he never gets to the point, the person that makes the podcast. Or, as he’s trying to make a point, he goes off on a pointless meander or a superfluous tangent. So, those are some of the techniques I use as I try to establish this safe place. Now, if you’re new, a few things you should know…did I forget…? What I’m gonna try to do is create a safe place where you could set aside…send my voice…no, I think I got everything of the regular intro. Regular listeners, welcome back. As usual, I’m mixed up. But what I’m…oh, so, what I’m gonna do, if you’re new…let me tell you a couple things because, one — and I’ve heard this hundreds and hundreds of thousands of times — this podcast does not work for everybody, but also, for the people it works for, it takes two or three tries.

 

So, I just want you to know that upfront, and the reason I explain it so many…every episode is to, one, meet your doubt or your skepticism or your uncomfortableness where you are and say, well, that’s legitimate to be doubtful or skeptical or say, I don't know about this sleep podcast and your creaky, dulcet tones. That’s a totally legitimate way to feel. The only thing I can tell you is just see how it goes, but see how it goes…a few tries, 'cause usually on the first try, this podcast makes…somehow it has to make even less sense before it makes no sense at all, and I’ll explain that more. But give it a few tries if you can, but also know it just doesn't work for everybody. But that’s why it’s free, too. You say, okay, I tried it a few times; it didn’t work.

 

But in the end, the people that it worked for, they say around two or three tries…they say, holy moly, I just woke up. So, give it a few tries. That’s one thing to know. The second thing to know is if you…as you try it out, kinda try it loosely, like a robe. There are robes that are tight-fitting and form-fitting robes, and I’ve talked about robes on the show before. I think one time I…this has been a while, but I imagined that Obi-Wan Kenobi and maybe Jean-Luc Picard went to a colony where you…where clothing’s optional. Oh no; it was Doc Brown, I guess, from…what’s that? Back to the Future. He said, where…robes? Where we’re going, we don’t need any robes. So, those would…those…you wouldn't have any. But so, you wear a robe…or loosely wear a garment; that’s actually…I think that’s in a parable.

 

This podcast is best barely worn. You say, well, it’s more draped over my shoulder, like when I’m cooking or something and I need a extra cooking thingamajig, a towel. You say, okay, so, most podcasts are like an outfit, you’re saying, Scoots. Well, some podcasts are, or a…some podcasts you wear for pleasure, some podcasts you wear for laughs, some podcasts are functional. I mean, there’s definitely podcasts that are super stylish. So, yeah, and this podcast is more like…yeah, like something over the shoulder. Yeah, like a kitchen towel or a rag you throw over your shoulder. That’s what Sleep With Me is. You say, could you complete that metaphor? I say, I don't know. I might try later, but I was trying to explain to the new listener to just kinda do that. Like, say, okay, I’m barely listening.

 

This is the one podcast…as compared to the outfit-based podcasts or the outfit analogy, you barely listen to this podcast. You only kinda listen. You say, uh-huh, uh-huh. Oh, I forgot I had a kitchen towel over my shoulder. How did I end up at a…what is this, a Michelin five-star restaurant? Oh, there’s only four stars? Oh. I don't know. Oh, it’s a dream. Great. So, that’s one thing, barely listen to this show. The other thing is this podcast really isn't here to put you to sleep. It’s here to keep you company as you fall asleep or to keep you company if you can't sleep. I’m here. I’m your bore-friend. I’m your bore-bud. I’m your bore-bae. I’m your…ideally one day I’ll be your bore-bestie. So, I’m here to take your mind off of stuff as you drift off and just be at your bedside telling you a story you don’t need to listen to.

 

Now, if you can't sleep, I’ll be here to the end, or if you wake up. So, it’s kinda like I’m telling you the story whether you’re awake or asleep. But I make this show just as much for the people that can't sleep as the people that are sound asleep already right now. The nice thing is the episodes are an hour, so you have plenty of time to get comfortable and drift off. That leads into kinda the next thing that can throw new listeners off, which is the structure of the show. The show starts off with a greeting 'cause I want everybody to know they’re welcome and they’re important here; ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and friends beyond the binary, and then there’s business. That’s how we bring you the podcast twice a week. There’s a few minutes of business there, then there’s an intro.

 

The intro is pretty long, twelve to eighteen minutes or so, and it’s me introducing the podcast as I’m doing right now. For the new listener, you could say, you’re gonna introduce the podcast for twelve to eighteen minutes? I say, yeah, it takes me a while to get going, and then I don't go anywhere. So, for the new listener, it’s also an example of the podcast. I mean, that’s a bit meta. But for a regular listener, there’s a lot of options. As you become a regular listener…some listeners fall asleep during the intro, some listeners start the intro while they’re getting ready for bed or doing their brushing and their skincare or stretching or foam-rolling or they’re using one of those Therabody devices, whatever it is. So, some listeners start the intro before they get into bed; that’s what I’m saying.

 

Then other listeners start the podcast while they’re in bed unwinding and getting comfortable. So, the intro kinda serves as a buffer between waking life and sleep so that you can wind down and I can buff, buff, buff that day right out of your hair or right out…I can help you drift away. So, it just gives us some space. So, that’s a part of the intro, is just to ease you into bedtime. Then after the intro is some sponsors’ ads. That’s part of the podcast structure. Then there will be a story. Tonight will be our…a new series we’re covering, GBB, Great British Bake Off, so I’ll be excited to talk about that. Then there will be some thank-yous and goodnights at the end. So, that’s the structure of the show, and what else do you need to know? You probably need to know some more stuff that I forgot. Structure of the show…hm.

 

Oh boy, I already got mixed up. Oh, that’s the structure…oh, why do I make the show? Well, I make the show because you deserve a good night's sleep. That’s reason one. I truly believe you deserve a safe place where you can get some rest so that your life is a little bit better, more manageable, and ideally, you can flourish. So, that is…that’s one thing. The other thing is because I’ve been there. I know how it feels tossing and turning, waking up, all that stuff. I’ve been there, needing to buffer my day away. I’ve been buffering about my day, you know? So, that’s the whole thing, is…I guess…what was…? I don't know if I had another point in there. But you deserve a good night's sleep, I’ve been there, and I think that’s it.

 

I mean, I said it at the beginning of the show; I’m really grateful that I get to make this podcast 'cause…yeah, 'cause I can relate and because I think it’s important. I think you getting the rest you need is important, and, in a broader sense, you having the options to see what’s gonna work for you to fall asleep and establish a healthy bedtime routine is important whether it’s this podcast or a fan or another piece of sleep audio or just doing something else, some other routine. That is very important to me because…and I’m very grateful that I can provide this…or be a stepping stone. I’m the…what is…has that ever…? I’ve probably talked about that, The Grateful Stepping Stone. So many people stepped on me on their way to good sleep, and I had so much joy.

 

Some people stuck around and danced on me in the middle of the stream that I was in, and that really felt nice, too, and that’s really what it feels like to make the show. I don't know if you get the…it’s cool. I’m glamor…you say, who was the first person to glamorize stepping stones? I say, well, there was a few architects and landscape…no, no, no, I mean like in a Hollywood sense. Oh, that really glamorized…? Yeah, no, no, the life of a stepping stone. They kind of anthromoporphized it or whatever. You know, personified it. Oh, it really gave that Hollywood glamor to stepping stones but not the actual, physical stepping stones? Yeah, it glamorized life as stepping stone. I don't think there was anybody that would do that. That just doesn't seem…well, actually, there was someone. He tried. Scooter was his name.

 

He wrote the imaginary book in his mind, The Grateful Stepping Stone, and on one podcast episode out of like, eight thousand, he tried to glamorize stepping stones. Then he forgot about it for twelve years ‘til he tried to write the book, and that…so, that’s why I do what I do and why I’m full of gratitude, though I forget it a lot of times. You fill me up with gratitude, believe it or not, and hopefully I fill up your ears with nonsense and pointless meanders. What a deal, right? So, I’m here to help. If you’re new, just give the show a few tries. I hope I can help you. I’m really glad you’re here. I really appreciate your time. I work very hard, I yearn and I strive, and I want to help you fall asleep. Thanks again, and here’s a couple of ways we’re able to bring this podcast twice a week.

 

Alright everybody, it’s Scoots here, and…hey, patrons. This may sound a little bit different. I’m just in a different location here, where…and…but I’m gonna record every episode on the same mic, or the other episode you’re listening to. I’m coming to you live from my coworking space. I wonder what the person in the office next to me is thinking if they can hear me. Probably they can't, but…we’re gonna be covering Episode 2…you may hear this first. I think you will, 'cause this is the first time I’m doing this, and even though we’re talking about Episode 2, Series 8, Collection 5…yeah, I think we’ll see how it goes. This is a patron-only show, Facts Behind the Bake Off, and, yeah, let’s get into it. We’re talking about…well, let’s talk about Series 8. It was…came…it began on the 29th of August, 2017.

 

It was the first one on Channel 4 after Love Productions moved the show. It was the first series for Noel and Sandi and Prue. I knew it was Prue’s first season. I didn’t realize it was Noel and Sandi’s first season. Also, unfortunately I got spoiled, but…'cause I didn’t know who won, but that’s fine. So…okay, so, let’s do some stuff. I looked up first…the first thing I looked up from Episode 2 was ‘Zumba’. So…and the reason I looked up ‘Zumba’ is 'cause my…well, wait one second. Let me just see if I can go to Episode 2. Okay, no. But, yeah, so…Yan’s wife does Zumba, and Zumba, according to Wikipedia, was created in the 1990s in Colombia by Beto Perez. I actually had a friend named Beto, Alberto. Or, well, actually, no; we called him Berto. I think there was a Beto, though. Okay, but it’s trademarked, so we should say that.

 

But yeah, it was created in the nineties. I would have thought it was around even longer. According to the Wikipedia article I forgot to bring…Perez forgot to bring their music to their aerobics class, and they happened to have tapes of some Latin dance music, salsa and merengue, and they danced to them instead, and later was teaching it as rumbacize. Rumbacize…rumbacize, probably. Zumba, rumba…isn't the thing that vacuums your floor…is a roomba, too…then partnered with some other business people, released a series of fitness videos sold by an infomercial, and then some companies invested and expanded into class instruction. According to Perlman, there were more than…in 2012, 14 million Zumba students in 186 countries. Zumba has several meanings in Castillan and Latin-American Spanish.

 

According to [inaudible]…expressly created as a brand name. If you…rumbacize, though, is a portmanteau, so, shout-out to Helen Z. Rumba and Jazzercise is rumbacize, which is kinda like a party version of Jazzercise. There’s sixteen core steps, four basic rhythms; salsa, reggaeton, merengue, and cumbia, and each basic rhythm has four core steps. The classes are about an hour long. Let’s see, it’s a total body cardio, an aerobic workout. You can burn…well, let’s not get into the actual facts because it has different options. You can do it at all ages, zero to one hundred. I don't know if anybody can…zero…that’s zero years old could do anything. Rumbacize…they could listen. Of course, as all exercise, it has a lot of benefits.

 

The annual Zincon, Z-I-N con, takes place in the US where Zumba structures from all over the…Zumba instructors come by. There was a Zumba cruise in 2016, and there was a Zumba Academy. They have Zumba apparel, Zumba video games…so, that’s a little bit about Zumba. What about ‘wheelbarrow’? ‘Wheelbarrow’ is one word, according to Wikipedia. I thought it was two, so…there’s also a robot — according to Wikipedia — wheelbarrow. A wheelbarrow is a small, hand-propelled vehicle, usually just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person — two handles at the rear — or by sail to push the ancient wheelbarrow by wind. The term ‘wheelbarrow’ is made from two words, wheel and barrow. A barrow is a derivation of barew, from…B-A-R-E-W…from Old English, a device for carrying loads.

 

A wheelbarrow is designed to carry the weight of its load between the wheel and the operator, a convenient carriage of heavier and bulkier loads like…biscuit flour? Is that what Noel is carrying? Oh, he’s…rising flour? Self-rising flour. It’s a second-class lever or lever. They get used in construction and gardening in different capacities. A two-wheel type is more stable, but the universal one-wheel type — I guess it’s not universal, though, if there’s a two-wheel type — has better maneuverability in small places. Planks in water or when…tilted ground would throw it off balance. Also, it creates greater control of the deposition of the load upon emptying.

 

The history; pretty extensive, so you could…I’ll link to it, but the earliest wheelbarrows in archeological evidence were a form of one-wheel cart from the second-century Han Dynasty, and they were in murals and brick-tomb reliefs for Emperor Hui. A painted tomb mural of a man pushing a wheelbarrow dates precisely to 118 AD. There’s another one from 150 AD, and a single wheelbarrow in a mural in a shrine…147 AD. Earlier accounts date back to the first century BC. The fifth-century Book of Later Han states that the wife of a once born…youthful imperial censor helped him push a [inaudible] back to his village during their [inaudible] wedding ceremony around 30 BC. So, yeah, it goes into…it goes through the history into the 280s, annotations into the 430s, and then into the Song dynasty.

 

It says wheelbarrows in China came in two types. The more common type after the 3rd century was a large, centrally-mounted wheel. Prior types were universally front-wheeled. Wheelbarrows…a central-wheeled wheelbarrow could transport six human passengers, and instead of the laborious amount of energy extracted on the human or the driver pulling it, the weight of the burden was evenly distributed between the wheel and the puller. There was also Chinese sailing carriages from the 6th century, lane sailing vehicles. They weren’t wheelbarrows. The date of the sail-assisted wheelbarrow being invented is not certain. Some of this history is seen in writings in the 1700s, and they have Greece and Rome after that. This is in the 400s.

 

A one-wheeled cart…different building inventories in the 400 BCs…a one-wheeler, but there’s no evidence to prove it. This is just a hypotheses. So, actually, most consensus says that…the consensus from historians says that the wheelbarrow was invented in China around 100 AD and spread to the world, though one historian does say it could have existed in Ancient Greece. A lot of things could have existed. So, let’s jump to Medieval Europe. That was in the 1100 and 1200s. That’s when they first appeared. It featured a wheel at the front and…yeah, that’s a little bit. Modern…there’s a lot of modern variations. But yeah, that’s a little bit about wheelbarrows. What do we got next? Oh, malt. Oh boy, do I love malt. I love Liam’s love of malt, and…definitely some stuff I wanted to find more about.

 

Malt is a germinated cereal grain that’s been dried in a process known as malting, where the grain is made to germinate by soaking it in water and then halted from germinating by drying it with hot air. They say, Scoots, you got some malt. It develops enzymes required for modifying the starches into sugars and maltodextrines. It also develops proteases that break down the proteins in the grains that can be used by yeast. I know you can use malt in production of beverages, but…also, malt contains small sugars, sucrose and fructose, but those aren't products of starch modification. They’re already in the grain. Oh, further condition of fermented…further conversion of fermentable sugars is in the mashing process. That’s an alcohol.

 

So, it’s used in beer, whiskey, malted milk, malt vinegar, dessert confections, flavored drinks, baked goods including malt loaf, bagels, and rich tea biscuits. It can be ground into a coarse meal known as sweetmeal. Various cereals are malted, though barley is the most common. A high-protein form of malted barley is a label-listed ingredient in blended flours. The term ‘malt’ refers to the products of the process, the grains to which this process have been applied. For example, malted barley, the sugar, heavy in maltose, or cereals, products based on malted milk, like a milkshake. They’ve been using it as an ingredient in beers in Egypt…the Sumerians, in China, in Persia. This is all according to Wikipedia. In Persian countries, a sweet paste made from germinated wheat is called samanu. In Iran, samanak.

 

In Afghanistan, tajiik. Oh, in Afghanistan, sumolok. Let’s see what else. Traditionally cook it late in the night…a Finnish Lent food known as mammi is kinda used for porridge. I want to hear about how they…Prue had said they gave it to her during the war. Let’s see if that’s malt extract. It’s a trickle…treacle-like substance used as a dietary supplement — I think this is it — popular in the first half of the 20th century…yeah, as a nutritional enhancer for the children of the British urban working class. Children were given cod liver oil for the same reason, but that was unpalatable. So, it was combined with extract of malt to produce malt and cod liver oil. They said the nutritional extract of malt does not include a mash-out at the end of the extraction. Malt extract is frequently used in brewing beer.

 

I think malt extract beers, though, are what people…that’s more of a home brew, 'cause I think…I don't know. I thought people said extract beer, back when I drank, was not good. According to the research at the end, scientists aim to discover what happens inside barley grains that become malted to help plant breeders produce better malting marley…barley for food and beverage products. But yeah, that’s a little bit about malt. How about glitter? Let’s get into glitter here. Using an assortment of small, reflective particles that come in a variety of sizes and shapes, glitter particles reflect life at different…light. They do reflect life, though, too.

 

The first production of modern glitter — I think we read this before — was American machinist Henry Rushman Sr., who found a way to cut sheets of plastic mylar into glitter in 1934, 'cause during World War II, glass glitter was unavailable. Rushman found a market for scrap plastics which were ground into glitter. He purchased Meadowbrook Farm in New Jersey where he founded Meadowbrook Inventions to produce industrial glitter. Decades later he filed a patent for a mechanism for cross-cutting films and other related inventions. Today, there’s over 20,000 varieties of glitter, a vast number of different colors, sizes, and materials. Ten million pounds of glitter was purchased between 1989 and 2009, but there’s no source with a reference point for that. Commercial glitter…I know glitter’s not great.

 

You know, glitter, don’t throw it in the garbage. Keep it in your house. Ancient glitter, though, this is what we’re interested in. Glittering surfaces have been used since prehistoric times in arts and cosmetics. The English word ‘glitter’ comes from ‘gliteren’ and Old Norse ‘glitara’. 30,000 years ago, mica flakes were used to give cave paintings a glittering appearance. Prehistoric humans were believed to have used cosmetics from hermalite, a sparkling mineral. 80,000 years ago, people of the Americas were using galena, a form of lead, to produce a bright, grayish-white, glittering paint used for objects of adornment. Surface mining was prevalent in the Upper Mississippi Valley region. From 40,000 BC to 200 BC, Egyptians produced glitter-like substances from natural stuff.

 

Mayan temples, it’s believed, were sometimes painted with red, green, and gray glitter from mica dust. Why is glitter used? Well, prior to fabrics made with modern glitter, sequins were sewn or woven on fabric to give it an appearance…edible glitter made from gum…Arabic is used by culinary artists like Stacey on this episode of Great British Bake Off. Glitter is used in cosmetics to make the face or nails shiny or sparkly. Additionally it is used in arts and crafts to color and accessorize. It, at one point, was more associated with subtext…subculture, glam rockers David Bowie, Gary Glitter, Iggy Pop, glam rock, glitter rock. Now, there is an environmental impact, and they’ve called for a ban on glitter made from PET, 'cause it’s a microplastic. So, that’s no good.

 

But there are…you can make biodegradable glitter from eucalyptus tree extract metaled with aluminum. It’s 40% softer and more delicate on the skin than conventional glitter, and it decomposes. You can also make cellulose glitter. So, that’s a little bit about glitter. There’s a lot of articles linked if you’re interested in learning more. Let’s see what else came up. Okay, we got this game, Coppit, Jumanji the original…let’s start with that. Coppit is a running, fight-board game, which we’ll read more about. It was created in 1827 by Otto Maier Verlag, and was originally called Fang den Hut, or Capture the Hat in English. It was renamed and rereleased several times, notably by Spears Games in 18…1964. It’s a game for two to six players.

 

The strategy is based partly on luck and partly on rolling a dice, similar to the game Ludo, nominally a children’s game. Let’s see, each player has four conical, hat-shaped playing pieces all the same color that start off in their home base. So, so far it’s like Trouble or Sorry. I forget which one. The object is to move out of your base, capture your cop or your opponent’s pieces by landing on them…oh, and carry them back to your base. A player can have any number of pieces out of their base at any time. However, while you’re moving back to your base with a captured piece, other players may in turn capture your piece. The winner is the last player to have an un-captured piece. There are a few squares on the board that are a different color. To rest pieces on that, it can't be captured. So, interesting.

 

Yeah, I guess it comes back to…some of it comes down to rolls. Okay, this is just a article about board games, ancient board games, games in the United States and other parts of the world, other media. Research…categories…I forgot what that’s called. Chase-the-tail-type game or something? Let’s see what Ludo says. Ludo is a strategy game for two to four players where they race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi, P-A-C-H-I-S-I. The game and variations are popular in many countries. The Mahabhar…Mahab…the Mahabharata. This is…Pachisi was created in India in the 6th century, and the early [inaudible] games in evolution is that it was depicted on boards in the caves of Ellora.

 

The original version is also described in the Indian epic, Mahabharata, and it’s…a big part of the story has been known by other names. It was modified to use a cubic die and dice cup, and then patented as ‘Ludo’ in England in 1896. The Royal Navy took Ludo and converted it into the board game Ucker, U-C-K-E-R-S. Uckers. Special areas of the board are typically brightly-colored. Each player has a color and four tokens. So, I think this is very similar, like international variance. Aggravation, Headache…oh, Trouble; there we go. Oh, but not Sorry. I’m not sorry 'cause there’s a difference between Ludo and Trouble and Sorry? Okay, a cross and circle game…not to be confused with Tic-Tac-Toe…it’s a board game designed for use by race…it’s a board game.

 

The game composes a circle of four equal portions, a cross inscribed on it with four spokes, like four spokes in a wheel…the classic example of this game is Yut, Y-U-T. However, the term ‘cross and circle games’ also apply to boards that replace the circle with a square. Ludo, Parcheesi, which…Pachisi is…Parcheesi is descended from that. I don't think I’ve ever played Parcheesi, either. I know it was popular on TV shows. It’s been expanded and copied for different games with more spokes; Aggravation, Trivial Pursuit…what else do we got? A lot of esoteric connections. They may suggest a variety of mythical, symbolic, or esoteric designs; mandalas, sun and Earth symbols, Celtic, copic, Greek crosses. However, the visual simularities do not prove a deeper connection.

 

So, that’s a slippery slope trying to interpret stuff that’s not there, they say. There’s a list of cross and circle games, but I want to get to Jumanji. Now, we really enjoyed the modern Jumanji movies, like the video game Jumanji movies, but I don't know if I’ve watched the original Jumanji with my daughter. I’m gonna have to. If you want to know more, though, it’s a…wow, a 1995 fantasy-adventure film directed by Joe Johnston, loosely based on the 1981 book by Chris Van Allsburg. The first installment of the Jumanji franchise was written by Van Allsburg, Greg Taylor, Jordan Hensleigh, and Jim Strain. It stars Robin Williams, David Alan Grier, Kristen Dunst, Jonathan Hyde, Bonnie Hunt, and Bebe Neuwirth. It centers on a board game that releases jungle-based hazards upon its players with every turn they take.

 

One of the…as a boy in 1969, someone got stuck in the game while playing with his friend. Twenty-six years later, siblings Judy and Peter find the game, begin playing, and then release the now-adult Alan. After tracking…I didn’t realize how closely the plot followed the…I totally forgot about this movie, I guess. It was released in 1995. Mixed reviews, but a box-office success. It grossed $263 million worldwide and it had a animated children’s television series. There was a related film, Space Adventure, and then Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and The Next Level. So, that’s a little bit about Jumanji, and then coming up here will be Scoots talking about Episode 1. We’re out of order and you’re off to dreamland. Thanks, and goodnight, everybody.

 

Alright patrons, it’s Scoots here, and I’m trying to cover some of the facts from Great British Bake Off, Episode 1, Series 8. What do you call it? Collection 5, I think, on…what’s that thing called? Netflix. This was Prue’s first season, so I thought we’d talk a little bit about Prue. It says that she’s a chancellor of Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She was a judge on BBC’s 2’s Great British Menu for eleven years before joining The Great British Bake Off in 2017. Let’s see, it says Prue is a dame. Prue Leith, a DBE, and…let’s see, so, in the 1960s Prue went to Le Cordon Bleu cookery school and then began a business supplying high-quality business luncheons…lunches which grew to become Leith's…Leith or Leith? Leith’s Good Food Party and Event Caterer in 1969. Hold on, I’m gonna look up how to say her name. 

Prue Leith…Prue…I want to say Leith, but it’s Prue Leith. Leith.

 

No, it is Leith, kinda like…and so, Prue opened up her Michelin-starred restaurant, Leith’s, in Notting Hill. Leith’s in Notting Hill…sold it in 1995. Wow, so, it was open from just before 1970 to 1995. In 1975, she formed the Leith’s School of Food and Wine, and that was sold.  Leith…Prue Leith College…this…I saw a YouTube video, a modern one, but she was the first woman appointed to the British Railways Board in 1977 and tried to improve its much-criticized catering. The Catering Division Travelers Fair was detached from the hotel business in 1982, and on top of being a entrepreneur and running all these businesses and doing this other stuff, Leith became a food columnist — this is all from Wikipedia, by the way — for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, The Guardian, and The Daily Mirror, wrote twelve cookery books including Leith's Cookery Bible, has written seven novels…so, I did not…I’m glad we got to read this, 'cause I had no idea.

 

I mean, oh, you can tell her wit is sharp and her keen intelligence and taste and just ability to put that into words…so, this all makes sense. So, seven novels…the last two form a part of the Food of Love Trilogy, which has been opted to be a TV series. Published her memoir in 2012, and then…her first television appearance in the 1970s was as a presenter from her thirteen-episode magazine series aimed at cooking at home. She was the last-minute replacement for someone else and she had no experience, and the director liked everything scripted including the interviews, and she didn’t like that experience. I just saw a YouTube video where she was saying that she likes the unscriptedness of not being a presenter on GBB. Later…is that right?

 

Great British Bake Off, yeah. Later in the 1980s, she was…she had two television programs about her and her career. Channel 4’s Take Six Cooks and The Best of the British, a series about young entrepreneurs…she was on the Channel 4’s Poverty Commission, then she came back to television to be a judge on The Great British Menu for eleven years until 2016…My Kitchen Rules, and then left to replace Mary Berry in the Great British Bake Off on Channel 4. She’s been involved in food education. As a chair of the Royal Society of Arts, she focused…the charity Focus on Food, now known as the Soil Association…she has a charity, Training for Life, a non-profit restaurant that trains people, Food Strand…she was a member of the Food Strand, the grant-giving foundation.

 

Fairbairn…worked on the chair of the School Food Trust, and now it’s known…it was known as The Trust, and now The Children’s Food Trust. They run Let’s Get Cooking, an organization of 5,000 cooking clubs in state schools, and she’s a patron of that. She’s vice president of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, a trustee of the Baby Taste Journey, a patron of the Institute for Food, Brain, and Behavior, sustains campaign for better hospital food, and Prue Leith's Chefs Academy. She’s active in general education, sharing…Ashridge Management College, the Three E’s Enterprises, chairman of the Governors of Secondary School at King’s College, she’s involved in a lot of other…so, she’s just all-around as amazing as she is on the show.

 

Let’s see…oh, she was appointed…here’s what I was looking for; she was appointed to the Order…Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE, in 1989 the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE, in 2010, and then Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2021. So, it goes OBE, CBE, DBE, and by me, Prue’s pretty awesome. So, all…amazing. We’re gonna talk about…a little bit about Episode 1, which was a cake episode. The first thing they were making…or one of the things were these Swiss rolls. The brand name in the US is Ho Ho, but we had them under…maybe we did have them. I never had that brand. We always had the Little Debbies brand, which may have been Swiss rolls. It may have been…called something else. I can't think of it.

 

It’s known as a…according to Wikipedia, a Swiss roll, jelly roll, roll cake, cream roll, roulade, or Swiss log, a type of sponge cake filled with whipped cream, jam, or icing. It didn’t appear…even though it’s Swiss, it originated elsewhere in Central Europe, possibly Austria. It could have been invented alongside the Battenberg cake, donuts in the Victoria sponge…oh, maybe these are ones…Ho Hos, Yodels, and Swiss cake rolls. Let’s see, Yodels are from Drake's. We didn’t have those. I wonder if it’s six…a type of cake roll called a yule log is served at Christmas. It’s a spiral shape and can have different fillings depending on the country. It could be coated in chocolate. Let’s see, history; the earliest of printed…published reference was in Northern Farmer in Utica, New York. Wow. So, shout-out…1852; how to make jelly cake.

 

It describes a modern jelly roll. Bake quick and while hot, spread with jelly. Roll carefully, wrap in cloth, and then when it’s cool, cut into slices. It evolved…jelly cake roll, jelly cake Swiss roll, jelly roll, roll jelly cake. A roll sandwich or Swiss pudding also appears in the second edition of The Complete Biscuit and Gingerbread Assistance in 1854. What else we got? The origin of the term is unknown. The earliest British reference to a baked item is in the Birmingham Journal. Yeah, there’s different styles, even ones…is there ones that are savory? Pretty much all over the world at this point. Oh, a ube one; that looks good, and a mango one. In the Philippines…oh yeah, Swiss cake rolls made by Little Debbie, so that’s the one I had. Let’s just see.

 

Yodels are made by the Drake's Company, bought by McKee Foods after HB went backrupt, similar to the Hostess brand. Let’s hop over here to McKee Foods. I guess…is this…? It’s a private company. It owns Little Debbie. It’s a privately family-owned snack food and granola manufacturer in Tennessee. The maker of Little Debbie, Sunbelt Granola and Bakery, Heartland Brands, and Drake's Cakes. The company was founded during the Great Depression. The McKees, they started selling cakes in the Chattanooga area and then they expanded, bought a bakery; Jack’s Cookie Company. It did well for a few years, but they still wanted to expand more, and…but they started the business, relocated…sold that business, relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina, and sold the Charlotte plant.

 

Then they moved back to Chattanooga in the fifties. It was to deal with some family stuff, then they bought back the bakery which was renamed McKee Baking Company from King’s Bakery. This is ‘62. Then they moved to Collegedale and in 1991 became the McKee Foods Corporation. In 2013, McKee Foods bought Hostess’s Drake's brand which included Ring Dings, Yodels, and…or the dogs that we don’t speak of. As of 2013, McKee ships over 900 million cartons of Little Debbie products each year. Little Debbie products are cookie-and-cake-based snacks with dozens of varieties; Swiss rolls, Nutty Bars, Fudge Rounds…I mean, Star Bars are the thing for me.

 

Oatmeal cream pie…they’re available in most grocery stores both in boxes and individual wrapping. Named after four-year-old Debbie, and now Debbie McKee-Fowler serves as executive vice president on the McKee board’s Food of Directors. A image of Debbie was used on packaging and advertising, and then eventually moved to full-color. They sponsor Nascar, Ford Fusion, and…yeah, so that’s a little bit…oh, Drake's is based in Wayne, New Jersey. That’s near where my sister lives. Hostess owned Drake's from 1998 to 2012. Yeah, cool. So, that’s a little bit about cakes and stuff, and Scoots will be back with more about this episode of Great British Bake Off right now.

 

Alright, so, the next thing…let’s see what else came up on this episode here. A couple other things that caught my eye…Russian doll…and I don't know if you’ve seen the series Russian Doll, but if you haven't, highly check…I recommend checking it out. I’ve been meaning to rewatch it. It was so good, and just relationally, the performances…but anyway, Russian dolls are wooden dolls decreasing…of decreasing size placed in one another. The term ‘matryoshka’, ‘little matron’, is a dim…I’m having trouble with multiple words…diminuative of the Russian female first name, Matraonya or Matryosha. Matryosha. A set of them consisted of a wooden figure which separates at the middle from top to bottom to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on.

 

The first nested doll set, according to Wikipedia, was made in 1890. Let’s see, traditionally the outside layer is a woman dressed in a sarafan, a long, shapeless, traditional Russian jumper dress. The figures inside may be of any gender. The smallest, innermost doll is typically a baby turned from a single piece of wood. Much of the artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be elaborate. They often follow a theme. It can be fairytale characters, Soviet leaders…in the West they’re also called babushka dolls. The first set was crafted in 1890 at The Children’s Educational Workshop. It was one of the…the brother of one of the founders of the Educational Workshop which was designed to make and sell children’s toys.

 

The inspiration is not clear, though it could have been inspired by a Japanese honshu doll, but those can't be placed inside of one another. Let’s see, ordinary to the…ordinarily, they’re crafted from linden trees. There’s a misconception that they’re carved from one piece of wood, but rather, they’re produced using a lathe equipped with a balance bar or heavy, two-feet long, distinct type of chisels, calipers particular to the set of the doll. A wood-carver uniquely crafts each set of wood into calipers. Yeah, there’s themes. There’s a world record; the largest set is a fifty-one piece completed in 2003. The tallest doll is 53.97 centimeters. As a metaphor, they’re often a symbol of the feminine side of Russian culture and associated with Russia’s views of family and fertility.

 

Metaphorically…they’re often used metaphorically as a design paradigm. The Nested Doll Principle; this is popular. I’ve heard this in storytelling. It denotes a recognizable relationship of a object within a object that appears in the design of many other natural, crafted objects. I don't know, maybe that’s not…the onion metaphor is similar when…like the peeling of an onion. In 2020, the Unicode Assortium approved the matryoshka…matryoshka doll as one of the new emoji characters. Let’s see what else. I think that’s everything. My mom had one of these from Russia. My parents went to Russia. Actually, they went to the Soviet Union on a trip where my dad was…a volunteer trip to help with something in the eighties, and that was one of the things they brought back. Next thing that came up is zucchini or courgette.

 

A zucchini, courgette, baby marrow, summer squash is a vining, herbaceous plant — I had some for lunch yesterday — whose fruit is…are harvested when their immature seeds are soft and edible. It is closely not…closely related but not identical to the marrow. Ordinary zucchini are…I was thinking of the cucumber. I don't see it there. Maybe one of those…I don't know, maybe we’ll learn more. I had a cucumber for lunch, not a zucchini or a courgette. Ordinary zucchini are a fruit…are a shade of green. Golden zucchini is deep orange or yellow. They can grow one meter in length but normally are harvested about fifteen to twenty-five centimeters. My daughter does not like zucchini. I do. Courgette is used in British, Malaysian, and New Zealand cultures.

 

It’s loaned from the French, where courgette is a diminutive of corge or marrow. It talks more about the history in flour, culinary uses…but I just want to look up what ‘coregette’ was, 'cause I didn’t know what it was. Ramen; talk about something that had a sustained…high cuisine…the ramen…I guess you can't call it a ramen craze now because it’s just…ramen has become another…I mean, it was already a comfort food, but now it’s more of a comfort food…I don't know. There hasn’t been any mass-market ramen places, but it is something. In most places you can have a option of at least one or two or three good ramen places. In the past it would have just been ‘noodle’ or ‘pho’.

 

So, ramen, that was a Japanese noodle soup; Chinese wheat noodles served in a meat or fish-based broth flavored with soy sauce or miso…toppings such as sliced pork, nori, scallions. Every region in Japan has its own variation of ramen. Let’s see what else we can learn. It’s a Japanese adaptation of wheat noodles, according to Wikipedia. One theory is that it was introduced in the 1660s by a Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar, and that’s how it got introduced to Japan, though historians reject that as a myth that just embellishes the history of ramen. The more plausible theory is it was introduced by Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century or early 20th century in Yokohama. There’s a Yokohama Ramen Museum…and then it made its way from China to Japan in 1859.

 

By 1900, many restaurants were serving Chinese cuisine and offered a simple dish of noodles that were cut rather than hand-pulled noodles, with broth and salt and pork bones. Also, it would be served in food stalls. Let’s see what else. After World War II, there was…in ‘45 there was not a good rice harvest which caused huge food shortages, and Japanese reduced their rice production. The US flooded the market, of course, with cheap wheat flour to deal with the food shortages. So, from 1958 to 1951, bread consumption increased, but wheat also found its way into ramen. Then the modern period; instant noodles, they were invented in 1958 by Momofuku Ando, the founder of Nissin Foods. Let’s see, instant ramen allowed anyone to make this dish just by adding boiling water.

 

By the eighties, it was a Japanese cultural icon studied throughout the world. Local varieties were hitting the market and could be even ordered by their regional names. It’s still a popular food. Now it’s popular in the quick-cook, instant way, and then what I consider a higher-cuisine level. There’s ramen noodles, there’s ramen soup, there’s a variety of flavors, there’s regional variations, and there’s even…depending on the instant ramen, you can…if you…depending on what movies you watch, you’ve probably seen…or pop culture you consume…like, oh, this…or combining two different ones. That’s on my list of things to do. But yeah, that’s a little bit about ramen. Another thing is crumble.

 

I think this was apple crumble, but crumble is a dish…can be made in a sweet or savory version, although the sweet version is much more common. A sweet variety usually contains a stewed-fruit topping with a crumbly mix of usually butter, flour, and sugar. The savory version uses meat, vegetables, and sauce, with cheese replacing the sugar in the crumble mix. The crumble is baked in the oven ‘til the topping is crisp, and the dessert variety is often served with ice cream — oh, boy — or custard, though the savory variety can be served with vegetables. Actually, this makes me think I need to make some crumbles, because I’m big on buying berries when they’re in season, and then a strawberry…make some…I’ll put…if the strawberries are getting ready to go, I’ll get them ready for a strawberry shortcake.

 

Then even blueberries, I’ll make those into a compote and have that with yogurt or overnight oats. You put a little bit of that in there; it really…plus your dish. But I was like, man, I could be making that into a dessert. Or, say, okay, now I have blackberries and blueberries, or even…this one has a blackberry and apple crumble on…what do you call it? This is Wikipedia, but yeah, popular foods…popular fruits include apple, blackberry, peach, rhubarb, gooseberry or…yeah, is that gooseberry? And plum. What’s a gooseberry? I’ve always wondered that. The only place I know gooseberry is from is fruit cups as a kid. What’s that called? Fruit cocktail. I said, isn’t this a grape? People say, no, it’s a gooseberry. Gooseberry, according to Wikipedia, is the common name for many species of ribs…ribes, R-I-B-E-S.

 

It also includes currants. It has a large number of plants with a similar appearance. They’re edible. The history; they’re indigenous to many parts of Europe, Western Asia…typically grown in alpine thickets and rocky woods in the lower country from France eastward to the Himalayas and peninsular India. Copse headrows, old ruins…the gooseberry’s been cultivated for so long. It’s tough to distinguish wild bushes from feral ones. Nothing like a feral gooseberry. To determine where the gooseberry fits into the native flora of the islands…common as it is now on some slopes of the lower Alps, peat [inaudible]…it’s uncertain whether the Romans were acquainted with the goose…have you become acquainted with the gooseberry?

 

Oh, there’s a vague passage in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History about Italy in the hot summers. Although gooseberries are now abundant in Germany and France, it does not appear to have been grown there in the Middle Ages, though the fruit was used medicinally for the cooling properties of the juice in fevers. Faeberry was the Old English name. It’s described in the 16th century by William Turner. Modern cultivation; it’s used as insect habitats or for the fruit. Yeah, there’s a lot more about gooseberries. But yeah, I guess that’ll be it for this half of this bonus episode. Maybe I’ll have myself a fruit cocktail later. Goodnight, everybody.

 

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Wheelbarrow

https://www.gardenstreet.co.uk/blog/history-of-wheelbarrows/

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-the-wheelbarrow-195264

https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-wheelbarrow-1991685

 

Glitter

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3dxmp3/the-history-of-glitter

https://medusasmakeup.com/blogs/news/shimmering-through-time-the-history-of-glitter-in-makeup

https://www.byrdie.com/history-of-glitter

 

Prue Leith facts

https://www.eater.com/23972427/leave-prue-leith-alone-great-british-bake-off

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a60925411/prue-leith-great-american-baking-show-season-two-interview/

https://prue-leith.com/prue-leith-cbe-shares-her-history-awards-and-achievements-in-her-most-recent-biog/

 

Little Debbie

https://www.southernliving.com/little-debbie-southern-icon-7965343

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/who-was-little-debbie/

https://www.mashed.com/70970/untold-truth-little-debbie/

 

Summary:

• INTRO
• I’d like to be so full of gratitude I’m overflowing
• Gratigoo
• Anything coming up, feeling-wise
• A pop-up safe place
• No Assembly Required
• It’s kind of creaky
• It has to make less sense before it makes no sense at all
• Try it loosely like a robe
• The fits of robes
• A robe-optional sci fi planet
• Different occasions for robes
• SWM is like a kitchen towel you throw over your shoulder
• I’ll buff that day right out of your hair
• Great British Bake-Off
• The Hollywood Glamor of Stepping Stones
• STORY
• I’m recording from my co-working space
• S8, C5, E2
• Noel, Sandi, and Prue’s first season
• Looking up Zumba
• Yan’s wife does Zumba
• Created in the 90s
• Aerobics with latin music
• Went from fitness videos to class instruction
• It has many different meanings
• Shoutout to Helen Z for this portmanteau
• 4 basic rhythms
• Total Body Cardio
• Wheelbarrow Facts
• You used to push old wheelbarrows with sail??
• Second classical use of a lever
• I guess a 2 wheel version is better for control
• A pretty expensive history
• 2nd century Han Dynasty
• They appear in the 2nd century AD
• This is all hypotheses
• Most likely started in China, but it could’ve existed in ancient Greece
• Oh boy, do I love malt
• Germinated Cereal Grain
• The Malt Process
• This can make malted milk aka a milkshake
• It goes by many different names
• Popular as a nutritional enhancer for children of the British working class
• Similar to Cod Liver Oil
• Let’s talk glitter!
• Henry Rushing Sr first cut up mylar to make glitter
• Over 20,000 varieties of glitter
• What about ancient glitter?
• It was once associated with glam rock and glitter
• Banning the microplastic glitter
• But you can make biodegradable glitter
• Or cellulose glitter
• Cop It! Game
• Similar to the game Ludo
• It’s about capturing pieces
• An article about ancient board games
• Pachisi
• Mahabharata
• I’m not Sorry that this game is different from Sorry
• Cross and Circle games
• Oh, I don’t think I’ve ever actually played Parcheesi
• We really enjoyed the modern Jumanji movies
• I totally forgot about the plot of this movie
• Ok, this is episode 1 now
• Prue Leith facts
• The first woman appointed to the British Railways Board in 1977
• She tried to improve the train food
• She’s written 7 novels??
• She likes the unscripted nature of hosting GBBO
• She was on Channel 4’s Poverty Commission
• She was previously a host for Great British Menu
• She’s just all around amazing
• She became an OBE in 1989
• And a CBE in 2010
• And a Dame in 2021
• Ep1 was cake
• Some Swiss Roll facts
• What are yodels??
• The buche de noel
• First mentioned in 1852
• Key Foods owns Little Debbie
• Founded during the Great Depression
• The series Russian Doll
• I’m having trouble saying matryoshka
• The tallest babushka doll
• A design principle for storytelling
• Is this like the onion metaphor?
• Zucchini / Courgette / Baby Marrows
• I had some yesterday
• Ramen has gone from simple comfort food to just generally great food I love
• Probably introduced in the 19th century to Japan via Chinese immigrants
• The Yokohama Ramen Museum
• Baked Crumble Facts
• A sweet version is more common than savory
• Stewed Fruit Topping
• I should make more crumbles
• The grape of the prepackaged fruit cocktail
• Gooseberry facts
• Maybe I’ll have a fruit cocktail later
• Goodnight

 

Notable Language:

• Gratigoo
• No Assembly Required
• Outfit-Based Podcasts (OBPs)
• The Hollywood Glamor of Stepping Stones
• Germinated Cereal Grain
• Cellulose Glitter
• Pachisi
• Mahabharata
• Yodels
• Matryoshka
• Stewed Fruit Topping
•  

 

Notable Culture:

• Star Wars

• • Star Trek
  • Back to the Future
  • Michelin
  • Great British Bake-Off

• The Grateful Stepping Stone

• • Hollywood
  • Zumba
  • Helen Zaltzman
  • Henry Rushing Sr
  • Jumanji
  • Cop It! Game
  • The Mahabharata
  • Parcheesi
  • Le Cordon Bleu
  • Little Debbie

• Russian Doll

• Yokohama Ramen Museum

 

Notable Talking Points:

• INTRO
• I’d like to be so full of gratitude I’m overflowing
• Gratigoo
• Anything coming up, feeling-wise
• A pop-up safe place
• No Assembly Required
• It’s kind of creaky
• It has to make less sense before it makes no sense at all
• Try it loosely like a robe
• The fits of robes
• A robe-optional sci fi planet
• Different occasions for robes
• SWM is like a kitchen towel you throw over your shoulder
• I’ll buff that day right out of your hair
• Great British Bake-Off
• The Hollywood Glamor of Stepping Stones
• STORY
• I’m recording from my co-working space
• S8, C5, E2
• Noel, Sandi, and Prue’s first season
• Looking up Zumba
• Yan’s wife does Zumba
• Created in the 90s
• Aerobics with latin music
• Went from fitness videos to class instruction
• It has many different meanings
• Shoutout to Helen Z for this portmanteau
• 4 basic rhythms
• Total Body Cardio
• Wheelbarrow Facts
• You used to push old wheelbarrows with sail??
• Second classical use of a lever
• I guess a 2 wheel version is better for control
• A pretty expensive history
• 2nd century Han Dynasty
• They appear in the 2nd century AD
• This is all hypotheses
• Most likely started in China, but it could’ve existed in ancient Greece
• Oh boy, do I love malt
• Germinated Cereal Grain
• The Malt Process
• This can make malted milk aka a milkshake
• It goes by many different names
• Popular as a nutritional enhancer for children of the British working class
• Similar to Cod Liver Oil
• Let’s talk glitter!
• Henry Rushing Sr first cut up mylar to make glitter
• Over 20,000 varieties of glitter
• What about ancient glitter?
• It was once associated with glam rock and glitter
• Banning the microplastic glitter
• But you can make biodegradable glitter
• Or cellulose glitter
• Cop It! Game
• Similar to the game Ludo
• It’s about capturing pieces
• An article about ancient board games
• Pachisi
• Mahabharata
• I’m not Sorry that this game is different from Sorry
• Cross and Circle games
• Oh, I don’t think I’ve ever actually played Parcheesi
• We really enjoyed the modern Jumanji movies
• I totally forgot about the plot of this movie
• Ok, this is episode 1 now
• Prue Leith facts
• The first woman appointed to the British Railways Board in 1977
• She tried to improve the train food
• She’s written 7 novels??
• She likes the unscripted nature of hosting GBBO
• She was on Channel 4’s Poverty Commission
• She was previously a host for Great British Menu
• She’s just all around amazing
• She became an OBE in 1989
• And a CBE in 2010
• And a Dame in 2021
• Ep1 was cake
• Some Swiss Roll facts
• What are yodels??
• The buche de noel
• First mentioned in 1852
• Key Foods owns Little Debbie
• Founded during the Great Depression
• The series Russian Doll
• I’m having trouble saying matryoshka
• The tallest babushka doll
• A design principle for storytelling
• Is this like the onion metaphor?
• Zucchini / Courgette / Baby Marrows
• I had some yesterday
• Ramen has gone from simple comfort food to just generally great food I love
• Probably introduced in the 19th century to Japan via Chinese immigrants
• The Yokohama Ramen Museum
• Baked Crumble Facts
• A sweet version is more common than savory
• Stewed Fruit Topping
• I should make more crumbles
• The grape of the prepackaged fruit cocktail
• Gooseberry facts
• Maybe I’ll have a fruit cocktail later
• Goodnight