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.
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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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