Share Your Secrets is a podcast by Bounceback Food CIC that celebrates the diversity of food, art and community! Episodes include interviews with the artists and organisations involved in the production of the Secret Dishes From Around the World fundraising cookbook trilogy, insights about community and culture from people in the featured countries and updates from Bounceback’s Community Cookery School team in Manchester as they scale up their fight against food poverty across the UK.
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On the final episode of Series 4 we hear from The Great British Bake Off’s Sandy Docherty who talks about Parkin, Moggy and her recipe book Sandy’s Great Northern Cookbook. Sandy talks about the power of baking, the stories connected to recipes and how food can break down barriers. Plus Duncan Swainsbury, founder of Bounceback Food, talks about Sta…
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This week on Share Your Secrets, host Miriam Rendell speaks to Naomi Thomas and Laura Crowley, who both completed our 2024 Social Enterprise Internship Programme. Naomi tried out the Fidget Pie recipe and Laura perfected the Bedfordshire Clanger! Both share their experiences of the different projects they completed during their time with our Commun…
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This week on Share Your Secrets we chat to Bounceback Food community chef Phoebe Hammett about her food startup RamYum, South Korean cuisine and the South Korean inspired Supper Club she ran with Bounceback earlier in the year. She also shares her top tips for making the recipe Lamb Scouse. Bounceback Food volunteer Katie Jackson, talks about her c…
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On the podcast this week we catch up with Bounceback Food's head chef Grant Henderson and hear what he’s been up to with the Community Cookery School team since the last series. He also shares his experience of making Cullen Skink in a previous job in Scotland. Zafar Hussain, a chef from Shababs Balti Restaurant in Birmingham, talks about the histo…
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This week on Share Your Secrets host Miriam Rendell speaks to Phoebe Hammett, our Bounceback Food Community Chef in Manchester, about her role in creating the Secret Dishes from Around the UK 2025 recipe calendar and in particular the recipe Boxty. Gail Lawler, director of Big River Bakery, talks about the realities of running a social enterprise, …
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In the first episode of Series 4 host Miriam Rendell talks to Duncan Swainsbury, founder of Bounceback Food CIC, about setting up the first Community Kitchen in Manchester, Secret Dishes From Around the UK (the 2025 Recipe Calendar) and his fond memories of Cornish Saffron Buns. Rose Geraedts shares her passion for Welsh Rarebit and why she founded…
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In the latest episode of Share Your Secrets we hear from people in some of the cities where Bounceback Food CIC have been batch cooking and distributing meals to those most impacted by the cost of living crisis this winter. Host Miriam Rendell talks to Grace Namwanje, a GP social prescribing link worker in Dudley, about how Bounceback Food CIC's ou…
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In the first episode of series 3 host Miriam Rendell talks to Duncan Swainsbury, founder of Bounceback Food CIC, about how they are tackling the cost of living crisis across the UK this winter. Grant Henderson, Bounceback’s chef in Manchester, talks about the meal drives and wider work of the community cookery school. Jake Campbell from Victoria Ho…
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Listen back to a selection of our favourite interviews from the second series of Share Your Secrets! Bounceback Food CIC’s founder, Duncan Swainsbury, discusses the Secret Dishes From Around the World 3 cookbook tour. Akulah Agbami, director of BLACK Artists* On The Move, talks about food justice and tackling global inequality. Josh Garcia, who cre…
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Listen back to a selection of our favourite interviews from the first series of Share Your Secrets! Bounceback Food CIC’s founder, Duncan Swainsbury, discusses how the organisation began on a market stall in Salford, typographer Michael Wylie talks about the original design he created for the Mexican section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2…
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On the final episode of Share Your Secrets Series 2 we hear from Char Binns, festival director of Homotopia, the organisation we teamed up with in Liverpool. There is also an interview with Nisha Tandon, founder of ArtsEkta in Belfast and artist Rong Gen Yin talks about his work for the Chinese section of the book. This interview is translated by M…
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This week on Share Your Secrets, Duncan speaks to Ashlynn Wardle from Able Arts CIC about setting up a social enterprise during a pandemic. Bryony Murray, co-founder of Bazooka Arts, explains how the name for their artwork ‘The Sharing Table’ not only describes their piece for the Ukrainian section of the book but also the fundamental way in which …
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This week on Share Your Secrets, host Miriam Rendell speaks to Breezy Willows who created the artwork for the Indonesian section of the book. Duncan Swainsbury, founder of Bounceback Food, provides information about their Food Poverty Innovation Award. Karen Gray and Karen Davidson talk about their involvement with More Than Grandparents and compet…
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On the podcast this week Kirsty Halliday shares with us the fun had at Accessible Arts and Media (AAM). She talks about their Sing and Sign Choir and discusses the impact music can have on participants with dementia. Claire Houseman speaks fondly about her time at AAM and involvement with the Libyan artwork. Duncan Swainsbury, Bounceback Food CIC’s…
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This week on Share Your Secrets, Bounceback Food CIC's founder Duncan Swainsbury reveals what the organisation has planned for 2022. There's an interview with Alice Clayden from Pyramid, the arts organisation we partnered with in Leeds. Maisie Hirshhorn shares her experience of working at Café Leep - the host venue of our book launch event in the c…
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On the podcast this week we hear from Dominika Rojeska about the incredible opportunities ArtWorks South Yorkshire provides for participants in and around the community. Josh Garcia who created the artwork for the Irish section of Secret Dishes from Around the World 3 talks about art and autism. Joy Hart tells us about Hive in Bradford and the rang…
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This week on Share Your Secrets host Miriam Rendell speaks to artist Andrew Petrouis who created artwork for the German section of Secret Dishes from Around the World 3. Selena Blakeley from Pedestrian in Leicester talks about the most rewarding parts of the job and Lorella Medici from Arty-Folks in Coventry shares an uplifting account of how art c…
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On the podcast this week we speak to Jo Offer and Richard Morris from Rocket Artists Brighton. Barbara van Heel from ActionSpace London explains the importance of creating opportunities for artists with disabilities and we have a special interview with Simon Boyle - founder of Beyond Food and The Brigade Bar and Kitchen.…
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This week on Share Your Secrets, we hear from Akulah Agbami about the incredible, international organisation BLACK* Artists On The Move. There is also an interview with Jacqueline Alkema from Women’s Arts Association Wales who collectively completed a piece of artwork for the Moroccan section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 3, and founder Du…
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Welcome back for series 2 of Share Your Secrets! In the first episode host Miriam Rendell talks to Duncan Swainsbury, founder of Bounceback Food CIC, about Bounceback’s third fundraising cookbook, Secret Dishes From Around the World 3. There’s an interview with Justin P Lees, the artist who completed an original design for the Venezuelan section of…
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In the second series of Share Your Secrets, the Bounceback Food CIC Team tour the UK and interview the artists and partner charities involved in the production of Secret Dishes From Around the World 3 - Bounceback’s third and biggest fundraising cookbook yet! Listen out for brand new episodes later in the year. To find out more about the UK book to…
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On the final episode of Share Your Secrets Series 1 we hear from Christa Eker, founder of Exploring the Turkish Kitchen – a food blog that celebrates the taste and history of Turkish food by sharing recipes both homegrown and those influenced by immigration and travel. There’s also an interview with Jamie Griffiths, a 3D modeller and animator based…
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On the penultimate episode of Share Your Secrets Series 1, we hear from Hera Hussain, founder of Chayn – a global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence. Hera reflects on living in Pakistan, setting up her social enterprise and how the organisation is using tech to support vulnerable women around t…
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On the podcast this week we hear from Ollie Hirst, a Manchester-based conceptual illustrator who created the artwork for the Cuban section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2. There’s an interview with Bounceback’s marketing & events coordinator Caitlin Buckingham, who tested out one of the recipes from the Philippines section of the book, plu…
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This week on Share Your Secrets we hear from Natalija Stolarova, a Manchester-based artist and illustrator who created the artwork for the Tunisian section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2. Bounceback Food CIC’s founder Duncan Swainsbury discusses how they adapted their Social Enterprise Internship Programme this year and two of the student…
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On the podcast this week we hear from Felix Padilla, founder of Simply Trini Cooking. There’s also an interview with Jack Whitelegg, a Manchester-based graphic designer who created the artwork for the Lebanese section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2, plus we find out about Bounceback Food CIC’s Ultimate Cookalong Giveaway competition!…
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This week on Share Your Secrets we hear from Sam Tomson, a Manchester-based graphic designer and illustrator who created the artwork for the Peruvian section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2. There’s an interview with Bounceback’s head chef Josh Rea, who also completed the food photography for the book in lockdown, plus Bounceback Food CIC’…
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On the podcast this week host Miriam Rendell speaks to artist Emily Gibbs, who created the artwork for the New Zealand section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2. There’s an interview with Bounceback’s in-house graphic designer Peter Lang, who created an original design for the Argentinian section of the book, plus we find out how Bounceback …
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This week on Share Your Secrets we hear from Sawat, founder of the Thai Farm Cooking School in Chiang Mai. There's also an interview with Victoria Rebekah, a traditional artist based in Sandbach, who created the artwork for the Spanish section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2. Bounceback Food CIC's founder Duncan Swainsbury also provides de…
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This week on Share Your Secrets, we hear from international school teacher Akemi Watanabe about community and culture in Japan. There’s also an interview with fine artist Bernice Tackley, who created the artwork for the Italian section of Secret Dishes From Around the World 2, and Bounceback Food CIC’s founder Duncan Swainsbury discusses how the so…
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In the first episode of Share Your Secrets, host Miriam Rendell speaks to Duncan Swainsbury, founder of Bounceback Food CIC, about Bounceback's latest fundraising recipe book Secret Dishes From Around the World 2. There’s an interview with typographer Michael Wylie, who created an original design for the Mexican section of the book, plus a fascinat…
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