5. Food habits change as we age
Today I’m lucky — you’re lucky!—because Lois Daish is here to talk about how food habits change in old age. Our choice of food and style of eating necessarily change as we start to get old. In Lois’s long life as a food writer and cook, two things have changed radically: our national food culture and her personal food habits.
If you’re a Kiwi, you will be very familiar with the work of today’s guest. She is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished and beloved culinary guides, actively involved for darn near 50 years. She has been a restauranteur and a regular writer for the New Zealand Listener. She has always been a splendid cook. Her most recent honour occurred in 2023, when she was installed in the Hall of Fame for Women in Food & Drink, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lois Daish is an essential ingredient of our national memory of food.
From her long experience, Lois has a long and comprehensive view of how our national food habits have changed over the decades. She also talks about the most mundane effects of aging, such as farting as you go up the stairs. Can you guess what nursery rhyme fits today’s story?
I so enjoyed hearing about your breakfasts and the changes to the dinner menu over the decades. It got me thinking about my breakfasts over the decades: farex, cornflakes, my grandmother’s porridge with brown sugar and milk then made into islands by my delayed twin brother and me, homemade meusli with stewed fruit, hippie millet porridge, soaked oats with fruit and yoghurt and now trusty porridge with fat oats, honey and yoghurt. Yum! Thank you Rachel and Lois.
I’m thrilled to hear this. It’s a scarey thing, to start a (virtually) new podcast with just my one little idea. So your affirmation means a lot. Of course I also love hearing about your breakfasts over the decades!
Such an enjoyable podcast and so good to have a straightforward conversation on farts as well as food habits! It sounds like you and Lois still enjoy your food and eat well.
I wouldn’t put an ‘e’ in scary, Rachel. And neither does the Concise Oxford dictionary.
Oh la la! I missed that little auto-incorrect. Thanks, June.