• 3. Comfort Food

  • Feb 25 2025
  • Length: 18 mins
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3. Comfort Food

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  • Jay Behrouzi believes food is the best medicine for homesickness so she heads to Northern Ireland to cook a family favourite with Belfast Giants' Bo Hanson. He shares why his 'goopy' turkey lasagne keeps him close to North America.

    Resident scientist Big Manny shows off his biochemist chops and explains how comfort food triggers brain chemicals that give us our insides a warm hug!

    Here’s Jay’s version of this Turkey Spinach Ricotta lasagne: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/turkey_spinach_and_43594

    Melting Pot is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab.

    Written and produced by Jay Behrouzi Resident scientist - Big Manny Supervising producer - Richard McIlroy Executive producers - Gill Farrington & Pete Wilson Mixing and Sound Design - AJ Traspederme Production Coordinator - Mica Nepomuceno Commissioning Editor - Khaliq Meer
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