Cycle Touring as a Way to Discover the Food Culture of a Country: Felicity Cloake

What's it like to combine a passion for food with that of cycle touring? Our guest Felicity Cloake is an award-winning food writer and author. She shares how she fell in love with cycle touring and how it's become the perfect vehicle (literally!) for combining food, travel, and storytelling.

We chat through her three major bike touring adventures: discovering the best pastries and regional cuisine through France, rating fry-ups across the UK, and her latest bike adventure which involved cycling across the United States coast-to-coast, in search of iconic (and surprising) American eats.

We also chat about Felicity's recently released book, Peach Street to Lobster Lane: Coast to Coast in Search of Real American Cuisine.

Be sure to check out Felicity's books via the following links for those in the UK and Rest of the World.

You can also follow Felicity on instagram - @FelicityCloake as well as her website

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Chapters

• 6:03 Discovering the Joy of Cycle Travel
• 10:47 Planning and Experiencing Food Adventures on a Cycle Tour
• 22:19 Exploring American Cuisine and Culture on a Bicycle
• 40:44 Taking Bikes on Trains - Travel Challenges
• 42:45 Navigating the Midwest and Weather Hazards
• 56:06 Camping and Wildlife Encounters
• 1:00:27 Exploring the Hebridean Way and Scottish Adventures
• 1:10:37 Unexpected Discoveries and Niche Museums
• 1:15:11 The benefits of Taking a Long Distance Bike Adventure
• 1:15:11 Challenges of Eating and Riding in the Heat
• 1:17:46 Cycle Tour Food Nostalgia
• 1:23:58 The Big Duck!
• 1:35:09 Reflections on American Diversity and Hospitality