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Death or Dinner☠️: Tom Radfo... Jun 23 · Mind Cake: Not Self-Help... 38:20   ​

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🍰 New Episode: Death or Dinner

Tom Radford left a career in corporate communications, got a campervan, and started eating things he found on Wandsworth Common. He filmed it. People watched. And somewhere between a morel mushroom and a stinging nettle, something clicked.

This episode started because Tom mentioned in a social media post that most of the honey in your supermarket isn't actually honey. I had to know more.

What followed was one of the most unexpected conversations we've had on Mind Cake. It turns out foraging isn't really about food at all.

-Lee & Paul

“ Someone stopped me on a walk and said ... you do realise this is a wellness experience? — Tom Radford

Tom Radford is a forager, filmmaker and founder of Eat The Country. He left the corporate world, moved into a campervan, and started teaching people that the British countryside is full of food. If you know what you're looking at and what won't kill you.

But this episode isn't really about foraging.

It's about:

• Why paying attention to what's growing around you might be one of the most grounding things you can do
• The honey fraud hiding in plain sight on every supermarket shelf
• Why "it's got dog piss on it" is not a good enough reason to avoid a blackberry
• What happens when you feel genuinely empowered by nature for the first time
• The mental health benefits of slowing down, looking down, and eating something you found yourself
• And why the most dangerous thing in the world isn't a death cap mushroom. It's stress.

Death or Dinner. The clue is in the name.

🎧 Listen now. Death or Dinner: with Tom Radford

🍪 Crumb of Wisdom

“ The most dangerous thing in the world is stress. If you're constantly stressing about everything you do, you're doing yourself a lot more harm than just eating the bloody blackberry." — Tom Radford

🍰 Icing on the Mind Cake

📅 Dates & Walnut Slices

23rd June: Death or Dinner drops Tom Radford. Foraging. Honey fraud. Dog piss. Blackberries. It's all there.

24th June: World Wellbeing Week begins​
A whole week dedicated to the kinda stuff we witter on about every fortnight.

26th June: Cancer Wellness Awareness Day​
Wellness after cancer is a conversation that doesn't happen nearly enough. We're working on it.

24th June: Midsummer The longest days are here. Get outside. Look at something that isn't a screen. Tom would strongly approve.

📌 Listener Mission

This week's gentle challenge:

Go for a walk somewhere green. Look at what's actually growing around you. You don't have to eat any of it. Just notice it's there.

Check the back of your honey jar. If it says "blend of EU and non-EU honeys", Tom has some thoughts.

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👋 Closing Bite

Thanks for being here. For listening, sharing, and letting us poke around the fascinating messy world inside your head.

Stay curious. Stay playful.

And in the words of Dr Jan — don't be a dick.

🍰 Mind Cake: not self-help… just slightly more helpful than doing nothing.

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