Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
225 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago -Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is the winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Best Broadcast or Podcast Award 2022, and was shortlisted for Fortnum and Mason Best Podcast 2022 and 2024.
It's about all of life from climate change to culture and politics to people through the prism of food. It's for foodie book lovers who want to hear something more profound about the way we live, making the link between delicious food and the impact of food production on the land - through books.
Hear how A-lister food writers have changed the conversation about food as Gilly talks through their four chosen food moments from their latest books. As she joins the dots between stories from the old country and food identity, plant-based recipes and climate change, she shows how a deeper connection with food really could save the planet.
Listen to all your favourite food writers from Claudia Roden to Yotam Ottolenghi, Sheila Dillon to Anna Jones, Prue Leith to Elisabeth Luard, Gill Meller to Ravinder Bhogal, Dan Barber to Raymond Blanc as Gilly finds what's cooking in the minds of our food writing stars.
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Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is rated in the top 2.5% of global podcasts by ListenNotes and in the top 40 of food podcasts globally by FeedSpot
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Gilly Smith is also the presenter of the delicious. podcast and Leon's How to Eat to Save the Planet which was highly commended in the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2021. She won the Investigative Food Work Award for Right2Food (now known as the Food Foundation Podcast) in the same awards.
She also produced The Big Table for Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming, and is the multi-award winning author of Taste and the TV Chef: how storytelling can save the planet (Intellect Books 2020)
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Episodes
Gelf Alderson: Great Salads
August 04, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week, Gilly is with Gelf Alderson, executive chef at River Cottage and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s main man to talk his new book Great Salads. You know you’re going to get quality food chat when it comes from River Cottage, and after playing captain’s mate there for the last 10 years, Gelf is still pulling rabbits out of the bag. Literally. Gilly asks him what makes a River Cottage chef then, now and as we continue to look for ways to eat amazing food to save the planet. Don't forge...
Amber Guinness: A House Party in Tuscany
July 28, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 24.3 MBThis week, Gilly is with Amber Guinness whose book A House Party in Tuscany captures the spirit of her parents who lovingly restored Arniano,a humble ruin of a farmhouse they found back in 1989 and where they raised their daughters. But this was no ordinary restoration; Tatler lists it among the ‘interior’ wonders of the world, which Amber has now turned into a retreat for artists where the stylish hosting is in the image of her parents. Her book is the story of the house, her family and t...
Debora Robertson: Notes from a Small Kitchen Island
July 21, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 30.8 MBThis week, Cooking the Books is off to South West France to hang out with Debora Robertson whose latest book Notes from a Small Kitchen Island is a celebration of hosting, of feeding friends and living life beautifully. Debora is the Telegraph columnist who shows us how it’s done. She’s the 'how to' guru, the doyenne of the declutter, the dog mother of canine cuisine and queen of cooking for cats. But she tells us that her Girl Guide ability to do things well comes from a rich family trad...
Felicity Cloake: Red Sauce, Brown Sauce
July 14, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week, Gilly chats about the Great British breakfast with Guardian writer, author and culinary detective, Felicity Cloake. Her latest book Red Sauce, Brown Sauce is her second foray into food-as-national-identity by bike; she toured France for her last book One More Croissant for the Road and found much more than a tasty bite in both. After years of Brexit, Covid conspiracies and partygate, Britain is a divided nation, and Felicity has prised it open even further as she investigates t...
Riaz Phillips: West Winds
July 07, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 23.7 MBThis week, Gilly digs deep into the roots of Jamaican food culture with Riaz Phillips, winner of this year's Jane Grigson Trust Award for West Winds, recipes, history and tales from Jamaica. Riaz was a Young British Foodie award winner in 2017 for his self-published book Belly Full, a guide and history of the Caribbean eateries which have shaped the landscape of food in the UK since the Fifties. By 2018 he was on the Observer Food Monthly's annual list '50 Things we Love'. Since then, he's ...
Olia Hercules: Home Food
June 30, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week, Gilly is with Olia Hercules, the award-winning food writer who put the food of her home country of Ukraine on the map, and has since found herself fighting to keep its stories in the headlines as Russia razes it to the ground. With her Russian food writer friend, Alissa Timoshkina, she has raised millions through their #cookforukraine campaign. It has inspired thousands of pop ups all over the country, not just to raise money but to keep that rich food culture alive in our hear...
Helen Graves: Live Fire
June 23, 2022 07:19 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MBThis week, Gilly is with early food blogger and publisher of Pit Magazine, Helen Graves whose book Live Fire is about so much more than a summer BBQ. in her homage to live fire traditions, Helen takes us through her London, and the wonderfully diverse cultures which cook over open fire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gill Meller: Outside
June 16, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes - 22.7 MBThis week, Gilly is celebrating the poetry and timelessness of the great outdoors with award winning author and chef, Gill Meller. Outside is Gill's latest cook book which takes us to the elemental beauty of his home on the Jurassic coast on the Dorset and Devon border, just down the road from River Cottage where he has worked as a chef and tutor. His previous books Gather, Time and Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower have all captured this slice of Heaven, but Gill says that cooking outside doesn’t ...
Dominique Woolf: Dominique's Kitchen
June 09, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week, Gilly is with the winner of Channel 4’s Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver, Dominique Woolf. She’s a publisher’s dream – a busy mum juggling three young kids in the kitchen and cross platform ideas sizzling away on every burner, a Thai mum and aunty whizzing up sauces that really do transform every dish and a new book packed with super easy Pan Asian cook hacks. This is a woman to watch; she’ll have her own TV show before you can even say Saturday Kitchen. For transcri...
British Library Food Season Special: Sam and Sam Clark with Nawal Nasrallah and Bink Hallum
June 02, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBThis week, in a special extended episode, Gilly is on stage at the British Library in London whose Food Season has been tantalising food fans with a whole month of talks inspired by the cookbooks, recipes and culinary stories in its collection. Speakers have included Jessica Harris, Angela Hartnett, Dan Saladino, Alice Waters, Felicity Cloake, Frances Moore Lappé and Henry Dimbleby. Gilly's panel of experts explore 13th century Moorish cookery through an extraordinary story of a recently di...
Joe Woodhouse: Your Daily Veg
May 26, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 24.3 MBThis week, Gilly is with Joe Woodhouse to talk about cookery courses, food photography and launching your very first book in the middle of a war when your wife is Ukrainian food writer, Olia Hercules. His book Your Daily Veg has been lauded by Nigella, Anna Jones and Cooking the Books favourite, Rachel Roddy, and is packed with recipes inspired his career to date styling and photographing food from all over the world, but also by a lifetime of being a vegetarian. To get 10% off the Essenti...
Melissa Hemsley: Feel Good
May 19, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 26.8 MBThis week, Gilly is with the woman who made Cooking the Books happen in the first place! When Melissa Hemsley said yes to her invitation to be on a brand new indie podcast two years ago and before they'd even met, the rest of the A-listers flooded in. And that’s because she’s not just the best-selling green queen of Eat Happy and Eat Green, but one of the most generous, genuine and well-respected members of the food community. Her latest book Feel Good is what makes her so compelling as a ...
Ella Risbridger: The Year or Miracles
May 12, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week, Gilly's talking about The Year of Miracles by Ella Risbridger. Like her first book, Midnight Chicken and other recipes worth living for, it’s part memoir, part recipe book and reads like a novel. And despite not meaning to be a book about grief, it’s soaked in it. In a good way. Ella describes grief 'like an anvil crashing through the floor revealing a whole new level where you can live', and where she lives is a really interesting place which questions a whole way of being. A f...
Ella Risbridger: The Year of Miracles
May 12, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week, Gilly's talking about The Year of Miracles by Ella Risbridger. Like her first book, Midnight Chicken and other recipes worth living for, it’s part memoir, part recipe book and reads like a novel. And despite not meaning to be a book about grief, it’s soaked in it. In a good way. Ella describes grief 'like an anvil crashing through the floor revealing a whole new level where you can live', and where she lives is a really interesting place which questions a whole way of being. A f...
Sheila Dillon and Alex Renton: The Food Programme: 13 Foods That Shape Our World
May 05, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MBThis week, is all about The Food Programme, the Radio 4’s mighty series which has been examining our food, its culture and its politics for 43 years, and its first BBC book by Alex Renton taking us through 13 Foods that Shape our World. Sheila Dillon, presenter of The Food Programme for much of that time has written the foreword. Gilly first met her back in 2017 for the delicious. podcast when the Food Programme was under threat from Radio 4. A mass outpouring of love for the show, new pres...
The Fortnum and Mason Awards Shortlist with Mark Diacono, Tara Wigley and Georgina Hayden
April 28, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week, Gilly meets the judges of this year's Fortnum and Mason Awards (who shortlisted Cooking the Books for Best Podcast!) to discuss the food books nominated for these Oscars of the food world. The judges this year are three brilliant food writers, all of whom have been on Cooking the Books and were the pick of the best in 2021; Mark Diacono whose book Herb was on the shortlist, Georgina Hayden who won best Cookery Writer and Tara Wigley who, with Sami Tamimi, won best Food Book for F...
Kitty and Al Tait: Breadsong
April 21, 2022 05:00 - 39 minutes - 31.3 MBThis week Gilly is with Al and Kitty Tait, the dad and daughter team behind The Orange Bakery. Kitty was just 14 years old when crippling depression didn’t just change her life but her family’s too. Baking bread was just one of the many things they tried to get her back, but it worked. And some…Just three years later The Orange Bakery is already a thriving business run by Kitty and her dad, Al , and their beautiful book,, Breadsong tells the story. You can read the transcript here. Host...
Nicole Pisani and Joanna Weinberg: Feed your Family
April 14, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 77.5 MBThis week, a subject very close to Gilly's heart and the work she does on the Food Foundation’s award-winning podcast, Right2Food – how to change British food culture through children. Chefs in Schools is a charity which teaches kids from the very youngest age to love food by growing it school gardens and eating the kind of dishes that makes most kids run screaming. Co-founder, Nicole Pisani is a chef who has worked in top kitchens around the world from Rene Redzpei’s Noma to Ottolenghi’s N...
Georgina Hayden: Nistisima
April 07, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 32.2 MBThis week as it's Lent, we’re off to fast in Cyprus with Georgina Hayden, and to find a host of vegan gems in the traditional fasting food from religions and cultures of the Eastern Med and Eastern Europe. Her book, Nistisima borrows the vegan dishes from the Greek Orthodox Church which frames her family life, as well as the rituals around Ukraine, Russia and Serbia where fasting is a rich vein of inspiration for meat and dairy free recipes. But it’s about much more than food; it’s how fami...
Eleanor Ford: The Nutmeg Trail
March 31, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes - 21 MBThis week Gilly is with multi-award winning food writer and explorer, Eleanor Ford whose latest book The Nutmeg Trail takes us on an adventure to exotic islands and across trade routes to show how the intoxicating power of spice has changed the world. Eleanor is also the author of Fire Islands which won The Guild of Food Writers' Best International or Regional Cookbook 2020, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award for best Food or Drink Book 2020 and two Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 202...
Eat, Share, Love: Kalpna Woolf
March 24, 2022 06:00 - 34 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week, Gilly is with Kalpna Woolf, founder of the Bristol charity 91 Ways which brings together the 91 languages spoken in her hometown of Bristol in a series of pop up peace cafés. Her book Eat Share Love features the recipes shared over the supper clubs where back story is the main ingredient. She's been awarded The Guild of Food Writers Inspiration Award, BBC’s Food and Farming Food Hero Award and the Asian Women of Achievement Award and is one of the 20 people listed by Waitrose Fo...
Taste Tibet: Julie Kleeman and Yeshi Jampa
March 17, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes - 24.2 MBThis week, Gilly takes us to Tibet with Yeshi Jampa and Julie Kleeman, the husband and wife team who brought the Himalayas to Oxford through their legendary restaurant and food stall - and now, book - Taste Tibet. Yeshi grew up in Tibet, herding livestock on the high reaches of the Tibetan plateau and learning to cook inside a yak hair tent at a young age. When he was nineteen, Yeshi walked across the Himalayas to northern India, where he eventually met and married Julie a travelling schola...
Yemisi Aribisala: Longthroat Memoirs
March 10, 2022 06:00 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MBAfter spending the last couple of months hearing the voice of Yemisi Aribisala introduce the best food books of 2021 in a special series with the Andre Simon awards, this episode is all about her book Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds. It won the Andre Simon’s John Avery award in 2016, possibly because of its use of food to prod under the skin of Nigerian life and poke at the politics and culture of her homeland. But in a country which doesn’t really like to talk about ...
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Yasmin Khan
March 08, 2022 06:00 - 36 minutes - 29 MBIn the last of the Andre Simon Shortlist Special series, we meet Yasmin Khan whose book Ripe Figs transports us across the East Mediterranean, tasting the best food in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus in the company of refugees and activists. As they chop and chat about borders, memory and identity, Yasmin shows us how food can give dignity and humanise people in the harshest of circumstances. Plus, food assessor, the author Yemisi Aribisala explains why she chose Ripe Figs to be among the final...
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Sambal Shiok
March 03, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes - 21.8 MBIn the 5th episode of this special series celebrating the Andre Simon Awards 2021, Gilly discusses Mandy Yin’s shortlisted book Sambal Shiok with Singaporean writer, Sharon Wee while Mandy is on maternity leave. Sharon's 2012 book, Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen was a victim of plagiarism last year, which shook the global food community. But she hit back and is now working on a revised version which will be out later this year. You can hear her episode of Cooking the Books here. As she compa...
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Mark Diacono
February 24, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutes - 25.5 MBIn the 4th episode of the Cooking the Books Andre Simon Shortlist Special, we meet Mark Diacono, gardener, author and cook. He's no stranger to the Andre Simons; his stunning book A Year at Otter Farm won the Food Book of the Year in 2014. Before we hear his four food moments from his shortlisted Herb, we hear from food assessor, Yemisi Aribisala on why she's chosen it as one of her seven best books of 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Dee Rettali
February 17, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutes - 30.4 MBThe third in this special series celebrating the Andre Simon Awards 2021 in which Gilly meets the authors shortlisted for the prestigious food book gong with an introduction by food assessor, the Nigerian born author Yemisi Aribisala whose memoir Longthroat: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds won the Andre Simon’s John Avery award in 2016. Four out of seven on the shortlist have already appeared on Cooking the Books, and this week, you’ll get a chance to listen again to Dee Rettali tell G...
Andre Simon Awards Shortlist: Rachel Roddy
February 10, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 32.1 MBThe second in a special series in conjunction with the Andre Simon Awards 2021 .Each week, we'll start with an appraisal of each shortlisted author by this year's food assessor, the award winning Nigerian author, Yemisi Aribisala. Her book Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds, which won the John Avery Award in the Andre Simons in 2016, uses Nigerian food as an entry point to think more deeply and understand culture and society. This week, Yemisi describes the storyte...
The Andre Simon Awards Shortlist: Dan Saladino
February 03, 2022 12:12 - 54 minutes - 43.3 MBIn a special series celebrating the Andre Simon Awards 2021, Gilly celebrates the authors shortlisted for the prestigious food book prize. Each week until the Awards themselves on March 8th, we meet the seven authors with an introduction by food assessor, the Nigerian born author Yemisi Aribisala. But first, we kick off with Dan Saladino whose book Eating to Extinction was one of Cooking the Books pick of the year in 2021, and meet trustees, Xanthe Clay and Sarah Jane Evans to chat through ...
Leah Hyslop: The Brownie Diaries
February 03, 2022 06:00 - 24 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week, Gilly is with the deputy editor of Waitrose Food Magazine, Leah Hyslop whose latest book The Brownie Diaries is oozing with the kind of stories and recipes you’d expect from someone whose job it is to pull endless ideas out of the bag. As Jamie Oliver launches a national hunt for the best cookbook author, Leah tells us about story, angle and pitch, and how much magazine editing has to do with making brownies in infinite ways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Ruth Nieman: Freekeh - Wild Wheat and Ancient Grains
January 27, 2022 06:00 - 35 minutes - 28.3 MBThis week Gilly's talking about something probably quite new to foodies, Biblical Cuisine with Ruth Nieman who has become the go-to expert on Israel’s ancient foods and recipes. Her first book, The Galilean Kitchen captured the oral recipes passed down through the matriarchs of the Druze, Muslim, Christian, and Bedouin communities in Northern Israel and won a Gourmand Award. Now her latest, Freekeh: Wild Wheats and Ancient Grains is longlisted for an Andre Simon Award. Taking the meat out ...
Saira Hamilton: My Bangladesh Kitchen
January 20, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 26.7 MBThis week, Gilly is with 2013 MasterChef finalist, Saira Hamilton whose latest book takes us deep into the little-known food culture of Bangladesh. My Bangladesh Kitchen is full of food stories, poets and mystics and nostalgia for the country of Saira’s ancestors, But Bangladesh is also one of the fastest growing economies in the world as we find out as Saira explains the changing face of her family home. Cooking the Books is now part of the Food FM family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Shaun and Craig McAnuff: Natural Flava
January 13, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week, Gilly is with the Flava brothers, Craig and Shaun McAnuff whose Caribbean recipes, inspired by their Jamaican grandmother, are all about traditional values – family, morals and community purpose. It was at her house in Croydon that they started filming their Youtube videos. They got a million views in a week. But as they explored more about their heritage, they found that the Rastafarian Ital food philosophy had a great contribution to make to the growth of veganism and have shar...
Julia Georgallis: How to Eat Your Christmas Tree
December 23, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week, Gilly is with Julia Georgallis, supper club host, industrial designer and author of How to Eat your Christmas Tree who tells us how to have a super-sustainable - and delicious - Christmas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Selin Kiazim: Three
December 16, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes - 28.4 MBThis week, Gilly Smith is with Selin Kiazim, Turkish-Cyrpiot chef at Oklava in Shoreditch. A few episodes back, Clare Finney, author of The Female Chef described Selin as one of the women redefining the hospitality industry. Gilly finds out what that means while picking through her formula of Acid, Texture and Contrast which is the subject of her latest book, Three. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rowan Jacobsen: The Truffle Hound
December 09, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutes - 26.1 MBThis week, Gilly is with James Beard award-winning author, Rowan Jacobsen whose book The Truffle Hound is a fabulous romp across the world in search of truffles. But it’s much more than a story of derring do and great dogs; it’s a love letter to truffles which have so much to say to humanity about everything from the health of the environment to how get more out of life. Who’d have thought that this wonderful fruit which lives in the shadows could bring so much light to a world losing its wa...
Alissa Timoshkina. Salt and Time
December 02, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 24 MBThis week, Gilly is with Alissa Timoshkina whose book Salt and Time, a Waitrose one-to-watch for 2021, takes us into the Russian kitchen of her childhood, but also prods at many universal questions of food, identity and being a woman. As she takes us through her four food moments, we meet the Jewish Siberian matriarchs, her mother, grandmother and great grandmother whose food has literally shaped her and her own journey into motherhood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Sharon Wee: Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen
November 24, 2021 13:29 - 31 minutes - 73.2 MBThis week, Gilly is with New York food writer, Sharon Wee whose book Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen tells the story of Peranakan cuisine, a largely unknown type of cookery from Singapore, Malaysia and Malacca which was part of a craft culture binding Chinese women, including Sharon’s mother, into the fabric of a very particular lifestyle. Sharon’s book which first came out in 2012 in Singapore has become much better known as the subject of plagiarism in an astonishing story that has gripped ...
Luca Iaccarino: Appetiti
November 18, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week, Gilly is with Luca Iaccarino, Italian food critic and journalist for Italy’s most respected newspapers la Republica and Corriere della Sera. But he’s also the co-creator of Buonissima, Turin’s most spectacular food festival featuring some of the best chefs in Europe. Gilly went to meet him by Interrail to the home of the Slow Food Movement, to explore Buonissima, meet Ferran Adria and inhale the truffles of nearby Alba. But beyond the storytelling and the glamour, Luca's new book ...
Clare Finney: The Female Chef
November 11, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 32.2 MBThis week, Gilly is with Clare Finney, author of The Female Chef. The book - and the chat - is a wonderfully multi-layered exploration of what it means to be a woman in a professional kitchen in 2021. With interviews from many of Britain’s biggest names in food, including Thomasina Miers, Zoe Adjonyoh, Andi Oliver and Ravinder Bhogal, and with a foreword from Sheila Dillon, it moves the conversation on from the hugely important subject of equality in the workplace to examine the many and nu...
Bettina Campolucci Bordi: Celebrate
November 04, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutes - 20.1 MBThis week, Gilly is with vegan queen, retreat chef and recipe consultant, Bettina Campolucci Bordi whose new book Celebrate is about flavours from around the world, influenced by her own peripatetic childhood and Skandi/Bulgarian parentage. But more, it’s all about wellness and conscious cooking, dressed up for a great big party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dan Saladino: Eating to Extinction
October 28, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week, Gilly is with Dan Saladino, co-presenter of Radio 4 and BBC Sounds’ The Food Programme whose whopping 400 page debut, Eating to Extinction is a story of the world’s rarest foods and why we need to save them It’s a sweeping story of our relationship with food, of loss of diversity and its impact on humankind, our gut and our planet, woven through with wonderful tales of resilience and know-how of the food heroes, farmers and growers who hold the key to our future. Hosted on Acas...
Saliha Mahmood Ahmed:Foodology
October 21, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week, Gilly is with Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, Masterchef 2017 winner and author of Khazana, a history of the Mughal empire whose day job as gastroenterologist has inpsired her latest book Foodology, a food lover’s guide to digestive health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dee Rettali: Baking with Fortitude
October 14, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes - 26.8 MBThis week, Gilly talks the politics and culture of cake and bread with craft baker at Fortitude Bakehouse, Dee Rettali who was one of the first people to bring biodynamic, organic foods to London in the mid '90s. She's also made cakes for Madonna and Prince Charles, so famed is she for the sustainability and craft she puts in the mix. She founded Patisserie Organic in 1998 and her Soho-born coffee and sandwich shop Fernandez & Wells blazed a trail way before the boho bakeries and hipsters mad...
Claudia Roden: Med
October 07, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBThis week, Gilly is with surely everyone’s food hero, Claudia Roden who brought Jewish and Middle Eastern food to the world. Yotam Ottolenghi and Sam and Sam Clarke at Moro are among the many chefs who say that it all started with Claudia. Now, at 85, she’s got a new book out, Med which brings her personal stories and inventive flourish to the flavours of the Mediterranean. And she's still FULL of stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim Hayward: Loaf Story
September 30, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 35 MBThis week Gilly is at the Abergavenny Food Festival with Financial Times restaurant critic and Kitchen Cabinet panellist, Tim Hayward. His latest book, Loaf Story is a love letter to bread, but tells a story of Britishness and class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
James Rebanks: English Pastoral
September 23, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week Gilly is with one of the most important voices in food right now, sheep farmer and award winning author, James Rebanks. His books The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral beautifully and powerfully remind us of the connection between what we eat, where it comes from and the relationship between humans, nature and climate change in a way that will make you punch the sky and cry your heart out. Here he gives us his four food moments from this year's Fortnum and Mason Food Book of the...
Gennaro Contaldo: Limoni
September 16, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week, we're staying in the Mediterranean as Gilly sniffs the lemons of the Amalfi coast with everyone’s favourite Italian, Gennaro Contaldo. Since Gilly first met Gennaro, the conversation about food has changed: veganism, eating less but better to save the planet, regenerative farming for soil health, it’s a whole new language. But, as Gennaro shows us in his latest book, Limoni, it’s actually the very essence of the Mediterranean Diet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
Dr Simon Poole: The Real Mediterranean diet
September 09, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week, Gilly is with GP, Dr Simon Poole whose latest book The Real Mediterranean Diet shares the latest science behind the world’s oldest and healthiest diet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kylee Newton: The Modern Preserver
September 02, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 23.7 MBThis week, Gilly is with Kylee Newton whose fermenting and pickling masterclasses were featured in the Guardian and The Times. Formerly a fine purveyor of presrves and pickles, her brand Newton & Pott has morphed from production to media as Kylee’s latest book The Modern Preserver hits the shelves. A serial entrepreneur and all-round creative, her story of making it up as you go along will be familiar to many listeners who’ve always wanted to turn their hobby into their world. Hosted...