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
Theme music by Willy Zygier
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
Irini Tzortzoglou: Under the Olive Tree
August 20, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 24.2 MBThis week, Gilly Smith is, virtually, in Crete with MasterChef 2019 winner, Irini Tzortzoglou whose four food moments take us through her debut cook book Under the Olive Tree. Packed with stories of family and feasting, this is her extraordinary journey from rural Crete to the City of London and back to the food of her home, but this time as a champion. This month Cooking the Books is sponsored by Whole Foods Market, the world’s leading natural and organic foods retailer. With 7 stores acr...
Skye McAlpine: A Table for Friends
August 13, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 25.1 MBThis week we’re off to Venice with food writer and columnist and Venetian local, Skye McAlpine to hear her four food moments from her latest book A Table for Friends. This month Cooking the Books is sponsored by Whole Foods Market, the world’s leading natural and organic foods retailer. With 7 stores across London, they offer a huge range of products that lead the way in quality, specialty and vegan diets. Head over to @wholefoodsuk or check out @alexandradudley for more information on the ...
The Official Giffords Circus Cookbook: Ols Halas
August 06, 2020 05:45 - 23 minutes - 19 MBThis week, Gilly runs away with the circus as Ols Halas, chef at Gifford's Circus restaurant Sauce and co-author with Nell Gifford of its official cookbook walks her through the glittering capes and pointy-toed ponies to peak behind life in the big tent. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market, the world’s leading natural and organic foods retailer. With 7 stores across London, they offer a huge range of products that lead the way in quality, specialty and vegan diets. Head over to ...
Ana Ros: Sun and Rain
July 30, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week, Gilly Smith takes us - by the magic of remote recording - on a summer holiday to Slovenia, to the magical land of turquoise rivers and Dalmatian montains to visit top chef Ana Ros at her gourmet restaurant, Hisa Franko. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gill Meller: Root,Stem, Leaf, Flower
July 23, 2020 05:00 - 27 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week, Gilly talks to food writer and River Cottage chef Gill Meller about the four food moments from his new book Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower that ponder on his relationship with food and the land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
William Sitwell: The Restaurant
July 16, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 24.8 MBThis week William Sitwell, restaurant critic at the Telegraph, host of the podcast Biting Talk and author of The Restaurant takes us through the history not just of eating out but the story of human life through the prism of how we’ve learned to eat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ravinder Bhogal: Jikoni
July 09, 2020 05:00 - 40 minutes - 32.1 MBAward-winning food writer, journalist and chef Ravinder Bhogal gives us her four favourite food moments from her new book Jikoni: proudly inauthentic recipes from an immigrant kitchen. Expect clucking aunties in dusty sandals and ancient pickle-makers with guard geese, wronged widows and the glee of ghee. Glorious stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Olia Hercules: Summer Kitchens
July 02, 2020 05:00 - 38 minutes - 30.7 MBOlia Hercules, author of the award-winning Mamushka and Kaukasis takes us through four food moments from her latest book Summer Kitchens and paints an evocative picture of her Ukrainian childhood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Veronica Henry: A Wedding at the Beach Hut
June 04, 2020 04:00 - 22 minutes - 18.2 MBThis week, Gilly Smith talks to award winning romantic novelist, Veronica Henry whose A Wedding at the Beach Hut is the latest in the Beach Hut series set in a hot Devon summer where barbecued mackerel is marinaded in harissa and the mark of a good man is in his desire to feed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Priya Basil: Be My Guest
May 28, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week, Gilly Smith talks food philosophy with novelist and essayist, Priya Basil whose book, Be My Guest was shortlisted for this year’s Fortnum and Mason best debut food book award and is an evocative exploration of food, race and memory. Sponsored by http://www.city-books.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeff Gordinier: Hungry
May 21, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes - 40.1 MBThis week, Gilly is (virtually) in Manhattan in the home of Jeff Gordinier, former New York Times journalist and author of Hungry, to retrace the footsteps of what must be one of the best food journalist gigs ever, a rock ‘n’ roll road trip with Rene Redzepi, the greatest chef in the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Joanne Harris: The Strawberry Thief
May 14, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 31.5 MBThis week, Gilly Smith talks to author Joanne Harris twenty years after she first fell in love with Vianne, Anouk and Roux in Chocolat and then couldn’t wait to find them again in The Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur le Cure and now The Strawberry Thief, the latest in the Chocolat series. Sponsored by http://www.city-books.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jo Thomas: Escape to the French Farmhouse
May 07, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes - 27.2 MBThis week, Gilly talks to award-winning author Jo Thomas whose Escape to the French Farmhouse is the perfect Lockdown read to transport you to Provence this summer as our heroine Della reminds us of the lost art of cooking with lavender. Sponsored by http://www.city-books.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sara Paretsky: Dead Land
April 30, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 22.5 MBGuest presenter, Elizabeth Perry, aka E.C Reads on Instagram talks to Sara Paretsky about the food moments in Dead Land, the latest in the series to feature her private detective V.I. Warshawski. When Indemnity Only, the first, was published in 1982, Paretsky revolutionised the genre with this tough-talking female private eye, and in 2002 won the Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. Elizabeth has been reading her since she was 14 and admits that she is massive nerd-level fan. ...
Benjamin Myers: The Offing
April 23, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 27.6 MBThis week Gilly Smith chats (remotely) with award-winining author, Benjamin Myers whose success with his previous novels, particularly The Gallows Pole has given him the accolade of the most powerful new voices in literature. In this, his eighth novel, The Offing, he tells a Homeric tale of Robert, a 16 year old boy who sets out across 1950’s Yorkshire to Robin Hood’s Bay and finds a gloriously long summer of food, poetry and an unlikely freidnship with an eccentric and artistic older woman...
Kate Young: The Little Library Cookbook
April 16, 2020 04:00 - 24 minutes - 19.6 MBAustralian food writer, cook and bookworm Kate Young talks to Gilly Smith about the four food moments in the most important books of her life. From The Chamomile Lawn to The Secret Garden, Kate remembers the food on the plates of the characters in her inner world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Henrietta Lovell: Infused
April 09, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 26.7 MBHenrietta Lovell takes us through the four food moments that add extra flavour to her book Infused, a story of rare tea, adventure, resilience, courage and deep, deep pleasure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ingrid Persaud: Love after Love
April 02, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 23.1 MBShort story queen Ingrid Persaud takes us through the four food moments in her debut novel, Love After Love, the much anticipated Faber super-lead written in Trinidadian prose which tackles the questions of who and how we can love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley: Falastin
March 26, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 26.4 MBGilly Smith has lunch with Ottolenghi's Executive Chef Sami Tamimi and his co-author of Falastin, Tara Wigley to find the four food moments that tell their story of their new book about Sami's homeland of Palestine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Miranda Gore Brown: Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can
March 19, 2020 06:00 - 27 minutes - 21.8 MBSeries 1 finalist of The Great British Bake Off, Miranda Gore-Brown chooses four recipes to talk through her adventures in baking. A bittersweet story about so much more than cake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ryan Riley: Life Kitchen
March 12, 2020 18:51 - 33 minutes - 26.5 MBFood entrepreneur and author of Life Kitchen Ryan Riley talks through the four food moments which brought taste, flavour and the joy of eating back to thousands of people living with cancer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Romy Gill: Zaika
March 05, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutes - 28.2 MBChef, author and new presenter of BBC's Ready Steady Cook, Romy Gill chooses four food moments that take her back to the childhood in West Bengal which inspired her debut cookbook, Zaika, and led her to become one of BBC TV's latest TV chefs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Melissa Hemsley: Eat Green
February 27, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 30.1 MBGreen queen Melissa Hemsley gives us the four food moments from Eat Green that net zeroed her life, and shows us how clearing out the back of the fridge can be a delicious way to save the planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave: The Mercies
February 20, 2020 06:00 - 35 minutes - 28.4 MBAward winning children’s writer Kiran Millwood Hargrave tells us about the food that puts the flesh on the bones of the women in her first adult novel The Mercies, a story of love, evil, and obsession based on the 1621 witch trials Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Olivia Potts: A Half Baked Idea
February 12, 2020 23:30 - 35 minutes - 28.1 MBOlivia Potts talks through the food of grief in her tender, funny and moreish memoir, A Half-Baked Idea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.