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Built To Last
KERB LIFE - October 27, 2022 07:47 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStrengthening the platform and securing KERB's future by both barnacling and going back to our roots. In the final episode of our 10th birthday podcast series, we show how we have emerged from the pandemic more determined than ever to keep building a KERB that is robust enough to be around for...
KERB LIFE Special: Change, Growth and Stoicism...
KERB LIFE - October 19, 2022 13:53 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe're back with episode two of this KERB LIFE Special to celebrate a decade in London food. Here we move out of the wild abandon of start up energy and learn on the hoof about what works and what doesn’t. As ‘street food’ continues to establish itself, larger opportunities present themselves -...
KERB LIFE Special: Band of Brigands!
KERB LIFE - October 17, 2022 17:50 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAs KERB celebrates a decade in the capital, in the first episode of this KERB Life special, we look back at the era in London food that our street food collective sprang up out of – the fun and chaotic thrill of start-up energy and all the opportunities coming our way at a time when London seeme...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #8 (with Tieyan Eweka of Jollof Mama)
KERB LIFE - October 09, 2020 10:10 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen selling jollof on the streets is your life but the opportunities to sell jollof on the streets continue to be reduced, what do you do? How do you adapt? And what are the opportunities emerging out of all this difficulty? Jollof Mama's Tieyan Eweka fills me in...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #7 (with Tom Bickers of Truffle Burger)
KERB LIFE - October 09, 2020 09:59 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsReopening at Seven Dials Market, launching his first standalone site in Soho, packing away the meal kits (only to be plotting the secret next level of the meal kit), all while contending with hospitality curfews and a gutted central London, Tom Bickers' head is getting a bit done in, though his ...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #6 (with Simon Mitchell of KERB)
KERB LIFE - September 23, 2020 12:36 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTwenty minutes in the life of Seven Dials Market from the inside and what the hell are we going to do if we are once again forced to close - but this time with no support? From a deck chair in Hyde Park, Simon Mitchell and I mull over our options, so many of them sitting on uncertain ground...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #6 (with Simon Mitchell)
KERB LIFE - September 23, 2020 12:36 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTwenty minutes in the life of Seven Dials Market from the inside and what the hell are we going to do if we are once again forced to close - but this time with no support? From a deck chair in Hyde Park, Simon Mitchell and I mull over our options, so many of them sitting on uncertain ground...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #5 (with Luke Dawes)
KERB LIFE - September 23, 2020 12:33 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFresh from his first weekend off in months, Only Jerkin's Luke Dawes is breaking back onto the streets and the festival circuit, albeit of a whole different texture and with a lot less dancing allowed...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #5 (with Luke Dawes of Only Jerkin)
KERB LIFE - September 23, 2020 12:33 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFresh from his first weekend off in months, Only Jerkin's Luke Dawes is breaking back onto the streets and the festival circuit, albeit of a whole different texture and with a lot less dancing allowed...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #4 (with Melissa Thompson of Fowl Mouth's Food)
KERB LIFE - September 23, 2020 12:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsInside the world of the food writer and recipe developer, Melissa Thompson who refused to stay silent about racism in her life and industry anymore. here we are catching up on virtue signalling, representation and the triumph of the setting coconut custard...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #4 (with Melissa Thompson)
KERB LIFE - September 23, 2020 12:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsInside the world of the food writer and recipe developer, Melissa Thompson who refused to stay silent about racism in her life and industry anymore. here we are catching up on virtue signalling, representation and the triumph of the setting coconut custard...
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #3 (with Meriel Armitage of Club Mexicana)
KERB LIFE - September 17, 2020 10:47 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJust on the verge of opening her first stand alone site in Soho, lockdown curtailed her plans and sent Meriel on a different path towards feeding the NHS. Now that she has finally been able to get back to Club Mexicana I go and visit her to catch up on where she is with it all.
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #3 (with Meriel Armitage)
KERB LIFE - September 17, 2020 10:47 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJust on the verge of opening her first stand alone site in Soho, lockdown curtailed her plans and sent Meriel on a different path towards feeding the NHS. Now that she has finally been able to get back to Club Mexicana I go and visit her to catch up on where she is with it all.
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #2 (with Jonathan Downey of Hospitality Union)
KERB LIFE - September 17, 2020 09:59 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHere I am with JD at his house in Dalston, catching up with him as he prepares to head off on a vision quest to work out what we do about all this f**kry.
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #2 (with Jonathan Downey)
KERB LIFE - September 17, 2020 09:59 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHere I am with JD at his house in Dalston, catching up with him as he prepares to head off on a vision quest to work out what we do about all this f**kry.
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #1 (with Zan Kaufman of Bleecker Burger)
KERB LIFE - September 16, 2020 12:59 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt's September and a lot has shifted since we locked down and launched KERB on the Inside back in April. What's everyone up to now? I want to find out. Here we go, back with Zan from Bleecker Burger - catching up on the last few months of life in London food and the reopening of her burger joints.
KERB on the Inside: Catch ups! #1 (with Zan Kaufman)
KERB LIFE - September 16, 2020 12:59 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt's September and a lot has shifted since we locked down and launched KERB on the Inside back in April. What's everyone up to now? I want to find out. Here we go, back with Zan from Bleecker Burger - catching up on the last few months of life in London food and the reopening of her burger joints.
Trading again! (with the KERB team)
KERB LIFE - June 24, 2020 04:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat’s it like to open a bustling market when bustling isn’t allowed? How do you create a safe and enjoyable space that is also busy enough to sustain the traders? Welcome to some of our current dilemmas - and to our new spot, KERB National Theatre - the tiniest and most low-key market we’ve eve...
Jerk - Roots and evolution (with Luke Dawes)
KERB LIFE - June 17, 2020 09:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJerk is a big deal, inciting strong feelings and deep pride amongst people of Jamaican heritage. So what happens when you grew up with it - where even your Sunday roasts were jerked - but you decide to play with it? This week I speak with Luke Dawes, co-founder of Only Jerkin’ - and creator of t...
Jollof, tokenism and representation (with Tieyan Eweka-Olorunfemi & Samuel Olorunfemi)
KERB LIFE - June 10, 2020 13:43 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe have always liked to think of KERB as a space for democratic cooking and democratic eating. A glorious representation of London and its many cultures. But are we really? In our efforts at building greater awareness and change around racial equity, inside and outside our company, ...
Racism and the London food industry (with Melissa Thompson)
KERB LIFE - June 03, 2020 15:42 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAmerica’s on fire, and so are our social media feeds. The centuries old pandemic of state violence on black bodies in the US, flared up again via the death of George Floyd and the other pandemic, is forcing many of us to rethink how racism operates. Not just in America, but here on British soil ...
Inside our shuttered food hall (with Simon Mitchell)
KERB LIFE - May 27, 2020 13:48 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome inside our shuttered food hall. With income down to zero and debt mounting, we take a walk around the empty floors of Seven Dials Market and look at the reality of our situation and what hope we have to reopen. This week, the conversation is with someone close to home - my business partn...
Inside the Truffle burger kit (with Tom Bickers)
KERB LIFE - May 20, 2020 08:54 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTruffle’s Tom Bickers was left with a load of excess stock when we had to close Seven Dials Market. Through packing it up and sending our team home with it, he created the prototype for a burger kit that would save his business. We talk to him about this whole new way of feeding his customers. ...
KOTI QUICKIE - World exclusive release of Luardos fish taco rap, Pts 1 & 2 (with Simon Luard)
KERB LIFE - May 15, 2020 10:27 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHere’s a little quickie for you - couldn’t resist. It’s our old friend Simon Luard, original original KERBanist and proprietor of much loved mexi-van, Luardos. He’s been fund-raising for the business whilst it’s off the streets. Rather than tell all his customers his award winning fish taco reci...
Feeding the NHS, being the change (with Meriel Armitage)
KERB LIFE - May 13, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHere in Episode 3 I pick up with long time KERBanist, Meriel Armitage of Club Mexicana to hear how hospitality, and entrepreneurship have come together to get frontline NHS workers fed, whilst also keeping the wolf from the door for street food traders with no trade. It’s a study in ground-up ch...
“Get in the boat” - Hospitality Union rescue mission (with Jonathan Downey)
KERB LIFE - May 06, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn our second episode we take a wide lens view of the state of our industry by speaking with man on a mission, Jonathan Downey. ‘Powered by Whatsapp’, high def foresight and an unwavering capacity for getting things done, JD’s proposals to government could help save thousands of businesses. ...
Street food then/street food now (with Zan Kaufman)
KERB LIFE - April 29, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to the first episode of KERB on the Inside - our new podcast for this new era that none of us saw coming. Joining me is burger maverick and KERB Alumnus Zan Kaufman of Bleecker, sharing thoughts on how she’s attacking this curve ball and how she may even be considering a return to the s...
Women In Street Food Break It Down
KERB LIFE - July 05, 2018 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the final episode of the series of KERB Life, we begin a conversation on equality and diversity, joining a panel of KERB female business owners, breaking down their views on opportunity in street food. Introducing the show, reporter Robin Leeburn asks KERB founder Petra Barran - live via sa...
Michelin Star On The Streets
KERB LIFE - June 26, 2018 10:04 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTwo years ago, something remarkable happened at a small hawker stall in Singapore’s Chinatown market - Chan Hong Men earned a Michelin star for his soya sauce chicken. And this spring, the man better known as Hawker Chan jetted into London to join KERB’s markets, bringing the crowds flocking t...
Life On The Veg
KERB LIFE - June 18, 2018 14:50 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis KERB Life podcast lifts the biodegradable lid on the London vegan movement in the midst of a plant-powered revolution - on the streets with KERB, across the capital and now in the shopping basket. Whether it’s the record 160,000 who pledged to stay away from the animal foods for a month d...
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