This 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 information...
Feb 03, 2022•24 min•Season 17Ep. 4
This 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 of s...
Jan 27, 2022•35 min•Season 17Ep. 3
This 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/privacy...
Jan 20, 2022•33 min•Season 17Ep. 2
This 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 shared it...
Jan 13, 2022•27 min•Season 17Ep. 1
This 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.
Dec 23, 2021•24 min•Season 8Ep. 16
This 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....
Dec 16, 2021•35 min•Season 8Ep. 15
This 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 way? A...
Dec 09, 2021•33 min•Season 8Ep. 14
This 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 information...
Dec 02, 2021•30 min•Season 8Ep. 13
This 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 the f...
Nov 24, 2021•32 min•Season 8Ep. 12
This 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 ...
Nov 18, 2021•29 min•Season 8Ep. 11
This 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 nuance...
Nov 11, 2021•40 min•Season 8Ep. 10
This 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.
Nov 04, 2021•25 min•Season 8Ep. 9
This 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 Acast. See ...
Oct 28, 2021•42 min•Season 8Ep. 8
This 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.
Oct 21, 2021•43 min•Season 8Ep. 7
This 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 ma...
Oct 14, 2021•33 min•Season 8Ep. 6
This 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....
Oct 07, 2021•44 min•Season 8Ep. 5
This 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.
Sep 30, 2021•44 min•Season 8Ep. 4
This 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 yea...
Sep 23, 2021•35 min•Season 8Ep. 3
This 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 more infor...
Sep 16, 2021•32 min•Season 8Ep. 2
This 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.
Sep 09, 2021•32 min•Season 8Ep. 1
This week, Gilly is with Kylee Newton w hose 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 on Aca...
Sep 02, 2021•30 min•Season 7Ep. 30
This week, Gilly Smith talks to scientist, Guardian food writer and finalist for a James Beard food photography award, Nik Sharma. He argues that his Flavour Equation is about the emotion, sight, sound, mouthfeel, aroma and taste of food which add up to the only way to eat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 26, 2021•31 min•Season 7Ep. 29
This week, Gilly talks to Orlando Murrin, former editor of BBC Good Food magazine, founder of Olive magazine, Waitrose columnist and president of the Guild of Food Writers about his role in creating modern British food culture back in the 90s and 2000s. And as a seasoned trendsetter, he tells us how his new book Two’s Company tackles the issue of waste. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 19, 2021•34 min•Season 7Ep. 29
This week, we’re on a bit of a summer special when Gilly is in the hot seat for a change. Food writer Bee Farrell chats about her book, Taste and the TV Chef , which recently won a clutch of awards including the International Impact Award. Bee is currently doing a PhD in the anthropology of food in the C21st and is fascinated with the rituals and performance surrounding eating, regenerative gastronomy and food storytelling, and asks Gilly if influencers really can save the planet Hosted on Acast...
Aug 12, 2021•20 min•Season 7Ep. 28
This week, Gilly is off to Puglia to catch up with adventuress-in-chief and legendary food writer, Sophie Grigson two years after she upped sticks and left the UK for a brand new post-kids adventure in Italy. Her new book, A Curious Absence of Chickens is an immersion into the heart of her new world, and a set of goals for anyone who wants a taste of a more delicious way to live. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 05, 2021•39 min•Season 7Ep. 27
This week, we’re off to the Baltic with Polish food writer, Zuza Zak whose latest book Amber and Rye takes us to Estonia, Lativia and Lithuania, an arty new Europe where food has so much to say. Zuza tells Gilly how her trip to the Baltic cities of Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga was a journey back through her childhood memories to a place made magical through separation and storytelling. Through Lithuanian and Greek mythology, traditional dishes and a renaissance in food culture, we go deep into this...
Jul 29, 2021•28 min•Season 7Ep. 26
This week, Gilly is Zooming down to Cornwall to meet the woman of the moment,Emily Scott, one of only two British chefs chosen to feed the leaders of the Western World at this summer’s G7 summit. Her debut cookbook, Sea and Shore is an ode to the simple life, something she's finally managed to balance with feeding Joe Biden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 22, 2021•31 min•Season 7Ep. 25
This week, Gilly heads down the Regent’s Canal to Hackney’s favourite café, The Towpath with owners and authors of the book of the cafe Lori de Mori and Laura Jackson. It's a place which Keira Knightly, no less, says is the reason she lives in London and, as Gilly explores why it is a ' jewel-like dream of a place', she stumbles across the meaning of life . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 15, 2021•32 min•Season 7Ep. 24
This week, Gilly Smith Zooms to Rome to talk about the the jigsaw puzzle of pasta shapes that make Italy what it is for Guardian food columnist and multi award winning author, Rachel Roddy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 08, 2021•38 min•Season 7Ep. 23
This week, Gilly Smith is off to Vietnam through the memories and food of film maker, supper club host and food writer, Uyen Luu to talk about her new book, Vietnamese. Uyen arrived in the UK aged 5 with her mother and brother, part of a mass exodus of over 800,000 boat people who fled Vietnam between 1975 and 1995. By 2010, she would become the word on Vietnamese cooking and a contributor to Observer Food Monthly after huge success with her London supper clubs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Jul 01, 2021•34 min•Season 7Ep. 22
