A little Christmas treat from us to you! Something to get your teeth stuck into while you're wrapping your presents, stuffing your turkey or out for a walk. You may know that we're OG Yotam Ottolenghi superfans, having both worked at Ottolenghi before we set up our own place, so we've been dying to get him on the podcast since we started. If you don't know the Ottolenghi brand, then you've probably been living under a rock for the last 20 years: they have amazing delis and restaurants in London,...
Dec 22, 2022•30 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Honey & Co is 10 years old! We couldn't think of a better way to kick off our birthday celebrations than a special episode of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. Coming atcha. Join us, Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, at home as we rustle up a classic Honey & Co dish, talk about how the restaurant was born, catch up with our team, guests and friends about their memories of the last 10 years. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be amazed! We loved reminiscing and it was so special to ...
Mar 14, 2022•33 min
Coming soon! This year we're celebrating 10 years of Honey & Co and we're going to kick off celebrations with a special episode of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. We will hear from staff, guests, friends and lots of you, too! We will laugh, we will cry and we will share some very exciting news. Tune in next week for our 10 Years of Honey & Co Special episode! With thanks to: Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Co...
Mar 10, 2022•51 sec
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're joined by queen of sugar, Ravneet Gill. Ravneet has many strings to her bow - she's a pastry chef and cookbook author, a judge on Junior Bake Off and founder of chefs' collective Countertalk. We're huge fans of everything Ravneet does. We talked to Rav about her route into the world of food, her experiences working in kitchens across London (including ours) and how she came to write her pastry books, get into TV and set up Contertalk. We also (of ...
Nov 15, 2021•34 min•Season 9Ep. 7
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we have Caroline Eden joining us! A journalist, food writer and cookbook author, Caroline's latest cookbook Red Sands, Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland, the follow-up to Black Sea , is a reimagining of traditional travel writing using food as the jumping-off point to explore Central Asia . Red Sands came out in 2020, and won all of the awards - The Financial Times, The Sunday Times and The New Yorker all selected ...
Nov 08, 2021•32 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we have Chetna Makan. Chetna is a baker, cookbook author and YouTube star. She worked as a fashion designer in Mumbai before moving to the UK and entering the Great British Bake Off in 2014 when she absolutely stole our hearts! Since then Chetna has written several bestseller cookbooks, including her latest book Chetna's 30-Minute Indian, and has become known for her creative flavour twists with a love of simple Indian home cooking. We were so excited t...
Nov 01, 2021•24 min
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we have the most exciting guests, Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley, co-authors of Falastin, a celebration of Palestinian food. They’re both from the powerhouse of Ottolenghi, Sami was a partner from the outset, and Tara joined the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen 10 years ago, where she has been developing and testing recipes ever since. We talked about their very different routes into the food world, our memories of working together at Ottolenghi, and how they came ...
Oct 25, 2021•39 min
Our guest this week on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is an incredible chef and a kindred spirit of ours from Seattle, Washington. Renee Erickson is a James Beard award-winning chef and author, she bought her first restaurant at 25 and today co-owns 6 restaurants and bars in Seattle, and that's before we count the doughnut and coffee spots. We're absolutely in awe of her energy and creativity. We talked about the responsibility of owning a restaurant, how she picks her restaurant names and we...
Oct 18, 2021•30 min
Welcome back to our podcast Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. We're delighted to welcome Danish food writer and chef, Trine Hahnemann. Trine is hugely important in Danish food culture, she's an inspiration to us personally and a great source of knowledge. She owns a beautiful place in Copenhagen called Hahnemanns Kokken which we were lucky to visit and eat at before Covid. This is a great opportunity for all of us to understand more about Danish cooking – we all know about cinnamon rolls and ry...
Oct 11, 2021•29 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Welcome back to our podcast Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. We're kicking things off with a transatlantic call to the most exciting young chef. Jake Cohen is a New Yorker, he started at culinary school, worked in Michelin kitchens, then moved into food media, writing, reviewing and recipe testing. His first book Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch is a New York Times Bestseller and one of the books we most enjoyed during lockdown. An incredible first book and we can't wait to see...
Oct 04, 2021•37 min
We're back with the fifth and final episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE, and this week we'll be sharing travel stories and recipes from our incredible trip to Jordan. In this episode we recreate a cheesy sweet knafe we cooked over the fire in Jordan; we catch up with Ramzi Hanafieh our amazing guide who took us on adventures around Jordan from the green Aljoun hills to Petra; and we talk to our friend and photographer Patricia Niven who accompanied us on all our trips about he...
Jun 10, 2021•28 min
We're back with the fourth episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE, and this week we'll be sharing travel stories and recipes from our trip to Israel back in 2019 when travel was carefree. In this episode we talk about our childhood memories of bonfires and barbecues growing up in Israel; we cook a whole aubergine on the fire with chilli garlic dressing, tahini and a charred egg yolk; we talk to our friend and photographer Patricia Niven who accompanied us on all our trips; and we...
Jun 03, 2021•35 min
We're back with the third episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE, and this week we'll be sharing travel stories and recipes from our trip to Gaziantep in Southern Turkey in search of the perfect kebab. In this episode we cook our version of Adana kebab, a recipe that is very famous in Turkey and that every restaurant has their own version of; we talk to our friend and photographer Patricia Niven who accompanied us on all our trips; and we catch up with Erdem Hösükoğlu who so kind...
May 27, 2021•28 min
We're back with the second episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE. For the next few weeks we'll be sharing travel stories with you around the Levant, cooking recipes from our trip and catching up with some of the friends we made in each of the countries that we visited. This week we're chatting about our many trips to Greece and specifically our travels to Thessaloniki in 2019. Greece is a very special country to us and Thessaloniki is such an amazing town, not so much a tourist ...
May 20, 2021•29 min
We're back with a new series of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions all about our new cookbook CHASING SMOKE. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Where there's fire there's delicious food to share, and friendships and memories to make. CHASING SMOKE is a record of our travels around the Levant, chasing and cooking over fire on grills, beaches and bonfires. For the next five weeks we'll be sharing travel stories with you, cooking recipes from our trip and catching up with some of the friends we made...
May 13, 2021•31 min
Welcome back to Honey & Co: The Food Sessions with Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich It's been a year. And what a year. We're back with a revival of the podcast, starting with a MIX TAPE for you. If you're of a certain age you'll know all about mix tapes, an expression of love in compilation form. So from us to you, this is our mix tape for you, featuring our best, tastiest, crispiest, sweetest bits so far from all our previous episodes. If you're new to the podcast this is an excellent plac...
May 06, 2021•44 min
It’s International Women’s Day! To celebrate this glorious day we have one very special episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating inspiring Women In Food. Today’s episode features the most important and inspirational women in our lives, the women running Honey & Co! We like to say that every day is women’s day at Honey & Co and in this episode we chat to some of the women working in the kitchens, on front of house and behind the scenes to make it that way. For one week only, o...
Mar 08, 2020•25 min
This is the seventh episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today's guest is Fay Maschler, restaurant critic at London’s Evening Standard newspaper. Fay won a contest for the position of Evening Standard restaurant critic in 1972. This was supposed to last for three months but she has recently celebrated 47 years in the role! Fay’s reviews are legendary and she has been known to put many a chef in their place. We talked about her experiences starting out in the hey da...
Feb 28, 2020•25 min
This is the sixth episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today's guest is Darina Allen, founder of world-renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland and bestselling author of 19 cookbooks. We absolutely love Darina and the school and have had many of her graduates working in our kitchens over the years. We chatted to Darina about how she came to run the fabulous Ballymaloe, what it's like be part of a cooking dynasty and what it takes to be a successful cookbook au...
Feb 21, 2020•24 min
This is the fifth episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today's guest is Lisa Markwell, food editor at The Sunday Times and editor at CODE Hospitality. Lisa has been a journalist for more than 30 years, winning awards as editor of The Independent on Sunday and spending eight years as restaurant critic at the same paper – giving herself the job after the previous critic was fired. She took a ‘gap year’ to undertake the chef’s diploma course at Leith’s School of Food ...
Feb 14, 2020•29 min
This is the fourth episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today’s guest is Romy Gill, what a treat! Romy is a British-Indian chef and cookery teacher and was the owner and head chef at Romy’s Kitchen in Gloucestershire for 6 years. One of the few female Indian chefs in the industry, Romy was appointed an MBE in the Queen’s 90th birthday honours list in 2016 for her services to the food industry. Romy’s debut cookbook Zaika is full of delicious vegan recipes celebrati...
Feb 07, 2020•19 min
This is the third episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today’s guest is multi-award winning food journalist Sheila Dillon, known as the voice of The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4. Sheila started her career in journalism when she reported on the contamination of the New York water supply by pesticides for food magazine Food Monitor, and has been reporting on the most important stories in the industry ever since. As a reporter, writer, producer and presenter on The F...
Jan 31, 2020•21 min
This is the second episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today’s guest is Claudia Roden, the goddess of Middle Eastern food writing. Claudia is a cookbook writer and anthropologist, her career spans over 50 years. Originally from Egypt, Claudia grew up in Cairo and studied in Paris and London. In 1956 when her parents fled Egypt to London, Claudia began collecting recipes from the Jewish diaspora arriving from all over the Middle East as a way to make a connection b...
Jan 24, 2020•25 min
The first episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Since the start of Honey & Co women have reigned supreme; they run our kitchens, our front of house and our offices, and we finally feel that the industry is starting to catch up with us. Women are now leading the way across the industry, not just as chefs but as food critics, as writers, as culinary teachers, tv and radio presenters and so much more. So, with International Women’s Day on the horizon we wanted to d...
Jan 17, 2020•35 min
Alison Roman is a columnist for the New York Times Food section and Bon Appétit contributor. She is the author of the bestselling Dining In. Alison has worked professionally in kitchens such as New York’s Momofuku Milk Bar and San Francisco’s Quince. We talk all about her new book, Nothing Fancy, where Alison makes any night of the week worth celebrating. She believes it’s not entertaining, it’s having people over. We apologised to leeks, fawned over anchovies and much more! Hosted on Acast. See...
Dec 13, 2019•34 min
Mike is an Israeli chef and restaurateur known for his landmark Philadelphia restaurant, Zahav, where we had the pleasure of speaking to him while we were in town. We spoke to Mike about growing up in a Jewish household in the US, the food of Israel, his introduction to kitchens and how he and his business partner, Steven Cook, have kept expanding their restaurant world to include Abe Fisher, Dizengoff, Percy Street Barbecue and more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
Dec 06, 2019•43 min
Nancy is a native Californian, but has lived in Japan since 1988 and is a renowned expert in Japanese food. Nancy’s cookbooks include Japanese Farm Food, Preserving the Japanese Way and her newest book is called Japan: The Cookbook - Nancy has painstakingly reworked traditional material gathered from gifted home cooks and translated, tested and adapted the recipes. We talk to her about how to source good ingredients for Japanese home cooking, small-scale farming in Japan and much more... Hosted ...
Nov 29, 2019•27 min
The third and final instalment of our special smoke series to celebrate the third birthday of our grill restaurant Honey & Smoke. In this episode we had the wonderful Gill Meller join us all the way from Dorset. First we head into the kitchen with Sarit and Itamar to cook up some lamb chops and plums on the grill, a favourite here at Honey & Smoke over the last 3 years and talk about their love of fire growing up! Then they chat to Gill Meller, the chef, cookbook author and fellow fire-l...
Nov 15, 2019•30 min
The second instalment of our special smoke series to celebrate the third birthday of our grill restaurant Honey & Smoke. In this episode we had the incredible Ben Chapman, co-founder of award-winning restaurants Kiln, Smoking Goat and Brat come cook a Thai-inspired grill menu for us. First we go behind the scenes at Honey & Smoke to cook one of our most popular dishes over the last three years - grilled octopus and prawns with a rich bean stew. Then we chat to Ben! We talked all about cr...
Nov 15, 2019•31 min
It's Bonfire Night and our grill house Honey & Smoke is three! To celebrate the third birthday we had not one, not two, but three parties. We invited three fire-loving chefs, Olia Hercules, Ben Chapman and Gill Meller to cook over fire with us and to talk about their life in food and flames. In this series we are doing things a bit differently, so first we head into the kitchens of Honey & Smoke to cook up one of our most popular dishes for you: a recipe for grilled pears with almond tah...
Nov 05, 2019•32 min
