Stay ConnectedAward-winning podcast from husband-and-wife chef-duo, Sarit Packer & Itamar Srulovich of Honey & Co restaurant, London.
The pair chat to the most important and interesting people in the food industry. Pull up a chair, pour a glass of wine, and hear about a life made in food.
Podcast of the Year 2021, Fortnum & Mason Awards 2021
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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, era defining cookbook, a weekly recipe column in the Saturday Guardian and regularly contribute to the New York Times.
Today we're joined by Yotam Ottolenghi, Noor Murad and Verena Lochmuller from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, another exciting part of the Ottolenghi empire! The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen was founded by Yotam and is headed by Noor Murad alongside a collaborative team of chefs, writers, doers and thinkers. Together they cook, taste, converse and put into writing all the recipes they truly hope will make it onto your tables. We talked about how OTK came into being, what it's like to work in such a collaborative, creative environment, and of course we drooled over their latest cookbook, Extra Good Things.
Pick up a copy of OTK Extra Good Things and OTK Shelf Love for Christmas! Available where all good books are sold.
With thanks to our guests Yotam Ottolenghi, Noor Murad and Verena Lochmuller.
Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast if you've not already, and check out our back catalogue if you're new to the podcast, there are lots of juicy morsels to enjoy.
With thanks to everyone who helps make this podcast happen:
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Audio Engineers: John Scott
Theme Tune: Daniel Winshall
Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 read and listen to all the memories submitted by our customers from over the years.
Thank you to everyone who sent us a voice message or a dm, an email or a story. We're so sorry we couldn't feature them all, we read every single one, we love them, it's been very special for us to read them and to help us remember and enjoy what we've done over the last 10 years.
News! While some of you may know that we will be closing Honey & Co on Warren Street at the end of April, we are so happy to announce today that we will be moving to Lamb's Conduit Street this Spring. We're not closing, just moving!
Follow the new location build @HoneyAndCoBloomsbury on instagram.
If you want early access to bookings you will need to be on our mailing list – sign up to our mailing list.
With thanks to our guests Mirko D'Angelo, Rachael Gibbon, David Loyd and Lara Hamilton.
Thanks to Laura Bartram-Pope, Hannah Geller, Briana Lebold and Sunny Kang for their audio messages, and to everyone who sent us a voice message, a dm or an email.
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott
Theme tune: Daniel Winshall
Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 course) talked everything sugar, cakes and pastries, and sent our love to Biji!
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With thanks to:
Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 it as their book of the year for 2020. We talked to Caroline about how her obsession with Central Asia began, the practicalities of travelling in the region, and the incredible people she met on the way, as well as demystifying plov, the environmental disaster of the Aral Sea, and the soviet-era sanatoriums of Tajikistan. It was an absolute joy to talk to Caroline!
Follow Caroline on instagram: @edentravels Get a copy of Red Sands
With thanks to:
Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 to catch up with Chetna on everything she's been up to since we last saw her. We talked about roping in children to film content during lockdown, the process of creating simple delicious food available in 30 mins, and we asked 'what even is sour dough??'
Follow Chetna on instagram: @chetnamakan Get a copy of Chetna's 30-Minute Indian
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Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 to write Falastin. We were fascinated to hear their experiences visiting Palestine together – we compared Tara’s spreadsheet to Sami’s relaxed approach to travel, heard how they spent days tracking down a group of yogurt makers, and they told us about the generosity of all the people whose kitchens they visited. And of course we discussed at length the recipes that have gone wild since the book came out – Sami’s dad's famous eggs, tahini swirls, and the shawarma filo pie.
Get a copy of Falastin from our shop Honey & Spice.
Follow Sami and Tara on instagram: @tara.wigley @sami_tamimi -
With thanks to:
Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 explored her new book Getaway, the perfect antidote to the last 18 months. Oh and we tried to sell her our restaurants. Spoiler, she did not take us up on the offer.
Enjoy!
Follow Renee: @chefreneeerickson Get a copy of Getaway
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Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 rye bread but we can sometimes be hazy on the rest. Trine talked to us about the many seasons of Denmark, the importance of working with local farmers and producers, the rise of the Copenhagen food scene, and how she became the lunch queen of Copenhagen. Plus open sandwiches, pickles, fermented potato chips and hygge.
Enjoy!
Follow Trine: @trinehahnemann Visit: @hahnemannkokken Get a copy of Scandinavian Green
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Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 what he'll do next. Jake has already built a mighty following on social media, there are already legions of people baking babka and plaiting challah dough along with him on Instagram and Tik Tok, he's a fascinating writer and I know you'll enjoy him as much as we did.
Order a copy of JEW-ISH from us at Honey & Spice, or wherever good books are sold.
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Producer: Miranda Hinkley Audio Engineers: Paul Brogden & John Scott Theme tune: Daniel Winshall Head of Comms: Louisa Cornford
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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 her favourite experiences along the way.
We were blown away by everything we saw, everything we ate, and everyone we met in Jordan. We enjoyed mind-blowing landscapes from the hills to the valleys, beautiful tomato galayet bandora cooked over fire on the roadside by Ramzi, and we were so lucky to be welcomed to enjoy a mansaf feast with our new friend Saif. We definitely saved the best episode until last for you... Enjoy!
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Follow Ramzi Hanafieh @Ramzi_Hanafieh and @Saif.Khlaifat85 and adventure with them when you visit Jordan @JOnavigators
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For knafe recipe:
For the sugar syrup:
400g granulated sugar
230ml water
a squeeze of lemon juice
2tsp orange blossom water
For the crust:
375g kadaif dough, air-dried till crisp
100ml sugar syrup
45ml oz water 100g / melted ghee
For the filling:
250g fresh mozzarella
250g hard mozzarella (the stuff you can grate)
To cook and serve:
30g melted ghee to brush the pan
ground pistachios
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With thanks to:
Our guests this week: Patsy @PatriciaNiven and @Ramzi_Hanafieh
As well as @Saif.Khlaifat85 who welcomed us into his family home to cook mansaf
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Audio Engineer: Paul Brogden
Theme tune: Daniel Winshall
Head of Communications: Louisa Cornford
A special thank you to Polly Russell for donating her garden
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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 catch up with Oshrat Yakutiel, our friend and Tel Aviv cafe owner, who joined us with her family on one of our cookbook shoot days in Israel.
There's burnt potatoes in bonfires, fire pits, sun stroke, giant steaks and tips on how to avoid exploding aubergines... Enjoy!
This episode was recorded in April 2021.---------
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Follow Oshrat @Osh_Posh and visit @Cafe_Yael
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For the whole burnt aubergine:
2 aubergines
50g / 1¾ oz tahini paste
50ml / 1¾ fl oz ice-cold water
2 egg yolks from beautiful eggs
For the lemon, chilli and garlic dressing:
1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
1 green chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
3 large garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
juice of 1-2 lemons
1 tsp table salt
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp caster sugar
2 tbsp olive oil
1 bunch of parsley, leaves picked and chopped
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With thanks to:
Our guests this week: Patsy @PatriciaNiven and Oshrat @Osh_Posh
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Audio Engineer: Paul Brogden
Theme tune: Daniel Winshall
Head of Communications: Louisa Cornford
A special thank you to Polly Russell for donating her garden
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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 kindly showed us around Gaziantep in 2019 and got us into all the best kitchens!
We talk about Sarit's control-freak-ness when it comes to boarding passes; the pride, passion and amazing produce we came across in Gaziantep; and we road test our new ziir knife that we picked up on the trip and have been too scared to use since. Enjoy.
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For the Adana Kebab recipe:
700 g / 1 lb 9 oz lamb shoulder meat (or 20% fat lamb mince)
1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced
1 red chilli, halved, deseeded and sliced
2 onions, peeled and roughly diced
5 garlic cloves, peeled
1 large bunch of parsley, leaves picked
2 tsp table salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp ground cumin
1 tbsp sweet paprika
½ tsp ground allspice (pimento)
vegetable oil for shaping
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With thanks to:
Our guests this week: Patsy @PatriciaNiven and @ErdemHosukuglu
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Additional Production: Claire Crofton
Audio Engineer: Paul Brogden
Theme tune: Daniel Winshall
Head of Communications: Louisa Cornford
A special thank you to Polly Russell for donating her garden
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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 destination, but it should be! In this episode we cook octopus on the grill with a beautiful paprika aioli; we talk to our friend and photographer Patricia Niven who accompanied us on all our trips; and we catch up with our own Gena Deliyannis who used to work with us at Honey & Smoke and was instrumental in planning our trip – she is now living back in her homeland so we catch up on what's hot in Greece right now.
We talk about our hunt for the perfect gyros, our misinterpretation of the meaning of antikristo lamb, our visit to a women's cooperative in the hills, and all the ways you can cook an octopus. Enjoy.
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For the Octopus Recipe
1 large octopus (defrosted)
For the braising liquor
1 plum tomato, quartered
1 red onion, quartered
1 tsp whole cumin seeds
1 tsp whole black peppercorns
4 garlic cloves, halved
1 chilli, halved lengthways
2 bay leaves
a few sprigs of sage
4 tbsp red wine (or use white, if there’s some open, or 2 tbsp brandy)
For the marinade
1 clove of garlic, thinly sliced
8 sage leaves, roughly chopped
1 tsp smoked paprika
a sprinkle of chilli flakes
3 tbsp olive oil
For the paprika aioli 1 egg yolk
1 small clove of garlic, minced
½ tsp smoked paprika
½ tsp sweet paprika
a pinch of salt, plus more to taste
2 tsp rice vinegar (or light white wine vinegar)
100–120 ml / 3½ –4¼ fl oz vegetable oil
juice of ½ lemon
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With thanks to
Our guests this week: Patsy @PatriciaNiven and Gena Deliyannis
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Additional Production: Claire Crofton
Audio Engineer: Paul Brogden
Theme tune: Daniel Winshall
Head of Communications: Louisa Cornford
A special thank you to Polly Russell for donating her garden
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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 in each of the five countries that we visited: Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Israel and Jordan.
First up is Egypt where we travelled to Cairo and Alexandria. In this episode we make sweet potatoes baked in embers, a dish we tried for the first time on the Corniche waterside in Alexandria, which we add our own almond tahini twist to; we talk to our friend and photographer Patricia Niven who accompanied us on all our trips to take beautiful photos; and we catch up with Laila Hassaballa of Bellies En Route who took us on the most incredible food tour in Cairo.
There's charcoal in buckets, cars in carpets and... the dynamite falafel sandwich. Enjoy.
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Follow Laila @belliesenroute and find out more about their tours at https://belliesenroute.com Get 40% off their e-cookbook Table to Table with code: heyhoney
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Ingredients for sweet potato recipe
4 sweet potatoes
100g whole raw almonds, skins on
100g boiling water
1 small clove of garlic, peeled
4 tbsp light vegetable oil
1 tbsp sherry vinegar (or use red wine vinegar)
80ml cold water
flaky sea salt (plus more to taste)
date molasses (optional)
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With thanks to
Our guests this week: Patsy @PatriciaNiven and Laila Hassaballa of @belliesenroute
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Additional Production: Richard Ward
Audio Engineer: Paul Brogden
Theme tune: Daniel Winshall
Head of Communications: Louisa Cornford
A special thank you to Polly Russell for donating her garden
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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 place to start. Featuring Claudia Roden, Michael Rakowitz, Samin Nosrat, Fernando Laposse, Max Halley, Olia Hercules, Andi Oliver and our very own Bridget Fojcik.
If you like what you hear you should definitely delve back further into previous episodes, and look out for our new series coming, which is all about our new book Chasing Smoke.
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Miranda Hinkley our producer
Richard Ward for additional production
John Scott our sound engineer
Hester Cant who produced some of these episodes
Louisa Cornford our comms manager
And Daniel Winshall for our new theme music
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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, our roving reporter and fearless leader Sarit Packer had a walk around Fitzrovia to chat to the team about why they love their lives in food: from the joy of leaving behind 9-5 clock watching, to the buzz of running a busy service; from the satisfaction of knowing everything about your regulars to the happiness of waking up every morning go to a job that you love... and of course the absolutely delicious food! We also talked candidly about past experiences juggling childcare and the perception that as a woman you must choose family or career, we shared experiences working in macho establishments in the past and talked about how this is changing in the industry.
We are so, so proud of the strong and happy female-led company we have created and the nurturing and progressive atmosphere that comes with this. We hope this episode will give a special insight into the world of hospitality and Honey & Co and inspire lots more women to come join us.
Hope you enjoy!
This is the last episode in our Who Run The World? Women in Food Season. Be sure to catch up on previous episodes with:
Fay Maschler
Darina Allen
Romy Gill
Lisa Markwell
Sheila Dillon
Claudia Roden
Andi Oliver
Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!
Email us at podcasts@honeyandco.co.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @honeyandco
Instagram: @honeyandco
#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Manager: Louisa Cornford
Vocals: Kristine Kruz
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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 day of journalism, the reality of eating out four times a week, when not to write a bad review, and how to deal with death threats when you do!
It was such an honour to have Fay with us for this conversation. It was fascinating to hear about the changes she has seen over the years on the London restaurant scene, how the rise of social media has changed things, the food writers she admires the most, and what we all really, really want to know... where we should be eating right now in London.
Hope you enjoy!
This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food. Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.
Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!
Email us at podcasts@honeyandco.co.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @honeyandco
Instagram: @honeyandco
Follow Fay on Twitter: @Fay_Maschler And read her in Evening Standard
#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Manager: Louisa Cornford
Vocals: Kristine Kruz
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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 author.
It was wonderful to hear Darina talking so passionately about her experiences running a successful family business in rural Ireland, as well as the sustainable ethos at the core of everything that Ballymaloe does, and the values she instills in all her students, especially about the importance of creating an inclusive kitchen culture.
Hope you enjoy!
This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food. Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.
Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!
Email us at podcasts@honeyandco.co.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @honeyandco
Instagram: @honeyandco
Ballymaloe Cookery School http://www.cookingisfun.ie
Instagram: @ballymaloecookeryschool
Darina on Instagram: @darina_allen
#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Manager: Louisa Cornford
Vocals: Kristine Kruz
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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 and Wine, before returning to journalism as food editor at The Sunday Times.
We talked to Lisa about her experiences of working in the cut-throat world of hard news and how journalism has changed over the last 30 years. It was fascinating to hear how she rose to the top and how she has been able to use her position to change the way women are written about. We loved hearing how Lisa's training at Leith's changed her perspective on the food world and she made a beautiful comparison of running a kitchen with running a newspaper. Lisa also gave great advice for anyone starting out in food journalism... well worth a listen!
Hope you enjoy!
This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food. Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.
Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!
Email us at podcasts@honeyandco.co.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @honeyandco
Instagram: @honeyandco
#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld
Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Manager: Louisa Cornford
Vocals: Kristine Kruz
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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 celebrating the zaika or ‘flavours’ of Indian cooking that bring a renewed spicy excitement to plant-based food.
We talked to Romy about the barriers she came up against as a woman – and more specifically an Indian woman – opening her own restaurant, from securing funding to getting planning permission and dealing with builders. We also talked about the women who have inspired her and helped her along the way, from her mother to Sheila Dillon, Claudia Roden, Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson.
Romy is such an inspiration to women in the food industry and such a pleasure to chat to. We were so excited to hear that she'll be joining the lineup of the new Ready Steady Cook on BBC One and that she has a new opening coming soon.
Hope you enjoy!
This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food. Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.
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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 Food Programme, Sheila has been involved in many important stories in the food world: from BSE to the horsemeat scandal; from the rise of GM crops to the growth of the organic movement; and more recently the health hazards of vegan junk food.
As well as telling us about these groundbreaking food stories, Sheila told us fascinating stories about her experiences as a woman in the food world, including her activities with the women's movement, how she was involved in a landmark sex discrimination case for equal pay in America, and more recently her experiences of the gender pay gap at the BBC.
We really loved having Sheila share her knowledge, experience and advice for those looking to build a career in the industry. This is such a wonderful, insightful conversation and an important listen.
Hope you enjoy!
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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 between refugees and their homelands. This led to multiple bestselling cookbooks including the international award-winning The Book of Jewish Food,and she revolutionised western attitudes to Middle Eastern cuisines in 1968 with her bestselling cookbook, A Book of Middle Eastern Food.
We talked to Claudia about her unusual route to a career in food writing, how attitudes to women working have changed over the last 50 years, the women who inspired her, and how travelling alone as a woman was treated with suspicion yet opened many kitchen doors for her research. Claudia is a true inspiration, our hero, and we owe so much to her in paving the way for us.
This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food in which we will be chatting to leading women across the food industry, writers, broadcasters, critics, chefs and restaurateurs.
Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.
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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 dedicate a whole season to some of the women who inspire us every single day!
Today’s guest is Andi Oliver, she’s the most vivacious and beautiful person we’ve had the chance to meet this year. The interview with her is absolutely hilarious. We talked about her career in a punk band, and how she made the transition to chef and then to food broadcaster. Her show The Great British Menu is one of our absolute favourite shows, you should watch it - we spend hours arguing over what we would make!
Listen to find out more about how she managed to get where she is and how she broke the glass ceiling. We are also so excited to hear about her current project collecting recipes from all around the Caribbean, Wadadli Kitchen.
This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food. Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.
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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!
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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...
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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...
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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-lover who joined us to celebrate our 3rd and final party for the 3rd birthday of Honey & Smoke! Gill talks about his experiments with fire and cooking outside growing up, bringing this to River Cottage and the different techniques he uses, from nailing fish to planks to wrapping food in clay. We ate a gorgeous meal including focaccia bread with bacon & herbs, homemade cheese with herbs, clay baked onions, grilled cabbage with carraway & garlic butter and wood roast lamb shoulder and finished with gorgeous honey and coriander cakes. Such a memorable meal!
We were so happy to welcome fire-loving chefs Olia Hercules, Ben Chapman and Gill Meller to celebrate with us! We hope you enjoyed the series. Each chef brought a completely different perspective to cooking over the coals and it was so much fun to cook with them. Please remember to rate and review if you enjoyed!
Make a booking at Honey & Smoke Honey & Smoke, 216 Great Portland St, W1W 5QW https://honeyandco.co.uk/smoke/ @honeyandsmokerestaurant
Follow @gill.meller All of the recipes were cooked from Gill's cookbooks Time, Gather and Outdoor Cooking. Get signed copies via our website shop.honeyandco.co.uk
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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 creating a Thai grill menu at Kiln using a range of simple tao barbecues; his story of becoming a chef; the travels, cooking and learning that led to combining British grown ingredients with Thai recipes. Such a fascinating conversation!
We sat down for a sensational menu including delicious liver grilled in sage, raw Jersey beef laap, jungle curry of kippers, mackerel mashwi and Tamwoth belly kapi curry. It was sensational - so vibrant, spicy and smoky.
Each chef brought a completely different perspective to cooking over the coals and it was so much fun to cook with them. Stay tuned for the final episode with Gill Meller who's coming from Dorset to cook some lamb and chat fire with us!
Make a booking at Honey & Smoke Honey & Smoke, 216 Great Portland St, W1W 5QW https://honeyandco.co.uk/smoke/ @honeyandsmokerestaurant
Follow Ben and his restaurants here @kilnsoho @smokinggoatbar @bratrestaurant
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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 tahini, coriander and smoked almonds. Then we chat to our first guest Olia Hercules who brought us beautiful smoke dried pears from Ukraine. We talk about Eastern European stereotypes of beetroot and cabbage, memories of cooking fish broth over fire for summer picnics, traditions of smoking fruit in wood fired ovens, and her dad's incredible keffir recipe which makes the most tender grilled chicken.
After a wonderful conversation we sat down together with the crowd to enjoy Olia's gorgeous Eastern European grill inspired menu. What a treat!
Each chef brought a completely different perspective to cooking over the coals and it was so much fun to cook with them. Stay tuned for the next episode with Ben Chapman.
Make a booking at Honey & Smoke Honey & Smoke, 216 Great Portland St, W1W 5QW https://honeyandco.co.uk/smoke/ @honeyandsmokerestaurant
Follow @oliahercules. Get her award-winning cookbooks #Mamushka & #Kaukasis and look our for her third cookbook #SummerKitchens coming out next year.
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Following a slight career detour singing in a successful pop band, Donal Skehan realised food was his true calling and started his popular blog “The Good Mood Food Blog” which chronicled quick cooking dishes and cheap meals. This soon led to cookbooks, tv appearances, a youtube channel and more. Celebrating honest, hearty home cooked food Donal has established himself as a trusted cook and food writer with a loyal global following. We talk to Donal about how his pop career became a food one and much more!
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Sandor Ellix Katz is an American food writer and fermentation revivalist. His books Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyse a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, the New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” We spoke to Sandor about his life in a commune, what he's discovered recently and much more!
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Tim Anderson is a chef, food writer, and MasterChef champion. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Tim studied Japanese food culture at university and lived in Japan for two years. After moving to London, he won MasterChef in 2011 and his epic Japanese soul-food restaurant, Nanban, opened in 2015 in Brixton. We talk to Tim about his new book Tokyo Stories and seemingly endless food offerings of Tokyo on every level...
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Ep5 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.
Recorded live at the V&A museum, in the last episode of the series, we chatted to three artists from the Eating section of the exhibition: Karen Guthrie, Jasleen Kaur and Michael Rakowitz, all who are challenging the way we think about eating and especially to think about cooking and eating as creative acts.
Visit the exhibition: Listeners can get 40% off tickets to the exhibition using promo code: FOOD40 @vamuseum
More information on the artists:
Karen Guthrie - House of Ferment https://www.somewhere.org.uk/
Jasleen Kaur - The Five Ks and Tala Curry Measure http://jasleenkaur.co.uk/
Michael Rakowitz - Spoils, Enemy Kitchen - http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/
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Ep4 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.
Recorded live at the V&A museum, in this episode we chatted to artist Kathrin Böhm of Company Drinks about her part in the trading section of the exhibition. Company Drinks is a community enterprise in Barking & Dagenham in East London that brings people together to pick, process and produce drinks.
Visit the exhibition Listeners can get 40% off tickets to the exhibition using promo code: FOOD40 @vamuseum
Company Drinks: @goingpickingKathrin Böhm: @k_athrinbohm
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Ep3 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.
Recorded live at the V&A museum, in this episode we chatted to California-based artists Fallen Fruit - David Burns and Austin Young - about their part in the farming section of the exhibition. David and Austin make public art which explores the role of fruit in creating shared culture. By foraging depictions of fruit from the V&A's collection, they have created two unique installations for the exhibition - beautiful wallpaper which draws on the horticultural history of the site and a series of fruit maps which plot the locations of fruit trees growing in public space in London.
Visit the exhibition Listeners can get 40% off tickets to the exhibition using promo code: FOOD40 @vamuseum
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Ep2 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.
In the grand setting of the V&A museum we chatted to artist Fernando Laposse about his part in the compost section of the exhibition - Totomoxtle, a beautiful new decorative veneer material made with the colourful husks of heirloom Mexican corn. We talked everything from seed banks to saying yes when you mean no, from biodiversity and the future of growing, to rural farmers on facebook.
Visit the exhibition https://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson
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In series 5 of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're meeting producers, growers and makers who supply some of our essentials. This week we're talking all things fruit and veg!
Self-confessed veg nerd, Guy Singh-Watson has over the last 30 years taken Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme delivering to around 50,000 customers a week. This episode is a deep dive into the trials and tribulations of producing organic food, modern farming and what it's like to deal with selling fruit and veg to supermarkets.
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This week we're talking to Ben Mackinnon of E5 Bakehouse all about bread, flour and ancient grains as part of our Makers, Growers and Producers season.
Ben set up E5 Bakehouse in 2011, initially baking sourdough in the pizza oven of a local restaurant in the mornings before they opened. We talk to Ben about his mission to revive the lost art of baking using traditional techniques, natural ingredients and forgotten flours. We learn about their famous sourdough and hear about how they are developing an agroforestry arable farm in Suffolk with a focus on making the transition to a diversified farming system, and localised supply chain for bread.
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In May, we collaborated with writer Rosie Sykes and historian Polly Russell to create a special dinner for the opening of the Eat Cambridge Food Festival. The evening included a food history chat by Polly Russell and a delicious feast cooked by Itamar, Sarit and Rosie inspired by an extraordinary royal medieval manuscript. In this episode we hear Polly tells us about the magnificent scroll, The Forme of Cury, which inspired the epic feast and all the best things about a medieval banquet.
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In series 5 of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're meeting producers, growers and makers who supply some of our essentials. This week we're talking Honey.
Dale and Sarah founded Bermondsey Street Bees, a sustainable beekeeping practice and artisan honey business, in 2007 with just eight hives on the rooftop of their Victorian warehouse on Bermondsey Street in London. Every honey produced by Bermondsey Street Bees is single-source and raw, preserving all of the nutritional benefits. We chat to Dale and Sarah about how they keep their bees, the difference in quality from mass-produced industrial honey and the fascinating history of honey.
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In series 5 of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're meeting producers, growers and makers who supply some of our essentials. This week we're talking coffee.
Founded in 2002 in an old butcher’s shop in Hackney from which they take their name, our friends at Climpson & Sons source, roast and craft the finest coffees in London. They have supplied us with the most delicious coffee since the very early days of Honey & Co. We will talk to Danny Davis and Matt Randell about how they find the best coffee beans around the world, how to ensure consistent flavour and quality, and demystify all the different brewing options available to us.
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Episode 1 of a mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic new exhibition, FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.
The exhibition looks at how innovative individuals, communities and organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food.
Sarit and Itamar chat with curators Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Sloan and meet some of the exhibitors.
We'll be hosting live podcast recordings at the V&A on 25th June and 29th July. Get tickets: vam.ac.uk/whatson
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In series 5 of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're meeting producers, growers and makers who supply some of our essentials. This week it's olive oil!
Martin and Maggie of Mother's Garden have been farming arbequina olives and living an adventure in the Priorat mountains of Catalonia, south of Barcelona, since January 2001. Their cold-pressed oil is a lively, delicate and fresh olive oil and unlike any other we have tried. Martin tells us about their journey to the farm, how olive oil is produced and how we can choose the best olive oil.
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In series 5 of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're meeting producers, growers and makers who supply some of our essentials. This week we're talking all things coffee.
Joanna Brennan co-founded Pump Street Bakery with her father in the village of Orford in Suffolk. After mastering the art of naturally-leavened bread, they ventured into making chocolate from beans imported directly from single estates and cooperatives around the world. We talk to Joanna about the obsessive care and attention to detail that goes into the roasting profile of each bean and how each stage requires a careful eye, and nose. Chocoholics and others alike, this one's for you!
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Welcome back to series 5 of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. In this season we're meeting producers, growers and makers who create some of the essential ingredients cooking. The people you’re going to hear from, supply us, inspire us and improve our cooking. We hope you’ll have fun geeking out with us about all things butter, chocolate, coffee, bread, fruit & veg, olive oil and of course... honey. Enjoy!
This episode is all about butter; how to make it, how should we eat it and why is it yellow? We are joined by butter aficionados Grant Harrington of Ampersand Cultured Butter and food writer, Eve Hemingway. After working in fine-dining, Grant was inspired to learn more about traditional butter-making. He set up shop and now makes butter that is unlike anything we’ve tried before; rich, dense and creamy. Food writer Eve Hemingway helps us to delve deep into the history and culture of butter making.
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Michael Rakowitz, Iraqi-American artist of Fourth Plinth commission 'The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist' and author of upcoming cookbook A House With A Date Palm Will Never Starve, to be released in the summer of 2019. Rakowitz’s Lamassu is made from empty tins of Iraqi date syrup, alluding to the fact that historical monuments are not the only thing destroyed by war; they also decimate local economies, including the industry for date syrup which collapsed as a result of the war.
A House With A Date Palm Will Never Starve by Michael Rakowitz is out June 2019, published by Plinth
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Twitter: @PlinthUkArt
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Rosemary Shrager, celebrity chef, cookery school doyenne and author of Rosemary Shrager’s Cookery Course: 150 tried and tested recipes to be a better cook. She has recently appeared on popular television series The Real Marigold Hotel and is an acclaimed cookery teacher with her own school, Rosemary Shrager’s Cookery School. She came to talk to us about the best ways to teach cooking, how she adapts recipes from her travels and all the bizarre encounters she has had along the way.
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Nik is a writer, photographer, and recipe developer behind the critically acclaimed blog, A Brown Table. We chatted to him after a special event cooked by us from Nik’s book – Season: Big Flavours, Beautiful Food. Nik's recipes take a journey all the way from India by way of the American South to California. He talked to us about his childhood food in India, how he uses his scientific skills in cooking and why he took basmati rice to his in-laws' house.
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Niki’s first book The Flavour Thesaurus, published in 2011, examines why one flavour works with another and looks at how to pair your ingredients from traditional combinations such as pork & apple and interesting but unlikely-sounding couples. Niki’s inspiring new book, Lateral Cooking, grew out of the experiments with flavour combinations that went into her bestselling debut. We spoke to her about her path into food writing, how she developed the categories and her no-churn lemon ice cream
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Anissa Helou is a chef, food writer, and journalist with an unparalleled knowledge of the culinary heritage of the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and North Africa , author of FEAST: Food of the Islamic World. She talks to us about the major task of covering the entire Islamic World in a cookbook, how she gathered a comprehensive collection of the finest and most flavourful recipes from her time living and travelling widely in the region, and how to eat a camel hump.
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Asma Khan has royal Mughali ancestry and grew up in a palace with 20 cooks. After gaining a PHD, she set up a supper club in her home in Kensington. Lovingly recreating Indian food from family recipes that go back generations, her cooking drew much acclaim and led to a permanent restaurant in central London, Darjeeling Express. We talked about filming for Chef's Table and her Second Daughters Fund which supports the often neglected and disadvantaged second daughter in the Darjeeling town of Kurseong.
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Caroline Eden is a writer specialising in the former Soviet Union. Over the past decade she has filed stories from Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. She came to talk about her book 'Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light' is the tale of a journey between three great cities. We listened to Caroline’s stories of the remarkable individuals she met such as the last fisherwoman of Bulgaria and the inspiring meals that she ate on the way.
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After working in some of London’s best-loved restaurants, Max Halley realised that the sandwich, humanity’s greatest invention, was due a renaissance. In 2015 Max opened Max’s Sandwich Shop in Crouch End, London. He features creations such as the Ham, Egg ‘N’ Chips: slow-cooked ham hock, fried egg, piccalilli, shoe string fries and malt vinegar mayo. We talked about his sandwich philosophy, what's wrong with sourdough and the best things to blend into mayonnaise.
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Anja Dunk was born in Wales to a German mother and a Welsh father. Her childhood was spent predominantly in Wales but also in Germany and South East Asia, where she moved to and from over the early years of her life. Her love of food started at home but has grown since working in cafes and restaurants over the years. Anja spoke to us about her wonderful new book Strudel, Noodles and Dumplings, proving that there is more to German food than Bratwurst and Black Forest gateau.
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Sybil Kapoor's new book, Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound, uses cleverly simplified kitchen theory and a selection of tempting recipes to reveal how we can unlock the power of our five senses and take our cooking to the next level. Sybil talked to us about the important differences between: Taste, Flavour (smell), Texture (touch and sound), Temperature (touch) and Appearance. She also told us all about her life in the world of food from London to New York and back again.
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Russell has built a life and career out of his love for the north Italian city of Venice. In his latest book, Venice Four Seasons of Home Cooking, he returns to the city to immerse himself in the authentic flavours of the region and the culinary traditions of the city throughout the seasons.
Everything from summer picnics to warming winter soup is covered in easy Italian family recipes: from radicchio, pancetta and chickpea salad to duck rigatoni, and from Bellini sorbet to chocolate and hazelnut semifreddo. We talk about the rare and intimate glimpse into the life of the city, its hidden architectural gems, its secret places, its embedded history, the colour and bustle of daily life, and the food merchants and growers who make Venice so surprisingly vibrant.
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It’s not often that you get to meet a living legend: Fabrizia Lanza’s cookery school in Sicily is a food lover’s mecca. Fabrizia’s family have been in Sicily for centuries and through their school and farm they preserve knowledge and flavours passed down through the generations. We talked about preserving food and preserving traditions, drank Sicilian wine and cooked some of Fabrizia’s amazing food for everyone who came.
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In a small converted greengrocers in South London (her ice cream shed), Kitty Travers patiently creates an array of iced delights – fresh ice creams that taste of the real, whole fruits; and eye-popping, palate-tickling sorbets that will enliven the taste buds of all those lucky enough to sample them. Kitty came to talk to us about how she fell in love with making ice cream and her new book, La Grotta Ices, containing over 100 inventive flavours of real ice cream, sorbet and granita.
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We had a very special evening celebrating the launch of our new book Honey & Co: At Home – Middle Eastern Recipes From Our Kitchen, out now! Usually The Food Talks involve one or both of us chatting to our favourite people in the food world but for one night only the tables were turned and our producer Hester got to grill us for a change. We talked about home food throughout our lives, what we cook in our precious weekends and our favourite recipes for each other...
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Signe is a Norwegian-American cook and the author of How to Hygge and Scandilicious. She joined us to talk about her latest book Solo: The Joy of Cooking for One. Celebrating the joy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, the book is all about becoming more selfish in the kitchen and is full of recipes for happy solo cooking. From uncomplicated no-cook fast food to one-pot dishes that will transform your daily routine. We talked at length about the perfect fish finger sandwich, how to shop for solo dishes and how much dill is too much dill.
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Self-taught chef Stephen Harris transformed what was once called a “grotty rundown pub by the sea” on the coast in Kent into a Michelin-starred restaurant that has been named Britain’s number one. At The Sportsman, Stephen uses the best ingredients available in the immediate land surrounding the pub – the pork is sourced from the farm next door; they make their own butter and the salt is sourced from the sea. We chatted about the transformation of the pub and of Stephen himself as well as his new book.
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Nick is one of three founders of Hodmedod’s, Britain’s pulse and grain pioneers. They’ve been working with British farmers since 2012 to bring a growing range of forgotten and new crops to British kitchens, from fava beans and carlin peas to quinoa, camelina and naked barley. We use a lot of these products in the restaurants and so we were very excited to have Nick join us to share the Hodmedod’s story.
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After a life-changing meal at Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkley in 2010, Samin began cooking there; a job which determined the course of her life. The chefs she cooked with used four key principles to make any food taste great if used in the right way; salt, fat, acid and heat. Samin spent years creating her book in order to teach others how to master the art of good cooking. We spoke to Samin about the serendipity of her journey into food, how we can develop our palettes and which feta reigns supreme.
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We can’t think of anything better than cooking up a feast with Sabrina Ghayour, the queen of simple and flavourful Middle-Eastern cooking! She joined us to talk about her new book, Feasts, which features tailored menus and dozens of recipes for celebrations and occasions with family and friends. We learn all about her debut £2.50 supper club, boil-in-the-bag rice memories and what it's like to be a crisp aficionado...
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Reem Kassis left Jerusalem for the US at the age of 17, gained four graduate degrees and set her sights firmly on a stellar business career. She promised herself she would never end up in the kitchen like previous generations of women in her family, yet Reem found herself appreciating the simple pleasures of cooking for and feeding the people you love. She came to talk to us about her debut cookbook The Palestinian Table, how to define Palestinian food and how to make the best Baba Ghanouj.
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A favourite restaurant of ours, The River Café has championed simple, good quality Italian cooking since 1987. We are so happy to have Joseph come and talk to us about 30 years of the River Cafe, what makes a restaurant ride high in the London food scene for so long, his unique experience working with the Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, and of course a cherished subject of ours – Italian food.
The new cookbook River Cafe 30 marks three decades of memories and good food at the restaurant. The team revisited and updated the best dishes from the first blue cookbook and introduce 30 new favourites from the menus today – panzanella, ravioli with ricotta, raw tomato and basil, risotto with porcini and girolles and the outstanding chocolate nemesis. We can’t wait to cook and share with you some of these recipes.
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Most of us want to forget that back-to-school feeling by kicking off our shoes and hunkering down with a soul-soaring supper – one that can be eaten with friends at the table, with book in hand by the fire, or in front of the TV. In The Sunday Night Book Rosie shares how to make Sunday night the best evening of the week, by perfecting the last, lazy meal of the weekend. All the recipes in the book are simple and make clever use of store cupboard staples and leftovers. Rosie came to talk to us about cooking in small, high-stakes, destination restaurants in the British countryside with the likes of Joyce Molyneux, how she ended up recipe testing for Delia Smith and why it’s ok to drink cocktails on a Sunday night.
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Roï Hendel is based in Paris but travels the world in search of extraordinary spices… a dream job, in our eyes! Working exclusively with organic small scale farms and wild harvests around the world, Shira Spices aims to introduce the concept of terroir to the spice world. By working directly with farmers and NGOs, the hope is to ensure a fair income to all of their partners. We chatted to Roï about the life of a modern day spice trader and sampled his spices under expert guidance.
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Killian Fox is a food writer who regularly contributes to The Observer Food Monthly and many other publications and he is the co-founder of The Gannet: an online magazine that explores people’s lives through the food they cook and eat. Killian gave us an insight into the world of food writing, tell us about the realities of having such a dream job, and we heard about his new book The Gannet’s Gastronomic Miscellany, which collects together interesting stories and facts about food – covering everything from radioactive bananas to 5,000-year-old bog butter.
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Rachel McCormack is a broadcaster and writer, known mostly as a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet. The proud daughter of a Macallan drinker, Rachel was introduced to whisky via flu-alleviating hot toddies from an alarmingly early age and has never looked back. In her first book Chasing The Dram, Finding The Spirit of Whisky Rachel sets out to discover why Scotland had no tradition of cooking or eating with whisky. Rachel visited us at Honey & Spice to impart her newfound wisdom on the subject. We tried some whisky and heard all about her year-long adventure across Scotland in search for the spirit of whisky.
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Fuchsia Dunlop is a cook, food-writer, broadcaster and author of some of our favourite books, specialising in Chinese cuisine. Fuchsia visited us at Honey & Spice where we talked about her latest book, Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China which is full of beautiful recipes from the Jiangnan province in eastern China, where she likes to eat in Chinatown and the best tools and ingredients for cooking authentic Chinese food in your own kitchen.
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We’ve been following Mark Ogus and Owen Barratt of Monty’s Deli across London for the last few years now – from their Maltby Street market stall to their place under the railway arch and now to their long-awaited bricks and mortar place in Hoxton – all for the joy of their bagels. One of the few places to make their own salt beef and pastrami, the guys have also perfected their own bagel recipe, pickles, house mustard and of course chicken soup, all inspired by the food of Mark’s Jewish grandfather, Monty. Mark joined us to chat pickles, crowdfunding and Jewish soul food.
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Nasrin Rooghani is a chef with Mazi Mas, the social enterprise that hires female immigrant chefs in the UK to be part of a roaming restaurant. Born in the north of Iran next to Azerbaijan, she later moved to Tehran, so grew up eating and learning about Azeri and Iranian cuisines. Taking influence from her mother and grandmother’s cooking, she taught herself to cook as a teenager. Nasrin explains the impact of war on her childhood, how it feels to belong to two countries, and shares her secret saffron tips.
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Ed Smith from the hugely influential blog Rocket & Squash joined us in our deli, Honey & Spice, to talk about life in the food blogosphere and about his excellent new cookbook, On The Side, a book that puts side dishes centre stage. Ever since we got this book we wanted to cook a meal consisting of side dishes only, as the selection in this book is so good it really doesn’t need a main course. Listen to hear about Ed's best hangover cure, how he transitioned from lawyer to food writer and how the programme 'Ready Steady Cook' influenced his career.
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Olia Hercules was born in the south of Ukraine. After studying and working as a journalist in the UK, she retrained as a chef at Leiths. Olia visited us earlier this year talk about her first book Mamushka, a personal journey that celebrates her family recipes from Ukraine and across eastern Europe. This time she visited us to chat about her new cookbook Kaukasis - a culinary journey through Georgia, Azerbaijan and beyond. Olia explains how the Soviet Union affected the cuisine of the region, her eventful research trip and how to cook this food at home.
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Angela Frenda is the Food Editor of the prestigious Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Angela has been at the forefront of the relatively new world of food writing in Italy. She has also written two cookbooks, Racconti di cucina (Cooking Stories) and La Cucina Felice (The Happy Kitchen). Angela tells us about her transition from political journalism to food, why food writing is still new to Italians, and even shares her favourite places to eat in Italy.
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Dr. Annie Gray is a food historian, cook, broadcaster and author. She often appears on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet as their resident food historian. She came to Honey & Spice to tell us all about her latest book, The Greedy Queen, part culinary-biography, part-gastronomic exploration of Queen Victoria. Annie tells us all about her deliciously varied career, Queen Victoria's complex relationship with food and the most extravagant dishes eaten at the monarch's famous banquets.
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Chetna Makan was a semi-finalist on series 5 of The Great British Bake Off, wowing the judges and the audience with her advance techniques and use of complex flavours. Since the Bake Off she has been extremely busy. She came to Honey & Spice to talk about her newest book Chai, Chaat & Chutney, a journey through the street foods of India. Chetna talks to us about the differences between the street food of Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Chennai, how she has taken inspiration from the dishes and created delicious recipes and what it was like to be a contestant on the country's favourite baking show.
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Rachel Roddy is a multi award-winning Guardian food columnist and author based in Rome and Sicily. She speaks to us about her new cookbook Two Kitchens: Family Recipes from Sicily and Rome. Her book celebrates the simple, everyday dishes from her two distant but connected kitchens. We hear all about her favourite ingredients and recipes from tomato and salted ricotta salad, caponata and baked Sicilian pasta to lemon crumble.
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This week we’re joined by the dynamic duo, Laura Jackson and Alice Levine. The TV and radio presenters met at a jumble sale a few years ago. They really hit it off and started running supper clubs together. Their events quickly became London’s hottest dinner party. The girls have written the rulebook to end all rulebooks on entertaining in your own home, Round to Ours. Listen if you want to know the ultimate tips for having people ‘round to yours’, how to keep an eclectic mix of guests dining long into the night and what happens when you put the dirty dancing soundtrack on at a dinner party…
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Allan Jenkins, Editor of the Observer Food Monthly, came to Honey and Spice to tell us about his new book, Plot 29: A Memoir. The book is an engaging, special and very personal account of Allan’s childhood in 1960s Plymouth when he and his brother were rescued from their care home and fostered by an elderly couple.
Allan is interviewed by our own Sarit Packer about how he came to write this memoir, why he grows plants from seed and the joy to be found in sharing food and flowers with people you love.
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This week we’re joined by the fascinating Kristen Schnepp of the Gringa Dairy in Peckham, London. Kristen left a corporate banking life, to follow her passion and make Mexican cheese. The Gringa Dairy started in April 2013 and she’s never looked back! Kristen is interviewed by our own Elizabeth Hallet about how she made a drastic career change, what it’s like to work under a railway arch and much more.
Visit the Gringa Dairy website to find out more: http://gringadairy.com/
Produced by Hester Cant with recording assistance from Hannah-Phoebe Bowen.
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Bee Wilson is one of the most interesting and engaging people writing about food today. Bee came over to talk to us about how our food habits are created – what makes us like or dislike certain foods, how we use food to set ourselves apart or come together – and most importantly how can we control and change these habits.
Bee Wilson First Bite, How we Learn to Eat
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