Honey & Co: The Food Sessions

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S08E01 CHASING SMOKE: Egypt May 13, 2021

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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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Order a copy of Chasing Smoke

Follow Patsy @PatriciaNiven and see more of her beautiful work at www.patricianiven.com

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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Honey & Co: The Food Sessions MIX TAPE May 06, 2021

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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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With thanks to:

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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S07E08 Who Run The World? The Women of Honey & Co Mar 08, 2020

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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

Instagram: @honeyandco

#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Producer: Miranda Hinkley

Manager: Louisa Cornford

Vocals: Kristine Kruz

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S07E07 Who Run The World? Fay Maschler Feb 28, 2020

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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

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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S07E06 Who Run The World? Darina Allen Feb 21, 2020

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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

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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S07E05 Who Run The World? Lisa Markwell Feb 14, 2020

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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

Instagram: @honeyandco

#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Producer: Miranda Hinkley

Manager: Louisa Cornford

Vocals: Kristine Kruz

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S07E04 Who Run The World? Romy Gill Feb 07, 2020

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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.

Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!

Email us at podcasts@honeyandco.co.uk

Instagram: @honeyandco

#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Producer: Miranda Hinkley

Manager: Louisa Cornford

Vocals: Kristine Kruz

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S07E03 Who Run The World? Sheila Dillon Jan 31, 2020

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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!

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

Instagram: @honeyandco @thesheiladillon

#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Producer: Miranda Hinkley

Manager: Louisa Cornford

Vocals: Kristine Kruz

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S07E02 Who Run The World? Claudia Roden Jan 24, 2020

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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.

Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!

Email us at podcasts@honeyandco.co.uk

Instagram: @honeyandco

#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Listen to episode 1 with Andi Oliver

Producer: Miranda Hinkley

Manager: Louisa Cornford

Vocals: Kristine Kruz

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S07E01 Who Run The World? Andi Oliver Jan 17, 2020

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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.

Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!

Email us at podcasts@honeyandco.co.uk

Instagram: @honeyandco @andioliver

#HoneyAndCo #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Producer: Miranda Hinkley Manager: Louisa Cornford Vocals: Kristine Kruz

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