Honey & Co: The Food Sessions

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S06E06 Nothing Fancy with Alison Roman Dec 13, 2019

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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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S06E05 Mike Solomonov Dec 06, 2019

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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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S06E04 Nancy Singleton Hachisu on Japan Nov 29, 2019

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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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Honey & Smoke Birthday Special with Gill Meller Nov 15, 2019

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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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Honey & Smoke Birthday Special with Ben Chapman Nov 15, 2019

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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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Honey & Smoke Birthday Special with Olia Hercules Nov 05, 2019

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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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S06E03 Donal Skehan Nov 01, 2019

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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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S06E02 The art of fermentation with Sandor Katz Oct 25, 2019

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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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S06E01 Tokyo Stories with Tim Anderson Oct 18, 2019

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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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V&A Special - Ep 5 - Karen Guthrie, Jasleen Kaur and Michael Rakowitz Aug 30, 2019

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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

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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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