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My guest today is Melissa Thompson
Melissa is a writer, author and broadcaster. A columnist for BBC Good Food magazine, she is also ambassador for Weber Grills and an award-winning writer covering food for publications including The Guardian, Waitrose Magazine and Stylist.
Her debut book Motherland was published in 2022 to critical acclaim. It is an extraordinary combination of recipes from Jamaica and an exploration into the islandâs history and the influences on the food.
By others sheâs been described as "a creative powerhouse" : On her own website Melissa describes herself as a London-based food & drink writer with a love of ice cream, fried chicken and anti-racism.
Thank you so much to the brilliant Maldon Salt for sponsoring this season of Desert Island Dishes. I am a huge fan and long-time genuine customer so to be working with them is a dream come true.
Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you enjoy today's episode and you can find me over on Instagram @Desertislanddishes or over on the website www.desertislanddishes.co. You can also sign up for my newsletter where I send you one easy and delicious weeknight recipe over at www.dinnertonight.substack.com
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Matt Adlard, social media star and self taught pastry chef talks us through his Dream Dinner Party this week. The concept is simple: who would you invite to your Dream Dinner Party if you could invite 4 people, dead or alive? We ask a different guest every week and find out exactly what the menu would be at their Dream Dinner Party.
Thank you so much or listening.Thank you very much to our sponsor for this season: Maldon Salt. Maldon Salt are passionate about the love of food and helping connect people in moments of pleasure from food and drink and so are the perfect match for Desert Island Dishes. Find out more here.
Thank you so much or listening to the dream dinner party, these really are fun to do so I hope they're fun to listen to. Find more at https://desertislanddishes.co/
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My guest today is Marco Pierre White. The original rock and roll chef, Marco Pierre White was the chef who cooked like an angel, looked like a rock star and changed the way the world thought of British food. Born in Leeds, to a chef father and Italian mother he was the third of four sons. As a teenager he travelled to London with just ÂŁ7.36 in his pocket to pursue a career in cooking.
He trained under some of the most famous chefs in the world - Pierre Koffman and Albert Roux. He opened his own restaurant in 1987, aged 25 and at the age of just 33 he became the first British chef to win 3 Michelin stars and the youngest chef in the world to achieve such a thing...He would also be the first chef to hand back his Michelin stars. He now runs the Rudloe Arms in Bath where we are today working with his daughter. He says family is the driving force behind everything he does.
Thank you so much to the brilliant Maldon Salt for sponsoring this season of Desert Island Dishes. I am a huge fan and long-time genuine customer so to be working with them is a dream come true.
Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you enjoy today's episode and you can find me over on Instagram @Desertislanddishes or over on the website www.desertislanddishes.co. You can also sign up for my newsletter where I send you one easy and delicious weeknight recipe over at www.dinnertonight.substack.com
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Ed Smith is this weeks guest on the Dream Dinner Party. Ed is a cook and food writer based in London. He writes award winning cookbooks, recipe columns for magazines and newspapers, create content on Instagram, and for over a decade ran rocketandsquash.com as a celebrated recipe and restaurant blog. He now writes on Substack under the same name. Ed was on Desert Island Dishes a few years ago and if you enjoy today's episode, it's well worth going back and having a listen.
Thank you so much or listening.Thank you very much to our sponsor for this season: Maldon Salt. Maldon Salt are passionate about the love of food and helping connect people in moments of pleasure from food and drink and so are the perfect match for Desert Island Dishes. Find out more here.
Thank you so much or listening to the dream dinner party, these really are fun to do so I hope they're fun to listen to. Find more at https://desertislanddishes.co/
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My guest today is Eleanor Wilkinson.
Eleanor is a content creator and recipe developer from East Yorkshire. Having always loved food and cooking she made the decision to quit her job in the charity sector and embark on turning her passion into a full time career.
She started her series, One Pot, One Portion - recipes for people who eat, cook, or live alone but are tired of washing up and was soon getting millions of views on social media and quickly amassed some 600,000 followers on Instagram. She has now released a cookbook of the same name and counts the one and only Nigella Lawson as a huge fan.
Nigella described the book as a âbrilliant, beyond brilliant ideaâ and we know Nigella is never wrong.
Thank you so much to the brilliant Maldon Salt for sponsoring this season of Desert Island Dishes. I am a huge fan and long-time genuine customer so to be working with them is a dream come true.
Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you enjoy today's episode and you can find me over on Instagram @Desertislanddishes or over on the website www.desertislanddishes.co. You can also sign up for my newsletter where I send you one easy and delicious weeknight recipe over at www.dinnertonight.substack.com
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Welcome to another episode of our side dish: The Dream Dinner Party and our guest today is Gizzi Erskine
This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us their dream dinner party. They are allowed to invite 4 guests â dead or alive because really I think personally 5 people is the optimum number for a great dinner party. And they are going to be talking us through their dream menu â what are they going to serve when there are no limits or practicalities to think about.
We have a returning guest for you this week in the form of Gizzi Erskine. Gizzie was a guest on Desert Island Dishes quite a few years ago now â in the early-ish years â so well worth scrolling back and having a listen to that as Gizzie is a lot of fun, sheâs very passionate about food and there were some delicious dishes in there. I should say that I know some of you listen to desert island dishes as a family â maybe you have it on the speaker when youâre cooking Sunday lunch and this one â itâs not risquĂ© or anything but there are things talked about that perhaps you wouldnât want young ears to hear or enquire about.
Thank you so much or listening.Thank you very much to our sponsor for this season: Maldon Salt. Maldon Salt are passionate about the love of food and helping connect people in moments of pleasure from food and drink and so are the perfect match for Desert Island Dishes. Find out more here.
Thank you so much or listening to the dream dinner party, these really are fun to do so I hope they're fun to listen to.
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My guest today is Matt Adlard
Matt is a self taught baker, author and social media pastry sensation.
You may have known him in the early days online as The Topless Baker and heâs known for hosting his own show on the Food Network as well as being a judge on various different baking shows including the BBCâs Platinum Pudding Competition.
Despite growing up above his fathers Michelin starred restaurant, Matt says he had little interest in pursuing a career in food and fell into baking as a hobby while studying at university. He is entirely self taught and now teaches his millions of followers how to to become a professional level baker through his videos and courses. He has an online cooking school called Bake it Better and published his first book last year with the same name.
Thank you so much to the brilliant Maldon Salt for sponsoring this season of Desert Island Dishes. I am a huge fan and long-time genuine customer so to be working with them is a dream come true.
Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you enjoy today's episode and you can find me over on Instagram @Desertislanddishes or over on the website www.desertislanddishes.co. You can also sign up for my newsletter where I send you one easy and delicious weeknight recipe over at www.dinnertonight.substack.com
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Welcome to another episode of our side dish: The Dream Dinner Party. This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us their dream dinner party. They are allowed to invite 4 guests â dead or alive because really I think personally 5 people is the optimum number for a great dinner party. And they are going to be talking us through their dream menu â what are they going to serve when there are no limits or practicalities to think about.
These mini episodes are really fun to record â and I do feel like they give us another insight into the guest. Who you choose to invite, and why is really interesting and how you approach the whole question. Clare as you will know probably already but also because she was on Desert Island Dishes last week â is a 3 starred Michelin chef so as you can imagine her menu did not disappoint. I only have to hope it wouldnât be me picking up the bill at the end.
Thank you so much or listening.Thank you very much to our sponsor for this season: Maldon Salt. Maldon Salt are passionate about the love of food and helping connect people in moments of pleasure from food and drink and so are the perfect match for Desert Island Dishes. Find out more here.
Thank you so much or listening to the dream dinner party, these really are fun to do so I hope they're fun to listen to.
This episode was produced by Rutherford Productions.
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My guest today is Ruby Wax
Ruby really needs no introduction from me, sheâs a household name. Sheâs a woman of so many talents - sheâs a comedian, Actress, author, writer and mental health activist.
Her life in show business began when she went to the RSC - she says of herself she doesnât think she was a good actress but Alan Rickman saw in her a talent for comedy and that was what started her on her road to success. She went on to become a TV star interviewing some of the worldâs most famous people from Donald Trump to Goldie Hawn, The Spice Girls and OG Simpson.
Her second career has been as a mental health campaigner. She trained as a psychotherapist and got a Masters from Oxford in mindfulness based cognitive therapy. Her dissertation formed the basis for her first sell out stage show, she launched the Frazzled Cafe in 2017 and was also awarded an OBE in 2015. For tickets to Ruby's show find out more on her website here and follow her on instagram here.
Thank you so much to the brilliant Maldon Salt for sponsoring this season of Desert Island Dishes. I am a huge fan and long-time genuine customer so to be working with them is a dream come true.
Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you enjoy today's episode and you can find me over on Instagram @Desertislanddishes or over on the website www.desertislanddishes.co. You can also sign up for my newsletter where I send you one easy and delicious weeknight recipe over at www.dinnertonight.substack.com
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Welcome to another episode of our side dish: The Dream Dinner Party. This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us their dream dinner party. They are allowed to invite 4 guests â dead or alive because really I think personally 5 people is the optimum number for a great dinner party. And they are going to be talking us through their dream menu.
We have a returning guest for you this week in the form of the brilliant Sunday times best selling author Dawn O'Porter. I was lucky enough to catch Dawn in the lead up to her brand new book being published. Honey Bee has been described as Funny, relatable and incredibly entertaining - much like Dawn herself! It's a gorgeous celebration of female friendship. Another brilliant novel from Dawn - she is a woman of many talents, and so much fun to talk to. Buy Honey Bee from all good bookshops or find it here.
I hope you enjoy today's episode if you do â itâs worth going back and listening to dawnâs main episode of desert island dishes as itâs a goodie. A few years ago now but thatâs the nice thing about these interviews, they are evergreen.
Thank you very much to our sponsor for this season: Maldon Salt. Maldon Salt are passionate about the love of food and helping connect people in moments of pleasure from food and drink and so are the perfect match for Desert Island Dishes. Find out more here.
Thank you so much or listening to the dream dinner party, these really are fun to do so I hope they're fun to listen to.
This episode was produced by Rutherford Productions.
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My guest today is Clare Smyth (MBE). Clare is one of the world's most respected chefs. She is the first and only British female chef to be awarded three Michelin stars which she achieved for her restaurant Core by Clare Smyth in Notting Hill. Growing up on a farm in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, her passion for food began at a young age and even inspired some of her most famous dishes from her restaurant.
By the time she was 17 she had graduated from culinary school and moved to London to work with and learn from the world best chefs. She went on to train in some of the most celebrated kitchens in the world including with Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay. She would go on to break new ground by becoming Chef Patron of three Michelin-starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay before going on to open her own restaurant in 2017. It took less than 3 years for her to be awarded her own 3 Michelin stars. Clare has received numerous awards including the title of the World's Best Female Chef 2018 And in 2013 Clare was awarded an MBE for services to the hospitality industry.
Thank you so much to the brilliant Maldon Salt for sponsoring this season of Desert Island Dishes. I am a huge fan and long-time genuine customer so to be working with them is a dream come true.
Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you enjoy today's episode and you can find me over on Instagram @Desertislanddishes or over on the website www.desertislanddishes.co. You can also sign up for my newsletter where I send you one easy and delicious weeknight recipe over at www.dinnertonight.substack.com
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My guest today is the founder of Hoppers - Karan Gokani. Combining his passion for cooking with his love of the country of Sri Lanka he has built a restaurant empire celebrating the food of Sri Lanka and Southern India. I went to Sri Lanka last year for the first time and completely fell in love with the food. Iâve been to Hoppers many times so I kind of knew what to expect but honestly itâs just the most amazing country and the most delicious food so it was brilliant to hear from Karan about his love for it it too.
I know I told you that this was going to just be a little short season for the month of February but already we have come to the last episode of this mini season â itâs gone very quickly but fear not as we are already recording the next â so hopefully wont be too long to wait.
Another reminder to any one listening â if you havenât yet subscribed to my newsletter Dinner Tonight, please do think about it. Itâs one easy weeknight recipe, often one pan, mostly 30 minutes or less and I look forwards to writing it every week and itâs honestly amazing that there are so many people reading it. Over 22,000 of you now which is amazing but thereâs always room for more. https://dinnertonight.substack.com/
I do hope you enjoy todays episode and thank you for listening. If you donât already, come and follow me on Instagram @desertislandishes and you can sign up for the newsletter and find a whole host of different recipes at www.desertislanddishes.co
Thank you again to HG Walter our sponsor for this month of Desert Island Dishes, and thank you for listening!
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This week we have Ravneet Gill on The Dream Dinner Partyâ she is an extraordinary pastry chef who just makes the most amazing cakes and puddings. Sheâs also a TV presenter and cook book author â her third â Baking for Pleasure is out now and itâs all about baking for the pure joy of it. She has been a guest on Desert Island Dishes â a few years ago but well worth a listen. I knew Rav loves to entertain so was great to hear more about that and how she envisages her Dream Dinner Party.
Thank you to our sponsor for this month â the brilliant family run butcher HG Walter. www.hgwalter.com
I do hope you enjoyed todays episode and make sure youâre subscribed to catch all episodes of The Dream Dinner Party and Desert Island Dishes. Thank you so much for listening bye!
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My guest today is Bee Wilson. In all honesty, Bee is one of the most interesting and thought provoking food writers and historians weâve ever known.
She is the author of 8 books about food and eating. Her books have won multiple awards, and sheâs won 5 Guild of food writers awards for her journalism. After over 20 years of food writing, this year she released her first cookbook, The Secret of Cooking, something she says sheâs dreamt of doing since the age of 8.
She has been described by Yotam Ottolenghi as "the ultimate food scholar" and writes brilliantly about all aspects of our current food culture.She counts Nigella and Diana Henry as friends (and fans) and I so enjoyed getting to chat to her and hear her Desert Island Dishes.
I hope you enjoy this one and thank you so much for listening.
A huge thank you to our sponsor HG Walter for bringing the podcast to you this month - visit them at www.hgwalter.com
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This week we have Zena Kamgaing on The Dream Dinner Party. I love bringing you Desert Island dishes but I also selfishly do love the dream dinner party â itâs a just a little bit of fun, I love how everyone of the guests have really embraced the theme and taken it seriously â in a very unserious way. Zena was no exception â I love the sound of her dream dinner party â there is a part in this where she gets me to play one of the games she likes to play but we cut out the actual game part as I would have given away the answers and potentially ruined your fun.
Hope you enjoy listening to the dream dinner party as much as I enjoy bringing it to you and I always want to hear from you the listener about who you would be inviting and what you would be serving!
Thank you to our sponsor for this month â the brilliant family run butcher HG Walter. www.hgwalter.com
So there we have it Gennaroâs dream dinner party is over, the food has been eaten and the guests have gone home. I do hope you enjoyed todays episode and make sure youâre subscribed to catch all episodes of The Dream Dinner Party and Desert lsland Dishes. Thank you so much for listening!
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My guest this week is the world famous photographer David Loftus. David is one of the most influential photographers of all time often fondly referred to as Lord Loftus. Award-winning and internationally acclaimed, David has done the photography for the books of Jamie Oliver, Rachel Khoo, Gennaro Contaldo, Elizabeth David and April Bloomfield. For over 20 years, David has photographed over 150 books including all but one of Jamie Oliverâs international best-sellers. His work with Jamie Oliver alone has resulted in book sales of over 30 million copies. You will have looked a Davidâs photographs even if you were unaware of it at the time.
Thank you so much to HG Walter for sponsoring this month of Desert Island Dishes. Head to www.hgwalter.com for nationwide delivery.
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Hi Iâm Margie Nomura and welcome to another episode of our side side dish: The Dream Dinner Party. This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us all about their dream dinner party. And this week we have the one and only Rick Stein â I know so many of you loved his episode of Desert Island Dishes so Iâm thrilled he also joined us to share his Dream Dinner Party. I think Rick would be a popular choice on lots of people Dream Dinner Party guest list so it was so interesting to hear who he would pick. Love that Ricks dinner parties all include a lot of dancing and also some very good tips about the actual art of hosting in this one â ensuring you donât run out of time and that you donât want to be still cooking when people are there, which I very much agree with.
Thank you to our sponsor for this month â the brilliant family run butcher HG Walter. www.hgwalter.com
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We are back! For a short mini series but back nonetheless! I missed you! And I'm very excited that today my guest today is Claudia Roden.
Described as the food writer who never goes out of fashion. She began collecting recipes in 1956, while a student in London. The Suez crisis of that year turned many people from Egypt into refugees: preserving the food culture of the Jewish community was as much practical as it was emotional.
These recipes led to her debut masterpiece A Book of Middle Eastern Food which really cemented Claudiaâs future as one of the greatest food writers weâve ever known. Her book revolutionised Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East.
Her books have been loved by not only home cooks but also have laid the foundation for many of the most ambitious professional kitchens, and heavily influenced some of the most well known chefs working today, from the River CafĂ©, to Ottolenghi, Alistair Little and Moro to name just a few. Claudiaâs talent for mixing up the scholarly with the practical is what really has set her apart. Often described as an anthropologist as well as a historian, essayist and poet - her books are as much about culture an anthropology as they are about recipes. But she says she doesnât follow scholarly rules, and didnât go to university, she is a food writer through and through who simply finds a dish and wants to learn all about it.
What is clear is that she is the Master of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavours and a hero for the industry and people who love food.
Thank you so much to our sponsor HG Walter for helping us to bring the show to you. Find them here: https://www.hgwalter.com
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My guest today is Rick Stein. A highly requested guest, I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did recording it. Rick is, of course, a chef, restaurateur, cook book author and television presenter. He has written over 25 cookery books, a memoir and made over 30 television programmes. His latest cookbook, Simple Suppers is out now. It has been nearly 50 years since he first opened The Fish Restaurant in Padstow, an area of Cornwall he fell in love with at a young age and has made his home.
Despite his successes, Rick describes himself as an accidental restaurateur â who never planned on a career in food. And yet how lucky we are that his dreams of running a nightclub were quashed by the local authorities and led instead to the Stein restaurant empire we know today.
He is the man who could pretty much entirely be credited with bringing an appreciation of fish to the UK masses, something he says he didnât set out to do intentionally, it just made sense at the time. Despite his obvious success, Rick has said, âIâve definitely got a sense of not being very good at stuff. Itâs sort of absurd because, you know, Iâve done really quite well for myself, but I still really doubt myself. Itâs just the way I am.â
Simple Suppers is out now, available at all good bookstores.
And don't forget if you want to enter our Fortnum and Mason giveaway with the chance to win one of their Magic of Christmas Hampers worth ÂŁ300 sign up for the newsletter via the website www.desertislanddishes.co and I will be sending out more information.
Thank you to Georgie my producer for all her hard work and thank you for listening!
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This week we have Donna Hay on the mini episode The Dream Dinner Party. Donna is the much loved and respected queen of cooking in Australia â sheâs got a new cookbook out Even More Basics to Brilliance â which is the follow up to her first of this series. I was honoured to host Donna's supperclub at Fortnum and Mason a few weeks ago where we talked about the new book and then were served the most delicious food all from the book. Donna is extremely fun and she did not disappoint with her Dream Dinner Party which i think I describe as amazing many times in this but I just couldnât get over how â well amazing (!) sounded.
I do hope you enjoyed todayâs episode and make sure youâre subscribed to catch all episodes of The Dream Dinner Party and Desert Island Dishes. Thank you so much for listening bye!
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