Gilly Smith

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1,281 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith · Chetna Makan: 5 Ingredient Indian · 28 May 2026 podcast

For for the book with lots of other food writers, many of whom are Indian or Asian food writers, and you served up a lot of these dishes. matched

Now what did they say about the shortcuts? matched

had a lovely chat with Rani Saidi the other day, the Malay cultural. matched

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And he was talking about the uh a a lot of the techniques that came from India. matched

Um and that included the cooking of the wet paste um and the dry spices and that the and the layering that comes from that process. matched

Now this y five ingredients with the masalis means that you don't do that. matched

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Let's talk a little bit about your YouTube. matched

We've just been chatting to it before before lunch. matched

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Food with Chatna, it's huge. matched

Tell me why you wanted to do the YouTube in the first place and your relationship with it compared to your relationship with the books. matched

Because you know, as you know I I work with a lot of writers, food writers, people are very interested in the process and what this portfolio of work. matched

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l lots of different income streams as well and f we've just been talking about how on earth food writers make any money and you have to use each one of those platforms as its own workhorse. matched

You've been doing it long enough now to kind of look down from above, as it were, and sort of say, okay matched

How does this work? matched

Wha how what would you tell people just starting off? matched

Very tricky. matched

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