Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
Episodes
Helen Graves: Live Fire
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with early food blogger and publisher of Pit Magazine, Helen Graves whose book Live Fire is about so much more than a summer BBQ.&...
Gill Meller: Outside
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is celebrating the poetry and timelessness of the great outdoors with award winning author and chef, Gill Meller. Outside is Gil...
Dominique Woolf: Dominique's Kitchen
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with the winner of Channel 4’s Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver, Dominique Woolf. She’s a publisher’s dream – a ...
British Library Food Season Special: Sam and Sam Clark with Nawal Nasrallah and Bink Hallum
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in a special extended episode, Gilly is on stage at the British Library in London whose Food Season has been tantalising food fans wit...
Joe Woodhouse: Your Daily Veg
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Joe Woodhouse to talk about cookery courses, food photography and launching your very first book in the middle of a war when ...
Melissa Hemsley: Feel Good
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with the woman who made Cooking the Books happen in the first place! When Melissa Hemsley said yes to her invitation to be on a br...
Ella Risbridger: The Year of Miracles
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly's talking about The Year of Miracles by Ella Risbridger. Like her first book, Midnight Chicken and other recipes worth liv...
Sheila Dillon and Alex Renton: The Food Programme: 13 Foods That Shape Our World
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, is all about The Food Programme, the Radio 4’s mighty series which has been examining our food, its culture and its politics for 43 years...
The Fortnum and Mason Awards Shortlist with Mark Diacono, Tara Wigley and Georgina Hayden
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly meets the judges of this year's Fortnum and Mason Awards (who shortlisted Cooking the Books for Best Podcast!) to discuss the food bo...
Kitty and Al Tait: Breadsong
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly is with Al and Kitty Tait, the dad and daughter team behind The Orange Bakery.Kitty was just 14 years old when crippling depression di...
Nicole Pisani and Joanna Weinberg: Feed your Family
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a subject very close to Gilly's heart and the work she does on the Food Foundation’s award-winning podcast, Right2Food – how to change ...
Georgina Hayden: Nistisima
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week as it's Lent, we’re off to fast in Cyprus with Georgina Hayden, and to find a host of vegan gems in the traditional fasting food from reli...
Eleanor Ford: The Nutmeg Trail
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly is with multi-award winning food writer and explorer, Eleanor Ford whose latest book The Nutmeg Trail takes us on an adventure to exot...
Eat, Share, Love: Kalpna Woolf
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Kalpna Woolf, founder of the Bristol charity 91 Ways which brings together the 91 languages spoken in her hometown of Br...
Taste Tibet: Julie Kleeman and Yeshi Jampa
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly takes us to Tibet with Yeshi Jampa and Julie Kleeman, the husband and wife team who brought the Himalayas to Oxford through their leg...
Yemisi Aribisala: Longthroat Memoirs
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After spending the last couple of months hearing the voice of Yemisi Aribisala introduce the best food books of 2021 in a special series with the Andr...
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Yasmin Khan
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the last of the Andre Simon Shortlist Special series, we meet Yasmin Khan whose book Ripe Figs transports us across the East Mediterrane...
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Sambal Shiok
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 5th episode of this special series celebrating the Andre Simon Awards 2021, Gilly discusses Mandy Yin’s shortlisted book Sambal Shiok with Si...
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Mark Diacono
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 4th episode of the Cooking the Books Andre Simon Shortlist Special, we meet Mark Diacono, gardener, author and cook. He's no stranger to the An...
Andre Simon Shortlist Special: Dee Rettali
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The third in this special series celebrating the Andre Simon Awards 2021 in which Gilly meets the authors shortlisted for the prestigious food book go...
Andre Simon Awards Shortlist: Rachel Roddy
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The second in a special series in conjunction with the Andre Simon Awards 2021 .Each week, we'll start with an appraisal of each shortlisted author by...
The Andre Simon Awards Shortlist: Dan Saladino
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a special series celebrating the Andre Simon Awards 2021, Gilly celebrates the authors shortlisted for the prestigious food book prize.Each week un...
Leah Hyslop: The Brownie Diaries
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with the deputy editor of Waitrose Food Magazine, Leah Hyslop whose latest book The Brownie Diaries is oozing with the kind of sto...
Ruth Nieman: Freekeh - Wild Wheat and Ancient Grains
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly's talking about something probably quite new to foodies, Biblical Cuisine with Ruth Nieman who has become the go-to expert on Israel’...
Saira Hamilton: My Bangladesh Kitchen
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with 2013 MasterChef finalist, Saira Hamilton whose latest book takes us deep into the little-known food culture of Bangladesh. My...
Shaun and Craig McAnuff: Natural Flava
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with the Flava brothers, Craig and Shaun McAnuff whose Caribbean recipes, inspired by their Jamaican grandmother, are all abo...
Julia Georgallis: How to Eat Your Christmas Tree
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Julia Georgallis, supper club host, industrial designer and author of How to Eat your Christmas Tree who tells us how to have...
Selin Kiazim: Three
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith is with Selin Kiazim, Turkish-Cyrpiot chef at Oklava in Shoreditch. A few episodes back, Clare Finney, author of The Female Che...
Rowan Jacobsen: The Truffle Hound
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with James Beard award-winning author, Rowan Jacobsen whose book The Truffle Hound is a fabulous romp across the world in search o...
Alissa Timoshkina. Salt and Time
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Alissa Timoshkina whose book Salt and Time, a Waitrose one-to-watch for 2021, takes us into the Russian kitchen of her childh...
Sharon Wee: Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with New York food writer, Sharon Wee whose book Growing up in a Nonya Kitchen tells the story of Peranakan cuisine, a largely unk...
Luca Iaccarino: Appetiti
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Luca Iaccarino, Italian food critic and journalist for Italy’s most respected newspapers la Republica and Corriere della Se...
Clare Finney: The Female Chef
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Clare Finney, author of The Female Chef. The book - and the chat - is a wonderfully multi-layered exploration of what it mean...
Bettina Campolucci Bordi: Celebrate
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with vegan queen, retreat chef and recipe consultant, Bettina Campolucci Bordi whose new book Celebrate is about flavour...
Dan Saladino: Eating to Extinction
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Dan Saladino, co-presenter of Radio 4 and BBC Sounds’ The Food Programme whose whopping 400 page debut, Eating to Extinctio...
Saliha Mahmood Ahmed:Foodology
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, Masterchef 2017 winner and author of Khazana, a history of the Mughal empire whose day job as gastroent...
Dee Rettali: Baking with Fortitude
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks the politics and culture of cake and bread with craft baker at Fortitude Bakehouse, Dee Rettali who was one of the first people...
Claudia Roden: Med
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with surely everyone’s food hero, Claudia Roden who brought Jewish and Middle Eastern food to the world. Yotam Ottolenghi and Sa...
Tim Hayward: Loaf Story
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly is at the Abergavenny Food Festival with Financial Times restaurant critic and Kitchen Cabinet panellist, Tim Hayward. His latest book...
James Rebanks: English Pastoral
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly is with one of the most important voices in food right now, sheep farmer and award winning author, James Rebanks. His books...
Gennaro Contaldo: Limoni
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're staying in the Mediterranean as Gilly sniffs the lemons of the Amalfi coast with everyone’s favourite Italian, Gennaro Contaldo.Sin...
Dr Simon Poole: The Real Mediterranean diet
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with GP, Dr Simon Poole whose latest book The Real Mediterranean Diet shares the latest science behind the world’s oldest a...
Kylee Newton: The Modern Preserver
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Kylee Newton whose fermenting and pickling masterclasses were featured in the Guardian and The Times. Fo...
Nik Sharma: The Flavour Equation
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith talks to scientist, Guardian food writer and finalist for a James Beard food photography award, Nik Sharma. He argues that his ...
Orlando Murrin: Two's Company
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks to Orlando Murrin, former editor of BBC Good Food magazine, founder of Olive magazine, Waitrose columnist and president of...
Gilly Smith: Taste and the TV Chef
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re on a bit of a summer special when Gilly is in the hot seat for a change. Food writer Bee Farrell chats about her book, Taste and th...
Sophie Grigson: A Curious Absence of Chickens
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is off to Puglia to catch up with adventuress-in-chief and legendary food writer, Sophie Grigson two years after she upped sticks and...
Zuza Zak: Amber and Rye
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re off to the Baltic with Polish food writer, Zuza Zak whose latest book Amber and Rye takes us to Estonia, Lativia and Lithuania, an ...
Emily Scott: Sea and Shore
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is Zooming down to Cornwall to meet the woman of the moment,Emily Scott, one of only two British chefs chosen to feed the leaders of...
Towpath
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly heads down the Regent’s Canal to Hackney’s favourite café, The Towpath with owners and authors of the book of the cafe Lori de M...
Rachel Roddy: The A-Z of Pasta
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith Zooms to Rome to talk about the the jigsaw puzzle of pasta shapes that make Italy what it is for Guardian food columnist and mu...
Uyen Luu: Vietnamese
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith is off to Vietnam through the memories and food of film maker, supper club host and food writer, Uyen Luu to talk about her new...
Honey and co: Chasing Smoke
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith is with Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovitch from Honey and co. as they chase smoke and cook over open fire around the levant. Ho...
Ben Tish: Sicilia
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith is off to Sicily with Norma chef, Ben Tish via the four food moments in his latest book Sicilia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Bill Buford: Dirt; Adventures in French Cooking
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is zooming into Manhattan with Bill Buford, the former fiction editor of The New Yorker and author of Dirt to hear how he uprooted h...
Raymond Blanc: Simply Raymond and The Lost Orchard
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Raymond Blanc OBE, and it's been a big year for him. His beloved mother, known affectionately as Maman Blanc died while suffe...
Kim Duke: Weekly Provisions
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Kim Duke, co-founder of Life Kitchen, the cookery classes and book for people living with Cancer which are all about working ...
Anna Jones: One Pot, Pan, Planet
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Anna Jones, vegetarian queen of simple, creative, delicious sustainability in the kitchen on the four food moments from her l...
Anas Atassi: Sumac
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is in the Syria of Anas Atassi's childhood which inspired his book Sumac. He and his family left the country before the war began in ...
Rob Howell: Root
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks with Rob Howell whose book Root tells the story of one of the new stars of the Bristol sustainable food scene. Root the plant-f...
Laurie Woolever on Anthony Bourdain
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith remembers the late great Anthony Bourdain, surely the most exciting storytelling in food who shocked the world by taking his ow...
Grace Regan: Spicebox
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with the star of the future of the British curry house, vegan cook and serial entrepreneur Grace Regan, a Young British Foodi...
Naved Nasir: Dishoom
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is walking through the back streets of old Bombay with Naved Nasir, executive chef at Dishoom to find the Irani Cafes which inspired ...
Ollie Hunter: Join the Greener Revolution
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Ollie Hunter, activist chef and hyper local champion whose restaurant The Wheatsheaf near Hungerford won the Sustainable Res...
Emiko Davies: Torta della Nonna
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly's in Florence with Australian-Japanese food writer, Emiko Davies who has made Tuscany her home. In her latest book, Torte della Nonna...
Durkhanai Ayubi: Parwana
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Durkhanai Ayubi whose book Parwana tells the story of her family’s memories and recipes from her native Afghanistan set aga...
Katie Caldesi: The 30 Minute Diabetes Cookbook
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with food writer, Katie Caldesi who wrote The 30 Minute Diabetes Cookbook with her husband, the Italian chef Giancarlo Caldesi aft...
Theo Randall: The Italian Deli Cookbook
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we hop into the back seat of chef Theo Randall’s parent’s car and head through 1970s Italy, stopping at markets and stalls, d...
Brad Carter: Staff
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is virtually in Birmingham with chef Brad Carter whose book Staff tells the story of his journey through DJing and all-night raves to...
JP McMahon: Food on the Edge and Lessons from Lockdown
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with JP McMahon, chef patron at Michelin-starred Aniar and the brains behind Galway’s food symposium, Food on the Edge. His acti...
Dan Barber: The Third Plate
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, chef Dan Barber's restaurant deep in the countryside of New York. In his 2014 book, The Third P...
Pen Vogler: Scoff
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly Smith talks British food and class with food historian, Pen Vogler in a romp through etiquette and faux pas, dysfunction and obsession...
The Seafood Shack: Kirsty Scobie and Fenella Renwick
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith talks to Kirsty Scobie and Fenella Renwick about winning the Jane Grigson Trust award for new food writers with their debut coo...
Sam Rice: The Midlife Method
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks to Sam Rice, co-author with Mimi Spencer of The Midlife Kitchen whose new book The Midlife Method offers a more holistic appro...
Sam Gates: The Batch Cook
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is with Sam Gates’ whose Batch Cook Book went straight to number one on Amazon when it came out at the end of last year. It's a sur...
Razzak Mirjan and Tom Cenci: From Beder's Kitchen
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, as we head towards Blue Monday, the day when the credit card bills hit the door mat and midwinter can feel very bleak indeed, Gilly meets&n...
Pinch of Nom: Quick and Easy
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks to Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone, two former restaurant owners from the Wirral who have made simple, healthy food accessib...
Carolyn Steel: Sitopia
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks with the visionary writer, architect and philosopher, Carolyn Steel whose book Sitopia was one of 2020’s most important reads...
Trine Hahnemann: Scandinavian Green
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This Christmas week, Gilly talks with Danish food writer and activist chef, Trine Hahnemann about a gloriously plant-based, uncommercial hygge Christm...
The Rangoon Sisters: Authentic Burmese Home Cooking
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks to doctors, food writers and supper club hosts Emily and Amy Chung, aka The Rangoon Sisters about the four food moments from th...
Lara Lee: Coconut and Sambal
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is off to Indonesia with Australian caterer and food writer, Lara Lee to explore food and identity in her debut cook book, Coconut an...
Christine Smallwood: The World Vegetarian - Italy
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Italian food expert, Christine Smallwood takes Gilly Smith through the markets and osterias of Puglia to the cool new restaurants of Milan ...
The Pie Room: Calum Franklin
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith chats to Pie Man, Calum Franklin about the four food moments in his new book The Pie Room. We learn how he pulled out pies from...
Tom Kerridge: The Hand and Flowers Cookbook
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith talks to Tom Kerridge about the four food moments from his brand new book, The Hand and Flowers Cookbook. Expect insider tips ...
Mimi Aye: Mandalay
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is transported to Burma and the deeply exotic hills of the land of rubies through the childhood memories and family stories ...
Theo Michaels: Rustica
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith is back in the Mediterranean – virtually of course - with Theo Michaels whose latest book Rustica explores the recipes of his...
James Strawbridge: The Artisan Kitchen
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly escapes to the Cornish countryside (virtually, of course) with TV presenter and eco chef, James Strawbridge whose BBC series It’s N...
Rukmini Iyer: The Roasting Tin Around the World
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly is with the food writer who has sold more food books than anyone else in the UK after the Pinch of Noms, Jamie Oliver, Mary Berry and ...
Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage: Flavour
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the king of vegetables, Yotam Ottolenghi and his test kitchen princess, Ixta Belfrage teach us some of the secrets of the alchemy behind th...
Isabel Losada: The Joyful Environmentalist
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Author Isabel Losada talks through the four food moments in her latest book The Joyful Environmentalist, a romp through how low we can go with our car...
Tom Hunt: Eating for Pleasure, People and Planet
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eco chef Tom Hunt’s root to fruit philosophy has made him the king of sustainability in the food world. His restaurant, Poco Tapas in Bristol ...
Felicity Cloake: One More Croissant for the Road
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in the last of our summer holiday listens, Gilly Smith saddles up for Felicity Cloake's four food moments in her book One More Croissant fo...
Irini Tzortzoglou: Under the Olive Tree
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith is, virtually, in Crete with MasterChef 2019 winner, Irini Tzortzoglou whose four food moments take us through her debut cook b...
Skye McAlpine: A Table for Friends
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re off to Venice with food writer and columnist and Venetian local, Skye McAlpine to hear her four food moments from her latest book A ...
The Official Giffords Circus Cookbook: Ols Halas
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly runs away with the circus as Ols Halas, chef at Gifford's Circus restaurant Sauce and co-author with Nell Gifford of its official coo...
Ana Ros: Sun and Rain
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith takes us - by the magic of remote recording - on a summer holiday to Slovenia, to the magical land of turquoise rivers and Dalm...
Gill Meller: Root,Stem, Leaf, Flower
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks to food writer and River Cottage chef Gill Meller about the four food moments from his new book Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower that p...
William Sitwell: The Restaurant
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week William Sitwell, restaurant critic at the Telegraph, host of the podcast Biting Talk and author of The Restaurant takes us through the histo...
Ravinder Bhogal: Jikoni
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning food writer, journalist and chef Ravinder Bhogal gives us her four favourite food moments from her new book Jikoni: proudly inauthentic ...
Olia Hercules: Summer Kitchens
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Olia Hercules, author of the award-winning Mamushka and Kaukasis takes us through four food moments from her latest book Summer Kitchens and paints an...