Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
Episodes
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...
Priya Basil: Be My Guest
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith talks food philosophy with novelist and essayist, Priya Basil whose book, Be My Guest was shortlisted for this year’s Fortnum...
Jeff Gordinier: Hungry
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly is (virtually) in Manhattan in the home of Jeff Gordinier, former New York Times journalist and author of Hungry, to retrace the foot...
Joanne Harris: The Strawberry Thief
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly Smith talks to author Joanne Harris twenty years after she first fell in love with Vianne, Anouk and Roux in Chocolat and then couldn...
Jo Thomas: Escape to the French Farmhouse
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Gilly talks to award-winning author Jo Thomas whose Escape to the French Farmhouse is the perfect Lockdown read to transport you to Provenc...
Sara Paretsky: Dead Land
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Guest presenter, Elizabeth Perry, aka E.C Reads on Instagram talks to Sara Paretsky about the food moments in Dead Land, the latest in the series to f...
Benjamin Myers: The Offing
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gilly Smith chats (remotely) with award-winining author, Benjamin Myers whose success with his previous novels, particularly The Gallows Pol...
Kate Young: The Little Library Cookbook
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Australian food writer, cook and bookworm Kate Young talks to Gilly Smith about the four food moments in the most important books of her life. From Th...
Henrietta Lovell: Infused
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Henrietta Lovell takes us through the four food moments that add extra flavour to her book Infused, a story of rare tea, adventure, resilience, courag...
Ingrid Persaud: Love after Love
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Short story queen Ingrid Persaud takes us through the four food moments in her debut novel, Love After Love, the much anticipated Faber super-lead&nbs...
Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley: Falastin
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gilly Smith has lunch with Ottolenghi's Executive Chef Sami Tamimi and his co-author of Falastin, Tara Wigley to find the four food moments that tell ...
Miranda Gore Brown: Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Series 1 finalist of The Great British Bake Off, Miranda Gore-Brown chooses four recipes to talk through her adventures in baking. A bittersweet story...
Ryan Riley: Life Kitchen
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Food entrepreneur and author of Life Kitchen Ryan Riley talks through the four food moments which brought taste, flavour and the joy of eating back to...
Romy Gill: Zaika
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chef, author and new presenter of BBC's Ready Steady Cook, Romy Gill chooses four food moments that take her back to the childhood in West Bengal whic...
Melissa Hemsley: Eat Green
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Green queen Melissa Hemsley gives us the four food moments from Eat Green that net zeroed her life, and shows us how clearing out the back of the frid...
Kiran Millwood Hargrave: The Mercies
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Award winning children’s writer Kiran Millwood Hargrave tells us about the food that puts the flesh on the bones of the women in her first adult nov...
Olivia Potts: A Half Baked Idea
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Olivia Potts talks through the food of grief in her tender, funny and moreish memoir, A Half-Baked Idea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...