S14 Ep25: Fred Siriex on the dishes that have shaped him, moving to England and how his parents taught him about loyalty
Fred has become known as the nation’s favourite maitre d’ and TV personality. He initially wanted to be a chef, but having decided that the repetitive nature of professional cooking would stifle his creativity, he switched his attention to the front of house and has never looked back. Fred worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in both France and the UK, and rose to fame back in 2013 on Channe...
50m Sep 14, 2023
50m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Tom Kerridge (mini episode)
Hi I’m 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 their dream dinner party. A returning guest today in the very lovely form of Tom Kerridge. I really truly appreciate so much how much thought the guests are putting into their answers and Tom was no exception. I think a lot of people wou...
25m Sep 12, 2023
25m
S14 Ep24: Diana Henry one of the most prolific and well loved recipe writers of a generation on the dishes that have shaped her life
I'm so excited that today Diana Henry is sharing her Desert Island Dishes with me. Diana is one of my favourite recipe writers and it was a total joy to sit down with her. Diana is a multi award-winning food writer, journalist, broadcaster and cook book author. Described as one of the most prolific recipe writers of a generation but also one of the most beloved. She is the Telegraph’s much-lov...
51m Sep 07, 2023
51m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with BOSH! founders Henry and Ian (mini episode)
This week we have the boys from Bosh! Henry and Ian telling us all about their dream dinner party. They take two slightly different approaches – just because you’re best friends doesn’t mean you will have the same dream dinner party so that was quite interesting to hear their different apporoaches. Would love to know who you would choose to invite to your dream dinner party. I think it's impos...
14m Sep 05, 2023
14m
S14 Ep23: Poppy O'Toole on her ultimate sandwich, internet stardom and the highs and lows of working in restaurants
If you were on your phone through lockdown, there is no doubt at all in my mind that you will have seen today’s guest across your screens teaching us how to make potatoes all kinds of delicious ways. Poppy O’Toole, also known as Poppy Cooks, is a Michelin-trained professional chef, who turned to tiktok upon losing her job in 2020 to fill some time. 3 years later, Poppy has amassed over 4 milli...
56m Aug 31, 2023
56m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Millie Mackintosh (mini episode)
Millie Mackintosh joins us for The Dream Dinner Party this week. I know so many of you enjoyed her episode of Desert Island Dishes so we persuaded her to share her Dream Dinner Party with us too! This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us their dream dinner party. The only rule is that they are only allowed to invite 4 guests – but they can be anyone they like dead or alive. ...
15m Aug 29, 2023
15m
S14 Ep22: Will Shu the founder of Deliveroo on his love of food, his mum's dumplings, the best dish he's ever eaten and why he still personally delivers food on his bike to customers
Will is the founder of Deliveroo – the food delivery company he launched in 2013 with his childhood friend Greg Orlowski. After coming up with the idea for whilst working 100 hour weeks as an investment banker – the two friends seized on the opportunity to pair newly emerging technology with restaurants in order to enable people to order restaurant food straight to their door. A simple but geni...
37m Aug 24, 2023
37m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Sophia Money-Coutts (mini episode)
Sophia Money-Coutts joins us today to talk all about her Dream Dinner Party. Sophia is a British journalist and author. She writes regularly for The Telegraph, has written 5 novels and has been described as the new "queen of rom coms". Her latest book Looking for Love is out now. Sophia did her own brilliant podcast a few years ago on freezing her eggs, it's honestly fantastic and I really rec...
26m Aug 22, 2023
26m
S14 Ep21: BOSH! founders Henry Firth and Ian Theasby talk all things plant based, working with your best friend and the best dish they've ever eaten
My guests todays are Henry Firth and Ian Theasby Broadcasters, Sunday Times best sellers and vegan chefs extraordinaire, you may know them by their other name BOSH! The vegan food empire they’ve been growing for the last 7 years. From what began as a successful Youtube channel, these boys from Sheffield have now gone on to host their own ITV show, Living on the Veg and now have more than a mil...
51m Aug 17, 2023
51m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with David Gandy (mini episode)
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 their dream dinner party. The only rule is that they are only allowed to invite 4 guests – but they can be anyone they like dead or alive – and it’s 4 guests because really I think personally 5 people is the optimum number for a great dinner party. And they are a...
16m Aug 15, 2023
16m
S14 Ep20: Millie Mackintosh on her love of food, her time on Celebrity Masterchef and the best dish she's ever eaten
My guest today is Millie Mackintosh Millie first made her name as part of the original line up of made in chelsea in 2011. After 5 seasons she descided to embark on a career spanning from beauty to fashion, to lifestyle and fitness. She’s been in the public eye for over a decade – she’s a business woman, and health and wellness advocate – having been on the cover of Womens Health a whopping 4 ...
45m Aug 10, 2023
45m
Listen to The One Recipe where Claire Saffitz shares her recipe for Choose-Your-Own-Ending Custards
I'm excited to share a podcast recommendation with you this week. It's a podcast from America called The One Recipe. From the team that brought you The Splendid Table at APM Studios, The One Recipe is a podcast devoted to that one recipe you keep in your back pocket. The one you send to friends, make for your mom, the one you entirely depend on because you know it’s going to work. Host Jesse S...
16m Aug 08, 2023
16m
S14 Ep19: Jimi Famurewa on the dish he ate on the day his life changed forever and how he got his dream job as restaurant critic for the Evening Standard
Jimi is a writer, broadcaster and food critic. He is the chief restaurant critic for the Evening Standard, a regular guest judge on the BBC One series MasterChef and was also one of the judges on Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver. In 2021, he won Restaurant Writer of the Year at both the Fortnum & Mason Awards and the Guild of Food Writers Awards and as an interviewe...
43m Aug 03, 2023
43m
S14 Ep18: Ravinder Bhogal talks to us about moving to the UK as a child, her love of libraries and fulfilling her destiny with her restaurant Jikoni
My guest today is Ravinder Bhogal Kenyan born, raised in the UK by Indian parents, Ravinder Bhogal is one of the UK’s most successful food writers, restaurateurs and chefs. Calling her food and menus “proudly inauthentic”, Ravinder’s work and food spans flavours and culinary traditions from the Asia, The Middle East, East Africa and Britain – celebrating the idea of immigrant cuisine. She ope...
55m Jul 27, 2023
55m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Sophie Wyburd (mini episode)
This week cook and food writer Sophie Wyburd tells us all about her Dream Dinner Party. This one has it all! Popstars, cooks and wizards! Sophie has the most infectious laugh and her passion for food and for feeding people really comes through. If you heard Sophie’s episode of Desert Island dishes then hopefully you will enjoy a little encore from sophie and if you haven’t listened to her full...
17m Jul 25, 2023
17m
S14 Ep17: Claire Thompson, the 5 o'clock apron on the dishes that have shaped her life and taught her who she is
My guest today is Claire Thompson otherwise known as the 5 o’clock apron. Claire is a chef, food writer and the author of 8 cookery books. Her writing is focused around the idea of creating proper food for modern families. And she aims for her food to Inspire but it’s also down to earth enough not to be intimidating She was born and raised in Zimbabwe and Botswana and over many generations he...
48m Jul 20, 2023
48m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Nina Parker (mini episode)
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 their dream dinner party. They are allowed to invite 4 guests – 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. My guest this week is Nina Park...
19m Jul 18, 2023
19m
S14 Ep16: Amelia Christie-Miller the founder of the Bold Bean Co on turning her passion into a business
Amelia is the founder of the Bold Bean Co. She’s on a mission to make us all obsessed with beans by bringing us the best of beans. She launched the business officially in 2021 following what she describes as a bean epiphany in Spain when she decided that the UK both needed and deserved better beans. Amelia is also passionate about sustainability and sees beans as the future of food. Now liste...
42m Jul 13, 2023
42m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with John Torode
This week John Torode talks us through his Dream Dinner Party and we are off to Singapore to board the Orient Express! All aboard! John is one of the food world’s most recognisable faces. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, starting his career in the world of food at the age of 16. He credits his love of food and passion for cooking to his grandmother, who raised him from the age of 4. After ...
17m Jul 11, 2023
17m
S14 Ep15: David Gandy on life as a supermodel turned founder and entrepreneur, his love of cooking and the best dish he's ever eaten
My guest today is David Gandy. After winning a televised modelling competition at the age of 21 he went on to become the world’s first and most successful male supermodel. David’s big break came in 2007 in the form of his first Dolce & Gabbana campaigns, which saw him become a global sensation overnight when the iconic image of him wearing tiny white trunks in a boat in Capri shot by Mario Tes...
53m Jul 06, 2023
53m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Julius Roberts
Julius Roberts is a cook, farmer and gardener and he's talking us through his Dream Dinner Party today. I think it's impossible to listen to this and not think about your own answers. So if you were to host your own Dream Dinner Party with 4 people who were dead or alive, who would you pick? Julius picks some amazing guests and his menu sounds absolutely delicious too set against the backdrop...
18m Jul 04, 2023
18m
S14 Ep14: Emma Willis on her life as a model and presenter, on getting the famous handshake on Bake Off and why she sees her life divided into three sandwiches
You may know Emma from her work as a model and TV presenter - she is afterall one of the most experienced and versatile broadcasters in the UK. Across her incredible career, Emma has presented juggernaut shows such as Big Brother for six series, The Circle , and Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. Alongside her radio and reality television credentials, Emma was not only a a contestant on ...
46m Jun 29, 2023
46m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Gennaro Contaldo (mini episode)
We have a returning guest for you this week on our side dish in the form of the Gennaro Contaldo. Gennaro is one of the UK’s most loved chefs - widely known as the man who taught Jamie Oliver everything he knows about cooking and he's going to be sharing his Dream Dinner Party with us. Referred to as everyone’s favourite nonno – he’s written more than a dozen best selling Italian cookbooks incl...
21m Jun 27, 2023
21m
S14 Ep13: Sophie Wyburd the cook and recipe developer on landing her dream job, her life after Mob and her love of pies
Sophie is a cook and recipe developer. Her passion for food shines through and we love to hear that on Desert Island Dishes. We talk all thing sandwiches, whether it's worth going to cookery school, life in a restaurant and why pies are the greatest. After deciding to embark on a career in food while in her final year at university, she then trained at the world-famous Leith’s before working a...
46m Jun 22, 2023
46m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Rosie Mackean (mini episode)
When it comes to dinner parties – no one is better equipped to talk to us than Rosie Mackean. Very excited to have Rosie on The Dream Dinner Party. Rosie is a chef, food stylist and pasta and dinner party queen. She is doing a dinner party pop up on the 7th July in London which I wish I could go to as I know it will be delicious and tickets are available so if you're around definitely check tha...
20m Jun 20, 2023
20m
S14 Ep12: John Torode on salad sandwiches, reflecting on 20 years of Masterchef and why sausage rolls will be in his epitaph
John is one of the food world’s most recognisable faces. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, starting his career in the world of food at the age of 16. He credits his love of food and passion for cooking to his grandmother, who raised him from the age of 4. After apprenticeships at some of Melbourne’s best restaurants, he moved to the UK in the 1990s, where he quickly made a name for himself. ...
48m Jun 15, 2023
48m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Max La Manna (mini episode)
The side dish: This week’s guest on The Dream Dinner Party is Max La Manna. Max is a champion of the low waste and sustainable lifestyle, he’s a chef , presenter and award winning author and has been described as a bona fide millennial heart throb. HIs new book You can Cook This is out now and is a great blueprint for how to use up ingredients in your kitchen that so often end up going to waste...
16m Jun 13, 2023
16m
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Esther Coren (mini episode)
Introducing our new mini episode...it's a little after dinner something to keep you going through the week. It's The Dream Dinner Party. It's short and sweet, just one simple question. Each week we will have a different guest guiding us through their Dream Dinner Party. They are allowed 4 guests, they can be dead or alive and of course we want to know why they will be invited. They're going to...
22m Jun 06, 2023
22m
S14 Ep10: Twiggy on life as the face of the swinging sixties, winning 2 golden globes and life as a self confessed foodie
Twiggy is one of those rare celebrities known by a single name. She was the girl from Neasden, north London who became the face of the swinging sixties. With her petite frame at just 5ft 6 Twiggy smashed the stereotypes of what it meant to be a supermodel. Her pixie hair cut and wide eyes will forever be iconic. As the model of her age she was propelled into the glamorous world of fashion and...
43m Jun 01, 2023
43m
S14 Ep9: Max La Manna on sustainable living, why painful sandwiches are the best and a surprising last meal
Max is a champion of the low waste and sustainable lifestyle. He’s a chef, presenter and award-winning author and has been described as a bona fide millennial heartthrob. His recipe content and food shows have been seen by over 1 billion people. He talks to Margie about why the best sandwich are painful to eat and his choice of his last supper might surprise you! What would you pick? I know it...
52m May 25, 2023
52m
S14 Ep8: Annoushka Ducas founder of Links of London and Annoushka Jewellery talks to us about how her mother's fish business was the catalyst for her hugely successful jewellery career
Annoushka's mother had a business selling fish to all the top restaurants in London and it was this business that accidentally set Annoushka onto the path to become one of the most successful jewellers in the UK. Annoushka does not believe she's a good cook but you really wouldn't know that from her delicious choices of dishes. Annoushka Ducas MBE is a jewellery designer, creative director and...
43m May 18, 2023
43m
S14 Ep7: Jessie Inchauspé, known online as The Glucose Goddess on her life changing discovery and why parmesan is everything
Jessie is a French biochemist, bestselling author, and founder of the Glucose Goddess movement. She's helped millions of people improve their health by making cutting-edge science accessible. Her whole philosophy is one that focuses on the idea of adding things to your life and not taking them away. She’s very clear that she doesn’t advocate a certain type of diet, her whole focus is on the sc...
47m May 11, 2023
47m
S14 Ep6: Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the best meal she's ever eaten and why lockdown was the making of her
Sophie Ellis-Bexter is a double platinum selling artist. She started out as the lead singer of indie band the audience at the age of 17. She shot to fame with her single with Groovejet which earned her her first number 1. Since then she’s gone on to release 6 studio and 2 compilation albums, written a memoir, went on Strictly come dancing, appeared in Game of Thrones, launched her own pod...
54m May 04, 2023
54m
S14 Ep5: Shelina Permalloo: Cookery Author and TV Chef on how Masterchef changed her life
Shelina describes herself as a cook, an author and restaurateur. She grew up in Southampton with her Mauritian parents and siblings. It was only in 2011 that she decided to follow her heart and gave up a career in diversity and equality to enter the MasterChef competition. Over 6.5 million viewers watched Shelina triumph in the MasterChef final: with her instinctive spicing and intense flavour...
49m Apr 27, 2023
49m
S14 Ep4: Dan Keeling: Co founder of Noble Rot, restaurateur and the man responsible for discovering Coldplay on
Dan is an award winning wine writer, magazine editor and restaurateur He is the Co founder of Noble Rot named for the fungus that shrivels and sweeten grapes which began life as a cult food, wine and popular culture magazine. The magazine created a space that is as informative as it is witty and serves up wine with alongside sides of life and culture. The brand has since expanded to two award ...
44m Apr 20, 2023
44m
S14 Ep3: Shivi Ramoutar on being the Queen of Caribbean Cooking and how getting made redundant was the best thing to happen to her
Shivi has been dubbed by The Guardian as the “Caribbean Food Supremo”, and it has been said she is the "Queen of Contemporary Caribbean Cooking". She is a food writer, cookbook author, TV chef and presenter. She was born in Trinidad but was brought up between there, New York, the English countryside and London. This diverse upbringing has really influenced her style of cooking. She says her cul...
52m Apr 13, 2023
52m
S14 Ep2: Jesse Jenkins: Creator of the food studio ADIP: Another Day in Paradise on growing up in LA and how life as a sponsored skateboarder led to breakout success as star of the London food scene
Jesse, known online as ADIP has taken the food world by storm with his cinematic cooking videos which have been wracking up millions of views. Despite only starting his social media last year he has already amassed several hundreds of thousands of avid fans and followers. Jesse grew up in LA combining working in a professional kitchen with life as a sponsored skateboarder. He then came to the ...
46m Apr 06, 2023
46m
S14 Ep1: Jack Savoretti the singer, songwriter on Summers in the Italian Riviera, why he's grateful success didn't happen overnight and his surprising last dish
Singer and songwriter Jack Savoretti is described in pretty much every interview I came across as both extremely talented and also very charming perhaps it is this combination that has led to Jack’s stellar career. He tells us of his idyllic childhood Summers spent in the Italian Riviera, why he's grateful that his success didn't happen overnight and reveals a surprising yet delicious final des...
54m Mar 30, 2023
54m
One from the archives: Dawn O'Porter on lockdown life, parenting and honeymoon food
Dawn O'Porter is an author, broadcaster, writer, podcaster and journalist. Having trained at drama school, Dawn become a TV presenter, rising to fame with her critically acclaimed BBC documentary Super Slim Me. Many more TV shows followed and in 2013 began a new passion for Dawn as she began writing more seriously and started a new chapter of her career. She released her first novel which got ...
52m Mar 20, 2023
52m
One from the archives: Julius Roberts on how leaving London was the best decision he made
Julius Roberts is a first generation millennial farmer and rising star of the food scene. In 2016 he gave up working at the acclaimed restaurant Noble Rot in London - and swapped the rat race for an idyllic life of pigs, goats and chickens instead. His first foray into farming was a small-holding in rural Suffolk and then last year he moved with his family to a farm in Dorset. His charm and ...
45m Mar 07, 2023
45m
One from the archives: Dolly Alderton: Author and Journalist
Hello! We are very nearly back with our new season! Currently recording the next season as we speak so in anticipation of our imminent return I thought it would be fun to release a few golden oldies from the archives for you to enjoy. This week is with the wonderful Dolly Alderton. If you've ever enjoyed an episode of Desert Island Dishes and you're glad we are returning, can I ask you to shar...
42m Feb 27, 2023
42m
One from the archives: Stanley Tucci
Hello lovely listeners! We are back! Well, nearly back! Currently recording the next season as we speak so in anticipation of our imminent return I thought it would be fun to release a few golden oldies from the archives for you to enjoy. Thank you for sticking with me during my quiet season, but promise we are back for good and really really excited for all that’s in store for Desert Island ...
45m Feb 16, 2023
45m
S13 Ep6: Sally Clarke: Founder of Clarke's
My guest today is Sally Clarke Sally has been described as the unsung hero of British food, and her cooking a masterclass in simplicity. She was just 14 when she envisaged the restaurant that she would one day open and this year Clarkes celebrates it’s 37th year. Despite the prevailing fad for Nouvelle Cuisine at the time she opened in December 1984 , she never waivered in her mission to sh...
39m Jun 09, 2022
39m
S13 Ep5: Ravneet Gill: Pastry Chef, TV Presenter and Author
My guest today is Ravneet Gill Ravneet is fast becoming one of the best known pastry chefs of her generation. After completing a psychology degree, she studied at Le Cordon Bleu before working her way up the ranks in different pastry sections at some of the best restaurants in London - most notably, St. John, Llewelyn's, and Wild by Tart. Ravneet published her first cookbook - in April 202...
50m Jun 02, 2022
50m
S13 Ep4: Daphne Oz: Chef, TV Host and New York Times Bestselling Author
 My guest today is Daphne Oz. Daphne is an Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times best selling author, chef, and entrepreneur focused on the worlds of food, beauty, wellness, fashion and media. She also happens to be the mother of four children proving that you can have a very successful career and be a present mother. Daphne is the eldest daughter of the one and only Doctor Oz...
54m May 26, 2022
54m
S13 Ep3: Ella Risbridger: Author
My guest today is Ella Risbridger Author, writer and cook , in her own words: sometimes a journalist and other things too Described by The Times as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation", Her debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), was published by Bloomsbury in January 2019 and won praise from Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater and Diana Henry. A cookbook wh...
1hr 7m May 05, 2022
1hr 7m
S13 Ep2: Giles Coren: Restaurant Critic, Food Writer and TV Presenter
My guest today is Giles Coren Giles is a food writer and TV presenter. He has been a restaurant critic and columnist for the Times newspaper for the last 17 years.  He has been Described as Britains Most Powerful Food Critic. His career has been rich and illustrious. He has written books, presented TV series, written columns and hosted radio shows. Most recently alongside chef Monica ...
58m Apr 28, 2022
58m
S13 Ep1: Pierre Koffmann: One of the Greatest Chefs of All Time
Hello! We are back with a brand new season! I missed you all! My guest today is Pierre Koffman. Often described as one of the greatest chefs of all time. A living legend. He has been a chef for over 50 years. His list of achievements are basically too long to mention. Born in the South West of France in 1948 he didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming a chef and yet he has become the “chef of che...
57m Apr 21, 2022
57m
S12 Ep11: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: Chef, Writer and Broadcaster
Hello! We are back with another BONUS episode for you! My guest today is Surprise! We are back with another BONUS episode for you! My guest today is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Hugh is a chef, broadcaster, food writer and campaigner. The nation first got to know Hugh in 1997 with his TV show “A Cook on the Wild Side” in which he ate roadkill and all that the countryside’s hedgerows had to ...
1hr 1m Dec 16, 2021
1hr 1m
S12 Ep10: Tom Gozney: Designer, Entrepreneur and Founder of Gozney Wood Fired Ovens
Surprise! We are back with another BONUS episode for you! My guest today is Tom Gozney. Tom is an entrepreneur and designer, he is the founder of Gozney. Gozney for those who don’t know, make incredible outdoor ovens and the business really is taking the world by storm. Tom started out designing a brick pizza oven for his back garden in 2008, and by 2014 was supplying professional ovens to s...
58m Nov 26, 2021
58m