Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith Podcast
1) Mandy Yin: Simply Malaysian
This week, we’re with yet another lawyer turned chef, Malaysian restaurateur and award-winning author of Sambal Shiok and now Simply Malaysian, Mandy Yin.She’s the super-driven restaurateur who starte...Show More
2) Ghillie Basan: Food Whisky Life
This week, we’re off to the Cairngorms of Scotland with anthropologist, food journalist and woman of the wilds, Ghillie Basan.After bringing the food of Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon, The Middle East, Mala...Show More
3) Felicity Spector: Bread and War
This week, we're with Channel 4 news writer, social media food influencer and nominee for the Jane Grigson Trust Sous Chef Award for debut food writing, Felicty Spector.Bread and War: A Ukrainian Stor...Show More
4) Carolina Doriti: The Greek Islands Cookbook
This week, we’re off to the Greek Islands with chef and food historian, Carolina Doriti for a deeper dive into the stories of Greece through its food. Taking the tourist to see the tradition...Show More
5) Sami Tamimi: Boustany
This week, we’re celebrating the food culture of Palestine with one of its most vocal champions, Sami TamimiSami’s first solo cookbook, Boustany, meaning 'my garden', is about the abundance of vegetar...Show More
6) Emily Scott: Home Shores
This week, we’re off to Bordeaux with chef, author and friend of the podcast, Emily Scott to talk about fish in her latest book, Home Shores.After the kids have left home and as she faces a big birthd...Show More
7) Elisabeth Luard: Classic Spanish Recipes
This week, we’re back at Gilly's How to Cook Book food writing retreat at her house just outside Lewes in East Sussex with muse-in-residence, the grande dame of British food writing, Elisabeth Luard.A...Show More
8) Keshia Sakarah: Caribe
This week, we’re with British-Caribbean writer, Keshia Sakarah whose debut cookbook, Caribe was shortlisted with Irina Janakievska and Dina for the Jane Grigson Trust Award in 2023. It's a h...Show More
9) Yasmin Khan: Sabzi
This week, Gilly is with the British Iranian/Pakistani human rights activist and food and travel writer, Yasmin Khan to talk about her latest book, Sabzi.Sabzi, meaning greens and herbs in Persia...Show More
10) Cooking the Books Live from Groundswell
In extra episode from Groundswell, the Regenerative Agriculture Festival that Sheila Dillon calls 'the Glastonbury of Food and Farming', Cooking the Books Live discusses the influence of cook books an...Show More