GILLY SMITH
Food journalist and podcast producer
Podcasts

Behind the book with Saliha Mahmood Ahmed

Behind the book with Saliha Mahmood Ahmed

In this week’s podcast I talk to the 2017 MasterChef winner, Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, to discuss her new Indo-persian book Khazana. It all started with a passion to find out more about the Mughal empires of the 15th-18th centuries and luckily for Saliha, the emperors of that time adored their food so much, the history of their food was well documented. She discovered just how extraordinary their contribution to food was. Khazana, meaning ‘treasure trove’…

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The Michelin-starred restaurant that’s saving the planet

The Michelin-starred restaurant that’s saving the planet

This week I chat to restaurateur David Moore, from Pied à Terre – one of London’s longest standing Michelin fine dining restaurants – which offers vegetarian and vegan menus. From adding vegan dishes to the menu to attempting to have zero waste in his kitchen, he tells me how he’s trying to have a positive impact on the planet. Click here to listen

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The best food books of 2018

The best food books of 2018

Deputy editor of delicious. Magazine, Susan Low created her 2018 top ten books for delicious. magazine before the year was out – you can find them here – but the book she chooses as her number one arrived on her desk too late for the list… Here we discuss the food books that we’ve loved most this year. Click here to listen

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Can a farm be carbon positive?

Can a farm be carbon positive?

I headed to the Abergavenny food festival, back in September, and met Sarah Dickins and Nick Miller of Pen-y-Wyrlod Lamb to discuss how they are doing things differently on their farm in Wales. Sarah and Nick’s goal is to produce sheep utterly sustainably and to have a carbon-positive farm. We discuss the concerns of veganism for farmers and how, at their farm, they work with the land to actually reduce…

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Listen in for an interview with the Honey & Co owners

Listen in for an interview with the Honey & Co owners

This week I talk to the owners of Honey & Co about Israeli cuisine, women in the kitchen and how, with their new book, you can recreate the food you eat in their restaurant, at home. Husband and wife team, Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, are the couple behind the award-winning Honey & Co in London. As well as their restaurant, which opened on Warren Street in 2012, they have…

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