Kitchen Table Talk

Well, a great big hello to you all! This week on Kitchen Table Talk, I sat down with the brilliant Claire Ruston for a good natter about food writing, slow living and what it really looks like to build a creative life on your own terms. Claire is an award-winning food writer ( The Guild of Food Writers Newcomer Award Winner 2023), a long-time blogger turned Substacker and a freelance writer who al...

In today’s Kitchen Table Talk, the brilliant Andrew Dargue (founder of Vanilla Black ) joins me for a Q&A. Over the past couple of weeks, I asked you for your questions for Andrew - and you sent in some excellent ones! Our chat ended up as a great mix of practical cooking tips, thoughtful career advice and a sort of behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life that was very interesting. If you don’t...

Today I sat down with the brilliant Felicity Spector for this edition of Cook the Books Live - and what a powerful conversation it was. You might know Felicity as a journalist, a fantastic food writer, a Great Taste Awards judge, or from her extraordinary book Bread and War - which follows the people and places feeding Ukraine through the ongoing invasion. One thing I loved hearing Felicity talk a...

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Simple Things Made Well When I first picked up Kitchen Table , I thought I knew what to expect. A nice bakery cookbook with tasty bread recipes, some pastries, delicious looking cakes… maybe a sourdough chapter. What I wasn’t expecting was to find myself captivated by how they obtain their olive oil from a single producer in Greece called Honest Toil - which is bought by the pallet load at the sta...