Gilly Smith

Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

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Cooking the Books is about all of life through the prism of food, from climate change to culture and politics to people. It's for foodie book lovers who want to hear something more profound about the way we live, making the link between delicious food and the impact of food production on the land, all through four food moments from the books of our favourite food writers. Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is the winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Best Broadcast or Podcast Award 2022, and was shortlisted for Fortnum and Mason Best Podcast 2022 and 2024. Hear how A-lister food writers have ch...

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Gilly Smith

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Miranda Gore Brown: Bake Me a Cake as Fast as You Can 19.03.2020 27:09

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 about so much more than cake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ryan Riley: Life Kitchen 12.03.2020 33:03

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 thousands of people living with cancer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Romy Gill: Zaika 05.03.2020 35:11

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 which inspired her debut cookbook, Zaika, and led her to become one of BBC TV's latest TV chefs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melissa Hemsley: Eat Green 27.02.2020 37:37

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 fridge can be a delicious way to save the planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave: The Mercies 20.02.2020 35:23

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 novel The Mercies, a story of love, evil, and obsession based on the 1621 witch trials Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olivia Potts: A Half Baked Idea 12.02.2020 35:07

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/privacy for more information.