Crazy Sexy Food

We’ve come to the fourth and final instalment of the CSF X Taste Special Series! It’s been so wonderful sitting down with some of the amazing chefs that make Taste what it is! This week, I leave you with a real BANGER! I’m joined by the man himself, DJ BBQ. Regarded as somewhat of a celebrity in the BBQ scene, this has to be one of the best and most hilarious conversations I’ve had! What a guy he...

This week I am joined by Edson Diaz-Fuentes and his wife Natalie Feary, the duo behind Santo Remedio. The Mexican restaurants, found in London Bridge and Shoreditch, are bringing the real flavours of Mexico to London. This was a conversation about one of – if not my number one – favourite cuisines! Edson remembers queuing up for tamales in Kindergarten; depicting beautiful memories of his childhoo...

Genevieve Taylor is a trooper! She had an injured leg but still went ahead with this recording, opting to lie horizontally throughout the entire episode! I love her! We debate our love for marmite, her idyllic childhood in Cornwall and beyond, and we bond over being inherently greedy women! She gives us some great tips and tricks for BBQing this summer (although we do talk about the fact BBQs aren...

I am so excited to be partnering with Taste of London Festival as their official podcast this year! For the month run up to this year’s festival (15-19th June!) I will be sitting down with some of the famous faces of Taste. This week I am joined by Taste legend, Vivek Singh, who kindly hosted me at The Cinnamon Club in London. He talks all about his childhood growing up in West Bengal, India,...

I can’t believe we’ve come to the end of Season 6! Thank you again for joining me on this incredible journey, continuously supporting and listening to me. Don’t worry – I’ll be back sooner than you think for another bigger and better season! To finish things off, I’m joined by Judy Joo, the Korean chef behind shows such as Iron Chef and restaurants JinJuu and Seoul Bird. She opens up about her chi...

What a character Rosemary Shrager is! Be prepared to laugh your way through this episode with her infectious laugh and wonderful sense of humour! She talks all about her new book – her first novel aptly named The Last Supper and the story behind the story.  We bond over being introverted extroverts (if you can believe that!) and I ask her whether she’s suffered from any prejudice as a self-ta...

What a charming chap musician Jack Savoretti is! It had been a long time coming but we finally sat down to talk all about his Italian heritage, childhood family dinners and some of his naughty food vices! He’s currently on tour so we talk all about finally being out there performing live, his new album, Europiana and he opens up about the music industry; the difficulties he overcame, the time he w...

This week I invite you to listen in on the live recording from my first LIVE event at White City House in London, with the gorgeous Shivi Ramoutar. Following Soho House’s monthly theme of Nourishment, we talk all about how we nourish ourselves from the inside in, eating in moderation and Shivi’s incredible life being born and raised in Trinidad before settling in the UK. She explains the delicious...

When I started Crazy Sexy Food, I wrote a list of dream guests I’d love to have on. If you’d seen it, you would have laughed and told me “Yeah Right!”. So, when I got the call a couple weeks ago that Nobu Matsuhisa was in town to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Nobu London Park Lane, and he was doing a select number of interviews and that CSF was in the running I could not believe it! But h...

Crystelle Pereira is the rising star we all need to know about. If you’re an avid GBBO then you’ll know exactly who she is!  Not only is she my first ever GBBO contestant, but she came over for baclava and a glass water (!) and gave me in inside scoop of how the show works, what it’s like to film in secret for 6 weeks and her favourite bakes from the season. We touch on her Goan Portuguese he...

I am FINALLY joined by my first world champion boxer this week! Lawrence Okolie sat down with me just after retaining his WBO Cruiserweight title (well, not literally straight after, but you know what I mean!). He may have zoomed in from his bed (!), but the champion spoke all about growing up in a Nigerian household and how he STILL doesn’t know how to make jollof rice, his unique success story a...

This week I have a true showbiz superstar joining me, Mr Martin Kemp! He’s done it all; music, TV, film and even GBBO! He popped over and talked all about his time in Spandau Ballet, and the huge success they had overnight. He commends his time on Eastenders, where he played bad boy Steve Owen as saving his life after a very traumatic experience with a brain tumour.  The man is still as gorge...

It was an absolute honour (and somewhat nerve wracking) to have Marcus Wareing join me in my kitchen for a chat this week. He came in, saw my stew bubbling away on the stove, gave me some lifechanging tips and then sat down with a cuppa and spoke to me all about his life growing up in Southport, his boxing days, and his experience coming to London to work at The Savoy and Le Gavroche. He discusses...

It had been a long time coming to get this brilliant woman onto the podcast, and we finally did it after months of planning! Adjoa Andoh has been on our screens and stages for years, and currently plays the incredible Lady Danbury in a little-known show called Bridgerton! She talks about her wonderful upbringing with a real mixture of food and cuisines being around her English mother and Ghanaian...

What a special episode this was, getting to sit down with one of my favourite childhood boybands, Five! They’re back with a new album after 20 years and I got to chat to them all about it! The three of them, Scott, Ritchie and Sean, all admitted they’re much healthier than they used to be; in fact, none of them had eaten breakfast as they’re all intermittent fasting!! We cover everything: Scott’s...

I’m back! Season 6 is here!!! I am soooo excited to be back on the airwaves doing what I love. This season is going to be so much fun, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do making it! I’m joined by ex-NFL star, Jason Bell. We thought we’d honour the biggest sporting event in the world – The Super Bowl – which is played this Sunday and what better way that getting the ex-New York Giants, The Dallas C...

I hate goodbyes!! What a season it’s been, thank you so much for continuing to support and listen to the podcast; I can’t tell you how much joy doing all of this brings me. Before I leave you for a couple months, I sit down with well-known chef and probably one of the most successful Italian imports, Mr Francesco Mazzei. You may recognise him from his many TV stints, or you may have frequented one...

This is why I LOVE DOING A PODCAST! I have never met Omid Djalili before and within the first few seconds, I found out he knew my Iranian grandfather very well and knows my family! What are the chances? We cover everything in this episode – our favourite Iranian dishes, being pigeon holed as a Middle Eastern man, the comedy world and the fine line between being funny and being cancelled Omid regal...

This week I am joined by the delightful MØ – the Danish singer/songwriter behind some of the hugest tunes namely Lean On featuring Major Lazer and DJ Snake and Coldwater with Justin Bieber! She joins me over video link from Copenhagen and we bonded over our love of the Spice Girls (and both agreeing on our favourite song and video), she explains to me her favourite Danish dishes as well as what sh...

I had to take one for the team this week! I had the gorgeous Bradley Simmonds over to my house, fully clothed (boo) and we bond over football, how to properly have a scone with jam and cream – or is it cream and jam?! The personal trainer to the stars and health and fitness influencer is a big name in the showbiz scene and I had him all to myself for an hour! We discuss his Irish background and ho...

I have the “sweetest” guest for you this week! Lily Jones aka Lily Vanilli is the lady behind your favourite cakes, and now hosts the delectable high tea at The Theatre Royal Dury Lane where we recorded from! She grew up in Saudi Arabia, but her taste for the sweet life started during 2008 when she was tight on money, honed in on her baking talents, and the rest, as she says, is history! Lily...

This is a biggie!! All cards on the table, the question sheets have been ripped up. I went up to The Rudloe Arms and spent a day with the man, the myth, the legend, Mr Marco Pierre White, and all I can say is that it was one of the most profound experiences of my life. His generosity and honesty throughout our chat, as well as the day spent together is something I will never forget. He talks about...

This week the lovely Remi Nicole joins me, at my house, for a good ol’ chinwag! The musician and screenwriter is back in London after 10 years in LA, via Mexico – where we have a great discussion about one of my favourite cuisines! Remi is of mixed heritage: Trinidadian, Austrian and Jewish. She went to a Jewish school in London where she had to deal with questions about how she could be Jewish an...

I think my time with Pierre Koffmann has to be up there with some of the pinch me moments of my career. It’s fair to say that he is a living legend and I not only got the chance to record with him for the podcast, but was also asked to join him for lunch afterwards with his lovely wife, Claire!  We recorded at the fabulous Spanish restaurant, Arros in London and talked all about the BBC’...

Dan Saladino is one of those rare gems you meet who really change your outlook on life. The journalist and broadcaster, best known for fronting BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme knows everything there is to know about food. He has a new book out “Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them”, which details unbelievably interesting stories about some of the most endang...