Desert Island Dishes

My guest today is Ben Branson Ben is the founder of Seedlip – Seedlip is a non-alcoholic spirit and it’s the first of its kind. Served in gorgeous clear bottles, with beautiful branding, with names such as Garden 108 and Spice 94, it has all the romance and allure of a gin. Except it is most definitely not gin. It’s beyond clever. Four years ago tee-totaller Ben started tinkering in his kitchen, b...

Margie’s guest this week is Rhiannon Lambert. Rhiannon is a Nutriionist with her own clinic on Harley Street. ,She imparts evidence-based health advice to a whole range of different clients – from young women to new mums and professional athletees. A popular face across social media, newspaper and on TV as she has consulted behind the scenes on the Masterchef series. She also works alongside docto...

Margie’s guest today is Daisy Buchanan Daisy is quite simply a word wizard. She’s a writer, an author, and a journalist. Her writing covers everything from arts, entertainment, and women's issues. She contributes to a whole host of publications including Esquire, Grazia, the Guardian, Look magazine, Marie Claire and the telegraph to name literally just a few! Daisy was Grazia Magazine’s resident a...

My guest today is Mark Hix. Renowned chef and restaurateur, Mark is widely recognised as the reviver of modern British cuisine and is famous for his focus on a straightforward interpretation of British cooking. He is without a doubt one of London’s most eminent restauranteurs. Mark launched his first restaurant – Hix Oyster & Chop House in Farringdon, in 2008, after having spent 17 years as ch...

My guest today is Tommy Clarke, Tommy is a world renowned photographer specialising in stunning aerial shots taken all over the world. Tommy grew up on the south coast of England in Dorset and spent nearly every childhood holiday by the beach. This led to, in his own words, a deep interest of the interaction between water and land and how people connect with that location. However it was when he w...

My guest today is Tessa Cook Tessa is the co founder of Olio the free food sharing app. Olio was launched back in February 2015 by Tessa and her co founder Sasha Celestial-One. The two founders met at business school in California. They launched the app just a few months after having the idea and gave themselves a year to make it work agreeing that if it hadn’t taken off by then they would go back...

My guest this week is Nadine Levy Redzepi. Nadine has just published her first cookbook called Downtime: Deliciousness At Home. Nadine knows a thing or two about amazing food, as she is married to Rene Redzepi, co founder and chef at Noma. Noma is thought by many to be the world's best restaurant and Rene is commonly referred to as the King of Food. She has lived in Portugal, France and England as...

Margie’s castaway this week is Levi Roots. Levi was born Keith Valentine Graham in Jamaica. After his parents moved to the UK when he was 4, he was brought up by his grandparents until he eventually moved to Britain at the age of 11. He shot to fame in 2007 by appearing on Dragon’s Den with his famous Reggae Reggae sauce. He wowed the dragon’s and managed to secure a £50,000 investment from Peter...

Margie’s castaway this week is Candice Brown. Before we go any further this is a very friendly, gentle nudge to say that if you haven’t already do remember to subscribe to this podcast and while you’re at it you may as well rate it and leave a review… hopefully a nice one. It’s honestly so helpful and helps other people to find the podcast, which is great! This is a lovely episode, chatting to the...

My castaway today is Jasmine Hemsley Jasmine is a well being author and chef. She is one half of the hugely successful Hemlsey and Hemsley brand which she runs with her sister. Together they have amassed an army of loyal followers, they have a popular blog, a range of products, they’ve written 2 cookbooks, they have a café in Selfridges AND they even had their very own show on Channel 4. Last week...

Today’s guest is Jenny Dawson Costa Jenny founded Rubies in the Rubble back in 2011 which started out as a stall in Borough Market and now her products are stocked in Waitrose, Selfridges, Harrods and many many more places. Jenny studied maths at university before working for a hedge fund in the City for two years. She wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her degree, but knew she wanted to start...

Margie's castaway today is Sophie Michelle. Sophie comes from a long lineage of avid foodies and professional cooks. She decided at the ago of 15 to pursue a career in cooking and at the age of just 19 she was crowned “Young chef of the year” Sophie has gone on to cook all over the world for a whole host of A list client including Claudia Schiffer and Leonardo Di Caprio, and both Princes William a...

Margie’s castaway is Rebekah Hall. She is the founder of Botanic Lab. Botanic Lab was one of the first juice companies in the UK and they make really delicious juices. Genuinely, really delicious. Rebekah is very impressive and I really like the ethos of the brand; they aren’t selling a dream and they don’t pretend their juices will transform you into a Victoria Secret’s model. They just make deli...

Margie’s castaway is Dhruv Baker. Dhruv not only took part in Masterchef back in 2010 but he went on to win the series and his career has gone from strength to strength since then. He’s published a cookbook, presented TV programmes and regularly writes recipes for magazines. Dhruv went to work in some of the UK’s top kitchens, including Le Gavroche with Michel Roux Jr and The Connaught before star...

Margie’s guest this week is Georgie Coleridge Cole.  Georgie is the Founder and Editor of SheerLuxe, which she incredibly launched at the tender age of 25. Georgie studied French at university in Edinburgh and worked in beauty marketing before launching SheerLuxe. What started out as a directory for the best places to shop online has become a hugely popular digital magazine spanning fashion, beaut...

This weeks castaway is Lily Simpson. Lily is the founder of The Detox Kitchen – which is a series of delicious deli’s and food deliveries. I was going to say that it’s a favourite with A listers, but it’s a favourite of anyone lucky enough to have eaten there! The food is really creative, and delicious and just great. Lily has written one best selling book – and another one is on the way next year...

Margie’s castaway this week is Tess Ward. Tess is a Cordon Bleu trained chef, food writer and model Tess has had a huge year career wise and it was exciting to hear all about some of the things she’s been up to including her biggest “pinch me” moment. Tess travels a lot for work and regularly eats in exciting new restaurants so it was brilliant to hear all about her recommendations and what she’s...

Margie’s castaway this week is Rosie Lovell. Rosie is a cooking superstar. She has set up not one but two fantastic delis. She’s a cookery author, a TV presenter and just generally cooks incredibly delicious things! She opened her first café at the age of just 23 which is so impressive and she just been killing it ever since basically. I love her Desert Island Dishes choices – and she lets us in o...

Margie’s castaway this week is Alex Petrides. Alex is a seriously impressive guy – he was the first employee at Propercorn,the incredibly successful popcorn company and has now gone on to found a company with his brother, Johnathan. The company is called allplants. allplants is a plant based food delivery company which is growing quickly and going from strength to strength. I really enjoyed chatti...

Margie's castaway this week is Dolly Alderton. I went round to her gorgeous flat on a rainy Monday morning and we just had a really lovely chinwag. Dolly is friendly, funny and super successful but also charmingly self-deprecating. We discuss a mutual love of all things Nigella, butter, bread and the joy of having a side of carbs when you’re already having carbs. Dolly has a complicated relationsh...

Margie’s castaway this week is Pip McCormac. Pip is the Lifestyle Director for Red Magazine, he oversees all the food and interiors content in the best-selling women's monthly title in its field. He formerly worked as the Food and Interiors Editor at Sunday Times Style and he has also created a recognisable voice for himself with his popular recipe review blog Pip Cooks The Books. He has now publi...

Margie's castaway this week is Milli Taylor. Milli runs a hugely successful catering company called Milli’s Catering and she just makes the most dribble inducing food – that is to say it’s delicious and she’s ridiculously talented. From large weddings and cocktail parties to hosting small supperclubs in her home, she’s happiest when bringing people together through good food. Milli has cooked for...

Margie's castaway this week is Frances Quinn. Frances is the winner of the Great British Bake Off Series 4. Now, like most people in the UK and probably the world – I am fairly obsessed with the Great British Bake Off, so to meet a winner was a dream come true. Frances is ridicously talented. She sees food in a way that most just don’t and yet it just comes so naturally to her. She makes the most...

Margie’s castaway this week is Georgia Cummings. Georgia is the founder of Potage – the healthy home cooked food delivery service. Their goal is to make eating well easy and there’s an emphasis on fresh, quality ingredients. I went to the bustling kitchens of Potage to meet Georgia and she was so lovely. She is a great example of someone who has built something from the ground up with minimal fund...

Margie's castaway this week is Giovanna Ryan. Giovanna was runner up on this years Masterchef. I am a HUGE fan of masterchef, I absolutely love it – so it was great to meet Giovanna and get some of the inside goss on behind the scenes on Masterchef. Since Masterchef Giovanna has set up a supper club and events company called Three Girls Cook with two other fellow contestants which is very cool. An...