Recipe for Greatness

Today's guest is Amy Moring who is the co-founder of Hunter & Gather who she founded with her partner, Jeff who is also her partner in life. Too often we can think about creating a business because that's what we want to do, that's what everyone is doing at the moment, but the question people can stumble on is what is the product. In this conversation, we talk all about starting...

This week on the podcast we have Andy Lawson who is the founder of  FodaBox ( Borough Box ) - the online marketplace for independent food and drink brands. I consider Andy to be a direct-to-consumer master. After spending years in the digital marketing area, Andy decided to apply his love for food, particularly from individual artisan producers, and bring them both together to create an online pla...

Today's guest is Julianne Ponan who is the founder of Creative Nature , Top 14 Allergen Free Easy to Make Baking Mixes, Snack Bars other delicious treats. I loved this chat because Julianne was so open and honest. She opens up about her struggle as a young female and business and how she overcame the challenges, learning from failures and coming back stronger and succeeding, her journey to cr...

This week on the podcast we have Charlotte Dauzat , The Co-founder of GATO who make delicious plant-based snacks. Charlotte has had a career that has taken her across the world working in many different roles, from management consulting to head of marketing. After studying patisserie at the world-famous Le Cordon Bleu culinary school , charlotte decided to found her own company.  I love this chat...

Today's guest is Rushina Shah , the co-founder of Insane Grain - the healthy snack brand championing Sorghum.  Rushina's journey is incredible and along the way she has picked up many awards such as; Forbes 30 under 30, grocer's top new talent 2018, NPN's 30 under 30, NatWest great British entrepreneur 2018 finalist, and many others. We sit down and cover lots in this chat from...

Today's guest is Jamie Crummie who is the co-founder of Too Good To Go .  If you don't know who Too Good To Go is, they're an app connecting businesses that have unsold food with consumers who can purchase, collect and enjoy it so that it doesn’t go to waste. Globally they have over 20 million registered users who have saved more than 30 million meals from going to waste. 2.5 millio...

My guest today is serial entrepreneur Nick Coleman , not only is he the co-founder of The Snaffling Pig but also the Medical Supermarket , Storage Buddy , and Start-up Logistics . In this chat, you are going to hear all about his first venture into business, but what I really love about this conversation, is the realisation that running your own business and being your own boss isn't enough,...

Today our guest is Charlie Thuiller , the Co-founder of Oppo Brothers Ice Cream , the award-winning, lower-calorie ice cream he, and his co-founder, his brother Harry , created in 2012. I'm a HUGE fan of Oppo ice cream and as you'll hear me and my partner smash through multiple tubs a week so this was a special interview for me. We cover a lot in this chat, and charlie has got bundles of...

Today's guest we have Gaz , the cofounder of Holy Moly Dips , The all-natural, guacamole dips, which are absolutely delicious by the way and the best on the market. Sadly Tom couldn't make it due to a last-minute work commitment but Gaz stepped in for both of them and did not disappoint.  Gaz's value in this chat is incredible and is a must listen to for anyone setting up or at the...

Today's guest is Adam Sopher who is the co-founder of Joe & Seph's - the family run gourmet popcorn makers, with flavours such as Salted Carame l all the way to Bakewell Tart . Joe & Seph's was founded in 2010 by Joeseph, his wife and their son, Adam.   They have given the wonderful listeners of The Recipe for Greatness 20% off online on all orders above £12. Just enter the...

Peter Butler is the Co-founder of Dishpatch , a company that brings the UK's best restaurants to your home with nationwide meal kit delivery. Pete started off his career working in the city but felt the pullback to his lifelong passion, food and hospitality. From a young age Pete had worked in restaurant kitchens, he took cooking courses so he decided to take the dive and set up his first bus...

Hannah McCollum is the founder of ChicP , which makes delicious dips from raw seasonal vegetables. Over the last decade, Hannah McCollum has worked as a private chef, catering for events and businesses across the UK and Europe. After witnessing the colossal amount of food waste in the catering sector, she felt driven to do her bit to tackle the issue. Hannah started to convert leftover vegetables...

Today on the Podcast we have Julie Waddell , who is the founder of Moorish. They make award-winning hummus and dips that are stocked across Sainsbury's, Ocado, Waitrose, and many others. I'm a huge fan, their original smoked hummus is a staple in my fridge at home. Julie's journey is extraordinary: in 2010, while working in broadcast journalism at the BBC, she came up with the idea...

Jonny Burnett is the co-founder of The Conscious Food Co , which delivers only local, sustainable, ethically sourced Fish & Meat, straight from local fishing boats and farmers. Jonny started his career as a chef at the age of 15, training at the river cottage. He then moved to work at Raymond Blanc's two Michelin Star restaurant . After a few other Michelin restaurants in between, Jonny d...

This week on the podcast we have Max & Olly Kohn from The Jolly Hog - you may know them for their bacon, their sausages, their scotch eggs, or one of the other products they do which are stocked nationally across the largest retailers. The Jolly Hog was born in 2008 with Olly making sausages in his downtime. Thinking they were on to something, Josh, his brother, set up in Harlequins rugby club...

Today on the podcast we have Siddhi Mittal who is the Co-founder of YHANGRY that she launched in 2019 with her co-founder Heinin Zhang . Y/hangry is the The very first affordable private chef platform allowing you to instantly book a professional chef to come cook for you at home From as little as £100 including groceries. Y/Hangry recently raised £1.5 million from notable angel investors and Sidd...

Today we have Amanda Argent who is the co-founder of Soupologie & Foodologie , which she set up in 2012 with her husband Stephen. Stephen who had just sold his business and started making soup with Amanda. After it being a big hit with friends and family they decided to try sell it. Fast forward to today Soupologie is stocked in Waitrose and has been a best seller on Ocado since 2014 & Foo...

Stef Pellegrino is the co-founder of Purely Plantain Chips , a brand on a mission to make the world of snacking more exciting. Stef and her co-founder Mark set up the business in 2017 after traveling around South America where they discovered how delicious the plantain chips were there vs what was out there in the market. Stef is great in this conversation because we have all had that light bulb m...

Jacqueline Barleycorn is the founder of The Great British Porridge Co that launched in 2018 with a mission to get people more excited about porridge with flavours such as strawberry and peanut butter, They are now stocked in Sainsbury's across the country. Before porridge Jacqueline and her husband had just settled in to retirement but Jacqueline decided that wasn't for her so decided to...

Finn Lagun is the co-founder of Pasta Evangelists and the Chief Marketing Officer. Pasta Evangelists deliver fresh, restaurant quality pasta to your door. Finn joined in 2017 and he and his co-founders launched the business in 2018. Later that year they appeared on Dragons Den and told they were "Pasta Le Disaster" and delusional. Fast forward to 2021 a majority stake was just purchased...

Anushi Desai is the co-founder of Plant Pops which are popped lotus seeds snacks. They have won Winner of Best Snacking Innovation at the 2019 World Food Innovation Awards. Shortlisted for a Great British Food Award and Anushi was named on starling banks top 15 food entrepreneurs to watch in 2021. Anushi left the world of management consulting in 2019 to go full time with Plant Pops, however she w...

Joe Moruzzi is the founder of Pleesecakes who make the most incredible, cheesecake porn, if you will, desserts. They are stocked in Selfridges, Whole foods and have nationwide delivery. They have over 216 thousand followers on instagram and have been enjoyed by many big celebrities, including the queen. Joe started making cheesecakes in 2015 while running a painting and decorating company, two yea...

Adam Smith is a founder of the multi-award-winning, global initiative: The Real Junk Food Projec t set up in December 2013, to revolutionise the disposal of avoidable food waste into landfill, idea is to feed bellies, not bins. In 2019, TRJFP intercepted about 400 tonnes of food, the equivalent of 950,000 meals. In the first 12 weeks of lockdown in 2020 alone, the team intercepted double that amou...

Today on the podcast we have Joe Taylor who is the co-founder of Real Handful .  Joe  was working in IT and while backpacking in America in 2006 had the idea for trail mixes and saw a gap in the market.  Joe left the world of computers and entered the food and drink world where he worked for notable companies such has Innocent and Heinz, to name a few.  10 years after his initial inspiration, in 2...

Huw Gott Is the co-founder of Hawksmoor , which first opened in 2006 and has grown to become one of the UK’s most respected restaurant groups.  They have a reputation for being the best employers in the industry, being the only hospitality company to have appeared in the Annual Sunday Times Best Places to Work list for each of the last 9 years.  They’re also a founding member of the Sustainable Re...