The Cookbook Circle

Do you like Asian food and tangents? Well, boy do we have the episode for you! Of course we give you the lowdown on Hetty McKinnon's book, To Asia With Love, where she creates veggie versions of all her childhood faves, but we also find out what Victoria's fictional dogs would be called, and Hannah maybe breaks the record for the amount of puns in one episode. Not to be missed! Support us on Patre...

Stand mixer? Check. Piping bags? Check. A minor kitchen disaster? Check. We're all set for Ravneet Gill's pastry-school-in-a-book, The Pastry Chef's Guide. We love a baking book - our first since Dorie Greenspan last season - so get that sweet tooth ready and join us to find out what we made (and while we develop a big ol' crush on Ravneet). Do you have a copy of this at home and if not, are you t...

It may be Alice's book, but Hannah and Victoria are the ones in vegetable Wonderland for this episode. We are digging deep into Alice Zaslavsky's ode to all (seriously, all) the vegetables, In Praise of Veg. It's colourful, classy and full of fun aaaand the book is interesting too... So, come down the rabbit hole and join us in Wonderland. Let us know what you love about this book, there are so ma...

Grab those cukes and crouts, we're about to talk all things Molly Baz, the all-American gal who you may know from Bon Appetit, and her first book, Cook This Book. We do our very best to get down with the kids (and ultimately resort to our most cynical British and Irish selves) while scanning QR codes and learning all of Molly's Golden Rules - but, as always, we are truly psyched to be here. Let us...

We're back for Season 2 and it's a beauty of book to kick us off: Meera Sodha's ode to all things Asian and vegetarian, East. We're giddy to be back together and cooking, rating, ranting and (maybe) raving about cookbooks, so please excuse alll the tangents. In the end, all roads lead East for this one. You might have a fave Meera recipe from her books or column in the Guardian, and if so, please...

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It's the Cookbook Circle podcast, but imagine we've covered ourselves in gold foil and faint sleigh bells can be heard as we talk all things Christmas cookbooks! We're doing things a little bit differently for our Christmas episode - we've each picked a Christmas cookbook to cook from and review. We also share your recommendations for Christmas cooking from across the globe. What's Victoria's vice...

And that's a wrap on Season One! In this final episode, we take a look back at the season, the Masterlist (TM) and answer your very excellent questions for the two of us. In unsurprising news to literally everyone, we laugh, we cry (not quite), we make puns, we sing just a little too much... We also give a little teaser of what to expect in Season Two and we already cannot wait to get back talking...

​​It's the final cookbook, do do do do do. We've climbed all the way to the top of masterlist mountain and we found Marcella Hazan and The Essentials of Italian Cooking. You heard that right, a book about Italian food was the top of the list!​ Find out how Marcella was teaching Italian cooking before she herself learned to cook, and more importantly, hear our very strong opinions about coating foo...

We’re fulfilling all of our cookie-themed dreams with this, our penultimate book of the season. Dorie ‘cooler than Mary Berry’ Greenspan guides us along the butter-stick-paved road to baking heaven with her book, Baking: From My Home To Yours. Please be warned, this one unearths some interesting opinions about baked goods… We’d love to hear if you have a favourite Dorie recipe or if you’ve ever bu...

Get yourself a can of tunny fish and settle in for an episode filled to the brim with tomatoes and courgettes. There's lots of fun treats for you in this episode, all about Elizabeth David's classique, French Provincial Cooking, including: ideas for your next joyful bingewatch, a snapshot of Hannah's recent holiday and Victoria's attempt at sounding posh for parsley. Let us know if you have any to...

Get those chickpeas soaking and your list of niche ingredients ready - Ottolenghi's back with another book this season, and this time it's with Sami Tamimi, for a culinary journey through fascinating Jerusalem. After a spate of general, encyclopedia-style books (and a whole lot of French food), we are thrilled to get cooking something a little different. Find out how Hannah's carrying on Victoria'...

A-B-C, easy as gas-tron-o-my? We find out in this episode, all about legendary chefy encyclopedia, Larousse Gastronomique, brainchild of Prosper Montagné, with modern input from many others. We get stuck into some snacks and then our favourite topic - traditional French cooking. We recorded this episode in person for the first time ever so lots of exciting things take place, including our writing...

We return to familiar territory in this episode with lots of British cooking, courtesy of the one and only Delia. We've been all about the chonky books lately and How to Cook is no exception (and approximately 75% of this is about eggs). Victoria gets to grips with some old-school classics, Hannah slacks off by cooking a measly two recipes and we learn lots of fun facts about Ms. Smith in between....

They've let us loose in the cookbook factory with this minisode! We're talking all about how some of the books we've given the Cookbook Circle treatment to this season came into being. We welcome Julie Gibbs, who has worked in publishing for more than 30 years, as the the Cookbook Circle's first guest. Julie had the unique and very special honour of publishing both Stephanie Alexander's The Cook's...

Another episode, another classic! This time we're on a journey through time with Irma Rombauer's Joy of Cooking. We further our knowledge into unusual meats, go all gooey over Irma's story and please be warned - this episode has a very high cheese content! So, settle in with a peanut butter and tomato sandwich and twelve dozen cookies and feel the joy. Please tell us your favourite recipes from th...

We're heading back to the US - or is it France? - for this episode, all about Thomas Keller's The French Laundry. And oh boy, is it fancy. We shortcut our way through this one while emptying our bank accounts on ingredients, with only a rant or two along the way. Find out how we get along, and let us know if you've ever attempted any Michelin-starred cooking at home @cookbookcircle on Twitter and...

A big ol' episode for a big ol' book! We've learnt a lot through cooking through The Cook's Companion by Stephanie Alexander. We've learned how Aussies get their supply of kangaroo meat, what a wheat biscuit is and most importantly, that Stephanie Alexander is an Australian national treasure. Get stuck into this episode and find out how we faired against the tome to end all tomes. Hopefully we don...

Get your woks out, grab that galangal and settle in for some very serious cooking with David Thompson's encyclopaedic, simply-titled Thai Food. Join us as we desperately hunt for a vegetarian recipe, order niche ingredients from Amazon Prime and experience a Cookbook Circle first! Do you have a copy of Thai Food? We'd love to hear what you've made from it - let us know @cookbookcircle on Twitter a...

Yum. A podcast with the perfect balance of flavours, charred to perfection. This episode we're talking all about Samin Nosrat's beautiful book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. We've caught the Samin bug with this book and we can only hope to transfer a slither of her positivity to your ears. Find out why this book makes us think of sunny holidays and why our freezers are now fit to burst with Samin's recip...

Allez! Join us as we attempt to master the art (and dairy) of French cooking alongside the wonderful Julia Child, who changed the American home-cooking scene with this book in 1961, firmly establishing herself as one of the most-loved figures in the cookbook world. Find out what we love about her unique style of recipe-writing, which saucy classic Victoria cooked up and which cartoon crush Hannah...

We are back with a pukka podcast all about a little known wicked chef called Jamie. We're stripping down to our beaded necklaces and cooking up treats from Jamie Oliver's first ever cookbook, The Naked Chef. There's so much to say about this book, and that's just about Mr Oliver's style. Come to find out if the book that started it all for Jamie Oliver is worth your time, and stay to find out whic...

Serial seducer? Anti-feminist? Cooking prodigy? We discuss "Le Chef" behind the questionably designed website and book, Cook to Bang - a concept so outrageous that we're interrupting normal service to bring you an adorable little minisode all about it. Brace yourself for Victoria and Hannah reciting their favourite parts of the website and find out which of the haute-cuisine recipes we decided to...

If episode 6 were an emoji, it'd be the one with the love heart eyes. We're discussing everyone's favourite local produce pusher, Nigel Slater, and his book, Kitchen Diaries I . Nigel's book gives you recipes for a whole year helping you to understand which seasonal produce to buy and when. So, of course Hannah and Victoria both test recipes designed for 6 months from now... Sorry Nigel! Let us kn...

For our fifth episode, we’re talking Moro by Sam and Sam Clark, a chef couple united in their love for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavours, simplicity, good ingredients and marrying someone with the same name. We also talk – not related in any way to Moro – about Japan’s snack selection, convenience store and a somewhat controversial opinion about French bakeries. Do you have Moro in your co...