My guest today is Millie Mackintosh

Millie first made her name as part of the original line up of made in chelsea in 2011. After 5 seasons she descided to embark on a career spanning from beauty to fashion, to lifestyle and fitness. She’s been in the public eye for over a decade – she’s a business woman, and health and wellness advocate – having been on the cover of Womens Health a whopping 4 times. 

Passiionate about good food, mental health and as now the mother of two young children she’s got a whole new perspective on what healthy means to her. Having amassed well over a million followers on social media, she’s had her own fashion and beauty lines, written a book and has her her own podcast.

She if often described as a style icon, and was even described in one interview I came across as being a “bit like human berocca” which is quite possibly the best compliment I’ve ever come across.

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I'm excited to share a podcast recommendation with you this week. It's a podcast from America called The One Recipe.

From the team that brought you The Splendid Table at APM Studios, The One Recipe is a podcast devoted to that one recipe you keep in your back pocket. The one you send to friends, make for your mom, the one you entirely depend on because you know it’s going to work. Host Jesse Sparks, Senior Editor at Eater, talks to some of the biggest names in food, including Sohla and Ham El-Waylly, Khushbu Shah, Eric Kim, Soleil Ho, Kristen Miglore, Pati Jinich, Yotam Ottolenghi, Stephen Satterfield, and… the list goes on. He draws out the sweet, funny and surprising stories behind their chosen recipes. It's charming, fun and sure to give you lots of inspiration.

The episode I'm sharing with you today is with the brilliant Claire Saffitz. She sits down with Jesse this week to discuss her career trajectory, explain why we shouldn’t fear “water baths” and take us step by step through her 3-in-1 recipe for Choose-Your-Own-Ending Custards: Crème Brûlèe, Crème Caramel, or Pot De Créme. Claire Saffitz is a cookbook author, recipe developer, and video host, she's really fab and definitely on the list of people I'd love to get on Desert Island Dishes.

Find The One Recipe wherever you get your podcasts and check out their Instagram @the.one.recipe

We are back on Thursday with another episode of Desert Island Dishes and The Dream Dinner Party will resume next week!

Margie x

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Jimi is a writer, broadcaster and food critic. He is the chief restaurant critic for the Evening Standard, a regular guest judge on the BBC One series MasterChef and was also one of the judges on Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver.

In 2021, he won Restaurant Writer of the Year at both the Fortnum & Mason Awards and the Guild of Food Writers Awards and as an interviewer he has profiled Black African Londoners including Idris Elba, John Boyega and Skepta.

He says the thing he loves most about writing about food is “Food is wordless communication. A way to be creative, clever or reference culture without speaking. I love being a conduit for that, trying to find the words so people can share the experience, almost taste the food.” And when you read his work, this is nothing but the truth with the way he has with words and transporting you to the setting about which he is writing, despite being on the tube or on your sofa.

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My guest today is Ravinder Bhogal

Kenyan born, raised in the UK by Indian parents, Ravinder Bhogal is one of the UK’s most successful food writers, restaurateurs and chefs. Calling her food and menus “proudly inauthentic”, Ravinder’s work and food spans flavours and culinary traditions from the Asia, The Middle East, East Africa and Britain – celebrating the idea of immigrant cuisine.

She opened her first restaurant Jikoni in Marylebone in 2016 and it quickly became a roaring success, collecting culinary accolades, such as being placed in the Michelin Guide within its first year as well as collecting regular clients with whom Ravinder and team get to know well – giving the restaurant a real neighbourhood feel.

Ravinder’s latest book comes from a lockdown idea, where her and her husband began making meals for front-line workers in London, named Comfort & Joy. This book, also named Comfort & Joy, is a glorious collection of vegetarian/vegan recipes that celebrate eating in a vegetable forward way that is easy and accessible to all.

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This week cook and food writer Sophie Wyburd tells us all about her Dream Dinner Party. This one has it all! Popstars, cooks and wizards!

Sophie has the most infectious laugh and her passion for food and for feeding people really comes through. If you heard Sophie’s episode of Desert Island dishes then hopefully you will enjoy a little encore from sophie and if you haven’t listened to her full episode yet, then that’s something you should definitely check out.

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My guest today is Claire Thompson otherwise known as the 5 o’clock apron.

Claire is a chef, food writer and the author of 8 cookery books. Her writing is focused around the idea of creating proper food for modern families. And she aims for her food to Inspire but it’s also down to earth enough not to be intimidating 

She was born and raised in Zimbabwe and Botswana and over many generations her family has had a deep connection with Africa, she returned to London at the age of 8 beofre heading to deepest darkest Shropshire aged 10 for her teenage years. 

She says she got the cooking bug on a trip to Sydney in her early twenties and then spent her twenties working in restaurants, even setting up her own, the Flinty Red in Bristol with her husband who is also a chef. 

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Welcome to another episode of our side side dish: The Dream Dinner Party. This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us their dream dinner party. They are allowed to invite 4 guests – dead or alive because really I think personally 5 people is the optimum number for a great dinner party. And they are going to be talking us through their dream menu.

My guest this week is Nina Parker . Nina is a London based chef and food writer. 

She currently has three cookbooks and makes the most delicious collection of sauces under her brand Saucy. These plant-based jars of saucery (yes) are made for dripping, drizzling and frankly smothering over EVERYTHING. There’s chilli, oil, chilli sambal, peanut salsa, and as smoked pesto. All available from Nina’s website. You can find it here. 

I love sauces like these are they elevate the every day – you can make something really simple like scrambled egg, drizzle over some sauce and in an instant you’ve turned it into something really special. I highly recommend.

The question is: who would you invite to your Dream Dinner Party and what would you serve them to eat?

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Amelia is the founder of the Bold Bean Co. She’s on a mission to make us all obsessed with beans by bringing us the best of beans.

She launched the business officially in 2021 following what she describes as a bean epiphany in Spain when she decided that the UK both needed and deserved better beans. Amelia is also passionate about sustainability and sees beans as the future of food.

Now listed in Selfridges, Waitrose and Planet Organic (as well as numerous independent shops and online outlets), Bold Beans are taking the food world by storm. Through targeting and working with influential chefs, cooks and food writers, they’re creating a community of bean lovers who are passionate about sharing their products. Supporters include Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, MOB, Melissa Hemsley, Laura Jackson and Joe Woodhouse, and Sheila Dillon interviewed Amelia on Radio 4’s The Food Programme as part of a two-episode special on beans.

On top of all this, Bold Bean are about to release its first cookbook, which you can buy here! 

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This week John Torode talks us through his Dream Dinner Party and we are off to Singapore to board the Orient Express! All aboard!

John is one of the food world’s most recognisable faces. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, starting his career in the world of food at the age of 16.

He credits his love of food and passion for cooking to his grandmother, who raised him from the age of 4. After apprenticeships at some of Melbourne’s best restaurants, he moved to the UK in the 1990s, where he quickly made a name for himself. He worked his way up from a sous chef at Quaglino’s and he’s had his own hugely successful restaurants, the likes of Smiths and The Luxe.

He first appeared on ITV‘s This Morning in 1996 and became a household name as the co-host of Masterchef in 2005 which will enter its 20th season next year. He’s written numerous best-selling cookbooks and made a whole host of award-winning TV shows and was honoured in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2022 for outstanding services to food, broadcasting and charity.

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My guest today is David Gandy.

After winning a televised modelling competition at the age of 21 he went on to become the world’s first and most successful male supermodel. David’s big break came in 2007 in the form of his first Dolce & Gabbana campaigns, which saw him become a global sensation overnight when the iconic image of him wearing tiny white trunks in a boat in Capri shot by Mario Testino appeared on a 50ft billboard in Times Square. He still fronts this Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue campaign today, as well as working with the biggest brands and names in the industry, from high fashion to high street. 

A style icon, family man, vintage car aficionado and now founder of his eponymous brand, David Gandy Wellwear.

His university housemate secretly entered a photo of him into a competition on This Morning to win a modelling contract and all these years later, things don’t seem to be slowing down for him either. Between modelling being a father of 2 and his own line, he says that he has always treated his career as a business and has learned his biggest lessons from supermodels such as Christy Turlington and Kate Moss.

Despite the pressures to be in incredible shape, David has always said he eats a mix of foods and in moderation, staying away from ultra processed foods and he spent lockdown whipping up delicious meals in his mother-in-law’s big Le Creuset pot. 

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