Flavour

This edition brings expert advice on barbecuing from Vladimir Horek of Smokeworks amongst others. We also speak with Samira Effa, head chef at Alimentum, about what it’s like to take charge there and how the menu is changing. We hear about artisan jams jellies and chutneys fom Cambridge Preserves Kitchen. We find out about price increases on fresh vegetables. Dave Fox advises on late sowing and other means to ensure home-grown vegetables in these drought-striken days. We also have up-to-the-minute food news and details of what food is available free. Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Dr Sue Bailey.

The Cambridgeshire Cookbook Second Helpings is just published. We speak to the chefs about their recipes. A new company is producing top-rated produce, we meet Seed to Feed. More on those guilty food secrets, why do top chefs enjoy hot dogs, pot noodles and the like? Also, Alice Archer on wine and we look at the new edition of Where Chefs Eat. Presented by Matt Bentman and Alan Alder.

We hear the extraordinary tale of Pinkster Gin; which top Cambridge chef hankers after hot dogs? Who loves tinned semolina? And who makes cocktails using Mars bars? On this week’s Flavour, we reveal the top Cambridge Guilty Food Secrets. Also, Sam and Alex Carter of Restaurant 22 talk food with Liz Young and Tine Roche of Cambridge Cookery and Bistro; Alexis Moreau and Alice Archer on their forthcoming British Food and English Wines evening; and Dave Fox tells how to help your plants survive hot, dry conditions. Plus all the local food and drink news. Presented by Matt Bentman and Alan Alder.

Tristan Welch of Parker’s Tavern tells us what got him into cooking, the importance of wild food, the influence of his mentors, who include both Michel Roux Snr and Jr. and kitchen flamboyance. Also, Mill Road Butchers reopens, we find out what’s changed. The Guerrilla Kitchen food truck is now joined by Meatless, Jay Scrimshaw (pictured) explains the expansion. Kyung on Kyum’s sauces and Dave Fox advises on June jobs at the allotment.

Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Dr Sue Bailey.

Rachel Roddy of The Guardian talks about food in Rome and how her blog led to a career in writing. Alex Rushmer, ex-Hole in the Wall, on his plan for a new restaurant in the centre of Cambridge. Alice Archer on her five week South African vineyard stint. Food in Ely, including 11A bar-kitchen-lounge. A new steet food provider hits Cambridge. Plus the Cambridge food and drink news.

Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Rosie Applin.

Bee Wilson, BBC Radio’s food writer of the year, drops in to Flavour to talk about diet, cooking skills and how our great grandmothers got it right. In addition, the team takes a visit to Coffee World, a company which has been roasting beans in Cambridge for over 30 years. We hear from Eat Cambridge, and from Gemma Whiting of Linton Kitchen, about events coming up in this year’s festival including details of which have sold out and which are filling up rapidly.

Presented by Matt Bentman and Rosie Applin.

Empty Common in Brooklands Avenue provides a very picturesque spot for growing your own. We talk with some growers. Rosie Sykes and Rachel Roddy are doing the opening dinner for this year’s Eat Cambridge, Rosie tells us what’s on the menu. Other Eat Cambridge participants include Flock Cafe at Burwash and Que Rico Tapas, and we find out what they’ll be doing. In addition, we visit the new tapas restaurant Tu Casa on Mill Road and discover why it’s proving so popular, and we go along to the tea rooms in Grantchester. Presented by Matt Bentman and Dr Sue Bailey.

We explore Mill Road’s Lagona Bakery; in Conversations About Food, Tine Roche of Cambridge Cookery and Bistro speaks with Samira Effa, head chef at Alimentum. We get an Eat Cambridge update from its director, Heidi White. And we look at the weather, Chris, a market stall holder, says what will it mean for fresh food supplies, and Dave Fox from Trumpington Allotments advises on what we can do to hurry our own crops along. Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Dr Sue Bailey.

Flavour celebrates chocolate. We find the best types of chocolate on sale and discover a stunning drinking chocolate. Estefania Led Ramos continues the Easter theme with a feature about Easter food in Spain. Bookings for Eat Cambridge’s fringe events are about to open. We get an exclusive preview from director Heidi White. And a look at how The Plough in Shepreth became the centre of the community.

Presented by Matt Bentman and Alan Alder.

In this edition we find out what the new owners of Restaurant 22 have in store when it reopens on 27 March. We eavesdrop as Tine Roche and Liz Young of Cambridge Cookery share food memories with Cambridge-based chef and food writer Alex Rushmer. Two years after it opened, we re-visit the Allotment Kitchen to hear about how it has developed and how social media has helped in marketing. Tristan Welch talks about the new menu at Parker’s Tavern and Dave Fox has advice on reducing pests on the vegetable plot.

Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Dr Sue Bailey.