Food FM

In partnership with the International Wine and Spirit Competition www.iwsc.net - using the best in the world to judge the best in the world. Rosé is on a roll! David catches up with Master of Wine Dirceu Vianna Junior, an expert on rosé wines who oversees the category for the IWSC, to find out why we’re all sinking the pink, whether colour really matters and the wines we should all be watching out for, including the first IWSC wine winners from the 2022 awards.

Belazu, food supplier to chefs and home cooks, launch Flavour Talks a podcast all about extraordinary and un-compromised flavour. Bob's sits down with Tom Barton, co-founder of Honest Burgers and James Elliot co-founder of Pizza Pilgrims for an utterly mouth-watering conversation all about two of our favourite things! These eager entrepreneurs tell us what life was like before they launched their businesses, how they’ve developed their restaurants into local stalwarts and what the future looks like in the burger and pizza landscape.

In partnership with Peter’s Yard petersyard.com - This week we delve behind the restaurant cheeseboard to gain some insights into the restaurant cheese network. Tom Badcock of Harvey & Brockless, the speciality food producer and distributor, shares tales of supplying cheese to the hospitality sector, chef Graham Garrett tells us how he cooks and serves cheese at his restaurant The West House in Biddenden, Kent and Rhuaridh Buchanan of Buchanan’s Cheesemonger discusses the world of affinage and how he matures cheese for top-end restaurants.

In partnership with the International Wine and Spirit Competition www.iwsc.net - using the best in the world to judge the best in the world. David reflects on the fifth series of the Drinking Hour, to select his favourite moments, including a tribute to Steven Spurrier, veteran drinks writer Susy Atkins, Yalumba Chief Winemaker Louisa Rose talking Viognier, Alistair Cooper MW on Chile’s renaissance, Madeleine Stenwreth MW on altitude wines in Argentina and an intro to New York’s Finger Lakes from Kelby Russell at Red Newt.

In partnership with Peter’s Yard petersyard.com - A really important part of British cheese heritage is what are called its territorial cheeses, such as Lancashire or Cheshire. We talk to cheesemonger Andy Swinscoe of The Courtyard Dairy about this very British tradition and farmer and cheesemaker David Clarke of the Leicestershire Handmade Cheese Company tells me why he started making his acclaimed Sparkenhoe, an artisan Leicester cheese.

In partnership with the International Wine and Spirit Competition www.iwsc.net - using the best in the world to judge the best in the world. David talks to entrepreneur Elwyn Gladstone, a great, great grandson of Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister, who has made a name for himself as an innovator in the drinks world, launching brands such as Malfy Gin, Hotel Starlino and his latest creation, Gladstone Axe Scotch Whisky.

Caroline Kenyon talks to Mark Sisson, US fitness writer and food blogger, about his latest book, Two Meals Day, about how we eat too much, of the wrong kinds of food, at the wrong time of the day - and how people can break free.

Belazu, food supplier to chefs and home cooks, launch Flavour Talks a podcast all about extraordinary and un-compromised flavour. This week we are talking to Sam Clark co-founder of Moro restaurant and Morito, of which Moro is celebrating 25 years on the food landscape and Dr Polly Russel, Head of the eccles centre for american studies at the British library, and founder and curator of their food season. Amongst other things we will be discussing 13th century Moorish/Spanish cuisine, how a manuscript can lay unfound for 500 years and how food changes (or doesnt) through the ages.

In partnership with Peter’s Yard petersyard.com - The family of soft cheeses includes classics such as Brie, Camembert and soft goat’s cheeses. We talk to award-winning cheesemakers Stacey Hedges of Hampshire Cheese Company, famous for her Tunworth cheese, Kevin Blunt of Golden Cross Cheese and to Victoria Stewart-Liberty of Mons Cheese about the glories of France’s soft cheese scene.

In partnership with the International Wine and Spirit Competition www.iwsc.net - using the best in the world to judge the best in the world. David talks to Master of Wine Madeleine Stenwreth, international winemaking consultant, expert on Argentina and specialist on the impact of altitude on winemaking, to explore the country’s most exciting wines and styles, including her latest project, Bemberg.