Following a slight career detour singing in a successful pop band, Donal Skehan realised food was his true calling and started his popular blog “The Good Mood Food Blog” which chronicled quick cooking dishes and cheap meals. This soon led to cookbooks, tv appearances, a youtube channel and more. Celebrating honest, hearty home cooked food Donal has established himself as a trusted cook and food writer with a loyal global following. We talk to Donal about how his pop career became a food one and much more!

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Sandor Ellix Katz is an American food writer and fermentation revivalist. His books Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyse a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, the New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene.” We spoke to Sandor about his life in a commune, what he's discovered recently and much more!

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Tim Anderson is a chef, food writer, and MasterChef champion. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Tim studied Japanese food culture at university and lived in Japan for two years. After moving to London, he won MasterChef in 2011 and his epic Japanese soul-food restaurant, Nanban, opened in 2015 in Brixton. We talk to Tim about his new book Tokyo Stories and seemingly endless food offerings of Tokyo on every level...

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Ep5 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.

Recorded live at the V&A museum, in the last episode of the series, we chatted to three artists from the Eating section of the exhibition: Karen Guthrie, Jasleen Kaur and Michael Rakowitz, all who are challenging the way we think about eating and especially to think about cooking and eating as creative acts.

Visit the exhibition: Listeners can get 40% off tickets to the exhibition using promo code: FOOD40  @vamuseum 

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More information on the artists: 

Karen Guthrie - House of Ferment https://www.somewhere.org.uk/

Jasleen Kaur - The Five Ks and Tala Curry Measure http://jasleenkaur.co.uk/

Michael Rakowitz - Spoils, Enemy Kitchen -  http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/ 

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Ep4 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.

Recorded live at the V&A museum, in this episode we chatted to artist Kathrin Böhm of Company Drinks about her part in the trading section of the exhibition. Company Drinks is a community enterprise in Barking & Dagenham in East London that brings people together to pick, process and produce drinks. 

Visit the exhibition Listeners can get 40% off tickets to the exhibition using promo code: FOOD40 @vamuseum 

Company Drinks: @goingpickingKathrin Böhm: @k_athrinbohm

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Ep3 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.

Recorded live at the V&A museum, in this episode we chatted to California-based artists Fallen Fruit - David Burns and Austin Young - about their part in the farming section of the exhibition. David and Austin make public art which explores the role of fruit in creating shared culture. By foraging depictions of fruit from the V&A's collection, they have created two unique installations for the exhibition - beautiful wallpaper which draws on the horticultural history of the site and a series of fruit maps which plot the locations of fruit trees growing in public space in London.

Visit the exhibition Listeners can get 40% off tickets to the exhibition using promo code: FOOD40 @vamuseum 

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Ep2 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate.

In the grand setting of the V&A museum we chatted to artist Fernando Laposse about his part in the compost section of the exhibition - Totomoxtle, a beautiful new decorative veneer material made with the colourful husks of heirloom Mexican corn. We talked everything from seed banks to saying yes when you mean no, from biodiversity and the future of growing, to rural farmers on facebook. 

Visit the exhibition https://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson

  Listeners can get 40% off tickets to the exhibition using promo code: FOOD40  

@fernandolaposse @vamuseum

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In series 5 of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're meeting producers, growers and makers who supply some of our essentials. This week we're talking all things fruit and veg!

Self-confessed veg nerd, Guy Singh-Watson has over the last 30 years taken Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme delivering to around 50,000 customers a week. This episode is a deep dive into the trials and tribulations of producing organic food, modern farming and what it's like to deal with selling fruit and veg to supermarkets.

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This week we're talking to Ben Mackinnon of E5 Bakehouse all about bread, flour and ancient grains as part of our Makers, Growers and Producers season.

Ben set up E5 Bakehouse in 2011, initially baking sourdough in the pizza oven of a local restaurant in the mornings before they opened. We talk to Ben about his mission to revive the lost art of baking using traditional techniques, natural ingredients and forgotten flours. We learn about their famous sourdough and hear about how they are developing an agroforestry arable farm in Suffolk with a focus on making the transition to a diversified farming system, and localised supply chain for bread.

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In May, we collaborated with writer Rosie Sykes and historian Polly Russell to create a special dinner for the opening of the Eat Cambridge Food Festival. The evening included a food history chat by Polly Russell and a delicious feast cooked by Itamar, Sarit and Rosie inspired by an extraordinary royal medieval manuscript. In this episode we hear Polly tells us about the magnificent scroll, The Forme of Cury, which inspired the epic feast and all the best things about a medieval banquet.

 

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