This week, Gilly Smith talks to food writer and broadcaster, Pete Brown about his new book 'Pie Fidelity', and finds an unusually patriotic take on British food.

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This week, Gilly Smith learns how to cook like Zoe Adjonyoh whose journey through food into her own Ghanaian heritage has led to a new movement in West African cuisine. Here she cooks akara fritters, a vegetarian feast of black eyed beans with salsa.

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This week, Gilly Smith goes way off the beaten track in Thailand with Thai-born food writer, Kay Plunkett-Hogge in search of the food of Kay's childhood in the roadside cafes and markets of Bangkok, Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai.

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This week, Gilly Smith meets Steven Lamb of River Cottage, the winner of this year’s Jane Grigson Trust award for new food writer, Dan Saladino, and finds out how to be a nomadic chef. Plus the woman who left a life of high finance to make her Susana and Daughters kefir, the wine producer who’s winning awards for leaving the least impact on the planet, and Sophie from the food team with 25 seconds on Marmite.

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This week, Gilly Smith is at Spitalfields’ super cool Thai restaurant, Som Saa learning how to make the popular papaya salad, Som Tam with chef and owner Andy Oliver. Andy tells her how he learned to cook with Thai food hero, David Thompson at his legendary Thai restaurant Nahm, and what he thinks now about the twitter storm last year which resulted in him sacking one of his own chefs for a racist slur.

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This week, Gilly Smith is celebrating all things Irish for St Patrick’s Day with the doyenne of Irish slow food and artisanal produce, Darina Allen of the Ballymaloe Cookery School.

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This week, Gilly Smith is on a wild beach off Lyme Regis with food writer and River Cottage chef, Gill Meller, who’s showing her how to cook a simple lunch of fresh mackerel over an open fire.

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In the March bumper episode of the monthly magazine-style podcast, Gilly Smith meets; delicious. magazine columnist Debora Robertson who tells us how to feed our dogs, TV chef James Martin who tells us about his Great British adventure and she tunnels under the streets of London to find the world’s first sustainable farm. Food historian Angela Clutton gives us the 'who knew' on vinegar and, as Brexit looms, we hear from an Iranian refugee on how food humanises the people behind the headlines. 

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In this week's special delicious. podcast, sponsored by Hope & Glory Tea, Gilly Smith meets the six teams of catering students who have made the finals of Zest Quest Asia. The competition, founded by Cyrus Todiwala – chef patron/owner of Café Spice Namaste & Mr Todiwala’s Kitchen – and his wife Pervin, is designed to encourage the next generation of chefs to bring excellence to Asian cuisine. 

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This week, Gilly Smith meets author, Caroline Eden, whose book The Black Sea has received high praise across the food world, only last week winning her a special commendation at the prestigious Andre Simon Awards – and it was delicious deputy editor, Susan Low’s favourite book of last year. You can hear Gilly and Susan discuss their favourite books of 2108 here

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