Good Food

Join host Samuel Goldsmith every Tuesday as he chats with cooks, chefs, and food lovers. In each episode, Samuel dives into a sparkling conversation about the guest's life, their journey in the food and drink world, and, of course, their passion for food. Expect plenty of laughs, life lessons, and unforgettable stories from the people behind the plates. The fun doesn't stop there! Tune in for sections like My Favourite Dish, where the guest discusses their favourite dishes and how they've made them their own, Cookery Confessions, where guests share their funniest kitchen mishaps and culinary secrets, and Quick Fire Questions, a rapid round of surprises that reveal more about their tastes and quirks.  Plus, on Thursdays, get a taste of new recipes in our bonus episodes—easy-to-follow cook-alongs to bring the flavours of the conversation to your kitchen.  Do scroll back in the feed to our archive including special episodes hosted by Tom Kerridge, Orlando Murrin and Mallika Basu. The Good Food podcast has featured guests such as: Jamie Oliver, Nadiya Hussain, Michel Roux, Ainsley Harriot, Gennaro Contaldo, Claire Richards, Fred Sirieix, Big Zuu, Tess Daly, Liz Bonnin, Becky Excell, Professor Tim Spector, Rukmini Iyer, Riyadh Khalaf, John Whaite, Crystelle Pereira, Paul Ainsworth, The Hairy Bikers, Marcus Wareing, Sabrina Ghayour, Jane Dunn and Atul Kochhar.  Discussing topics such as BBQ, fermenting, brunch, spices, Eurovision, Caribbean flavours, sustainability, chocolate, Spanish cuisine, vegan cooking, Bake Off, airfryers, health, wellbeing, nutrition, slow cookers, cocktails, pancakes, pressure cookers, seasonal food and cocktails.

  1. 9 hr ago

    Jeremy Lee on the 30 year cookbook, 100 years of Quo Vadis and Scottish fare

    Jeremy Lee: 30 Years in the Making Chef Jeremy Lee has spent four decades in professional kitchens and almost as long writing his first cookbook. In this episode, recorded at Quo Vadis in the Soho institution's 100th year, he joins host Samuel Goldsmith to talk about Cooking, the book that lay fallow for 30 years, and Kitchening, the seasonal follow-up he wrote in a single January locked away in a Dorset farmhouse. Jeremy takes us from a childhood in the northeast of Scotland (a mother who pored over Elizabeth David, a father who made the butcher push a whole sirloin through the mincer) to an apprenticeship in the barren British food landscape of the late '70s, when the aubergine was still exciting and a privately educated kid in a kitchen was an anathema. He explains why "kitchening" is a genuine Old English word, why seasonal cooking is not a trend, and why restaurant food got lighter, smaller and better. Along the way: medlars versus Pink Lady apples, the case for domesticating British rabbit, a beef à la mode so over-set you could have played football with it in front of Terence Conran, and receiving an MBE from Princess Anne on what turned out to be a final outing with his sister. In this episode: • Why Cooking took 30 years, and Kitchening took one month • Good bread, good butter, good eggs: the only advice a new cook needs • What Alastair Little, Rowley Leigh and Simon Hopkinson changed forever • Quince gluts, mast years, and why the seasons teach you to expect nothing • Quick-fire round: one cuisine forever, the worst waste of money, and the fictional character he'd have dinner with Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  2. 8 Sept

    Poppy O'Toole on Batch Cooking, MSG and her own child hating potatoes

    Poppy O'Toole on batch cooking, secret MSG and putting caviar on chicken wings Poppy O'Toole is back for a rare second appearance and this time she's brought a new baby, a new book and a confession about the little pot of MSG living next to her salt and pepper. We get into her Absolutely Delicious Batch Cookbook and why most batch cooking books get it wrong (nobody wants to lose an entire Sunday), the goose fat roast potato trick that lets you freeze them par-boiled and cook straight from frozen, and why every recipe is tested to go in the oven without defrosting. Then it gets less sensible. Poppy upgrades her all-time favourite dish from buffalo wings to buffalo wings with a bump of caviar, explains the free-caviar economics of the Fortnum's Awards, and admits her daughter has rejected mashed potato entirely, but will happily lick salt off a roast potato and demand her own cup of decaf tea. Neither of us is qualified to give parenting advice. We give some anyway. Plus: the mystery bags in her freezer, why she plays down her own expertise on camera and wants to stop, meeting Denise Welch as a life goal, and a quick-fire round she was convinced she'd fluffed. In this episode: • 00:00 — Welcome back (and how she compares to Rick Stein) • 03:32 — The batch cookbook, and why most batch cooking is too much work • 10:26 — The goose fat roast potato freezer trick • 15:19 — The secret pot of MSG • 16:48 — Baby hates mash: feeding a baby tea, salt and dog hair • 20:20 — Favourite dish: chicken wings with a bump of caviar • 26:08 — Confessions: bubblegum ice cream and a very bad undercut • 28:27 — The Grumble, her imaginary all-potato pub • 32:17 — The misconception she wants to fix • 35:11 — Guilty pleasure: tinned fish • 37:29 — Quick fire • 41:15 — What good food means Poppy's Absolutely Delicious Batch Cookbook is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Poppy O'Toole on Batch Cooking, MSG and her own child hating potatoes

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Join host Samuel Goldsmith every Tuesday as he chats with cooks, chefs, and food lovers. In each episode, Samuel dives into a sparkling conversation about the guest's life, their journey in the food and drink world, and, of course, their passion for food. Expect plenty of laughs, life lessons, and unforgettable stories from the people behind the plates. The fun doesn't stop there! Tune in for sections like My Favourite Dish, where the guest discusses their favourite dishes and how they've made them their own, Cookery Confessions, where guests share their funniest kitchen mishaps and culinary secrets, and Quick Fire Questions, a rapid round of surprises that reveal more about their tastes and quirks.  Plus, on Thursdays, get a taste of new recipes in our bonus episodes—easy-to-follow cook-alongs to bring the flavours of the conversation to your kitchen.  Do scroll back in the feed to our archive including special episodes hosted by Tom Kerridge, Orlando Murrin and Mallika Basu. The Good Food podcast has featured guests such as: Jamie Oliver, Nadiya Hussain, Michel Roux, Ainsley Harriot, Gennaro Contaldo, Claire Richards, Fred Sirieix, Big Zuu, Tess Daly, Liz Bonnin, Becky Excell, Professor Tim Spector, Rukmini Iyer, Riyadh Khalaf, John Whaite, Crystelle Pereira, Paul Ainsworth, The Hairy Bikers, Marcus Wareing, Sabrina Ghayour, Jane Dunn and Atul Kochhar.  Discussing topics such as BBQ, fermenting, brunch, spices, Eurovision, Caribbean flavours, sustainability, chocolate, Spanish cuisine, vegan cooking, Bake Off, airfryers, health, wellbeing, nutrition, slow cookers, cocktails, pancakes, pressure cookers, seasonal food and cocktails.

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