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Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
Noma’s next nightlife project in Copenhagen
A visit to Copenhagen to hear about an ambitious nightlife project by a Noma restaurant co-founder, we check out a supper club in Lisbon with set discussion themes and speak to chef, broadcaster and…
Jancis Robinson on how the wine industry is changing
We drink in the latest on the international bar and beverage industry as we revisit this year’s Bar Convent Berlin. Also on the show: Jancis Robinson, co-author of The World Atlas of Wine, gives…
Chatting with Rachel Khoo and Daniel Patterson
We meet the founders of the first supper club in Moscow and find out about the Japanese sake industry’s efforts to increase exports. We also speak to two chefs and authors: Rachel Khoo –…
Moscow’s organic food revolution
We speak to Olivier Dupon, who has written a book about the most talented pastry chefs around the world, head to Moscow where an organic food revolution is taking place and hear what Colombians…
Canine cafés and Tsukiji Fish market
We hear the latest on the controversy surrounding the possible move of the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, sample a café in London that caters for canines and head to the town of Bra…
A restaurant for Syrian exies
We meet one of world’s top chefs Elena Arzak of San Sebastián’s Arzak restaurant, visit a restaurant in Istanbul that is working as an embassy for Syrian exiles in the city and visit central…
A global food party
We celebrate our 100th episode by hopping from country to country to see what different places are cooking up to get a party going, from moon cakes in Hong Kong, to Mexican Mezcal, and…
Kitchenware dreams
We head to Tokyo’s Kappabashi district – a dream destination for kitchenware enthusiasts, meet one of London’s best rising chefs Eran Tibi who is about to launch a new restaurant and talk to some…
Vending machines to the rescue
How a “new” ingredient in Australia has been known by the indigenous people for generations, we head to Berlin to see how a gourmet vending machine may rescue many dinner parties caught short and…
Lessons from Jojo Tulloh
We visit the fourth annual Lambstock festival in Virginia, hear some of the lessons London’s city farmers have learned from Jojo Tulloh, author of The Modern Peasant and visit one of the oldest tabernas…
