Desert Island Dishes

Annoushka's mother had a business selling fish to all the top restaurants in London and it was this business that accidentally set Annoushka onto the path to become one of the most successful jewellers in the UK. Annoushka does not believe she's a good cook but you really wouldn't know that from her delicious choices of dishes. Annoushka Ducas MBE is a jewellery designer, creative director and entrepreneur who founded British jewellery companies Links of London and Annoushka Jewellery. After studying in Paris in the 1980s, Annoushka embarked on the first of many extensive world travels, stopping to spend time in Hong Kong, where she first began to design jewellery. In 1990, together with her husband, she founded Links of London – a global luxury jewellery brand. In 2009, she went on to launch the brand Annoushka Jewellery. Annoushka enjoys a star-studded fan base that includes the likes of Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez and Kate Middleton. In 2012, Annoushka was awarded an (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her ser

Jessie is a French biochemist, bestselling author, and founder of the Glucose Goddess movement.  She's helped millions of people improve their health by making cutting-edge science accessible. Her whole philosophy is one that focuses on the idea of adding things to your life and not taking them away. She’s very clear that she doesn’t advocate a certain type of diet, her whole focus is on the science and that actually the biggest benefit can be found in changing the order in which we eat.  Her book, the Glucose Revolution, is a #1 international bestseller and has been translated into 40 languages. She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from King's College London and a master's degree in biochemistry from Georgetown University.Jessie has said she didn’t set out to change the world, her whole story is a very personal one based on her own journey with her mental health following a life-changing accident she had at the age of 19 Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for supporting us and helping us to brin

Sophie Ellis-Bexter is a double platinum selling artist.   She started out as the lead singer of indie band the audience at the age of 17. She shot to fame with her single with Groovejet which earned her her first number 1.   Since then she’s gone on to release 6 studio and 2 compilation albums, written a memoir, went on Strictly come dancing, appeared in Game of Thrones, launched her own podcast, wrote a cookbook with her husband and Kept everyone dancing during lockdown with weekly discos streamed live from her kitchen.   Shes acheieved all this and much more whilst also being the mother of 5 boys. In 2021 she did a 24 hour kitchen disco danceathon with raised over a million pounds for Children in Need.   I am thrilled to have the undisputed queen of lockdown with us today, thank you so much for listening. To enter the brilliant competition we have with The Garden Trading Company, where you can win £250 to spend on their site, simply click here to enter here. Good Luck! Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds B

Shelina describes herself as a cook, an author and restaurateur. She grew up in Southampton with her Mauritian parents and siblings. It was only in 2011 that she decided to follow her heart and gave up a career in diversity and equality to enter the MasterChef competition. Over 6.5 million viewers watched Shelina triumph in the MasterChef final: with her instinctive spicing and intense flavours, she brought Mauritian food to TV for the first time, inspiring legions of home cooks to try out her recipes at home. Since winning the title, she has written two cookbooks, is a regular on TV and Radio and has opened her own restaurant serving Mauritian food in her home town of Southampton. Shelina has said - “It’s true what they say – ‘winning MasterChef can change your life’. Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for supporting us and helping us to bring the show to you each week. Don't forget to come and find us on Instagram @desertislanddishes and check out the website www.desertislanddishes.co Thank you so

Dan is an award winning wine writer, magazine editor and restaurateur He is the Co founder of Noble Rot named for the fungus that shrivels and sweeten grapes which began life as a cult food, wine and popular culture magazine. The magazine created a space that is as informative as it is witty and serves up wine with alongside sides of life and culture. The brand has since expanded to two award winning restaurants  and a wine shop Shrine to the Vine. Dan has won numerous awards for his writing about wine and food and has written for the Financial Times, The Spectator and Melody Maker. Before Noble Rot Dan was previously managing director of Island Records. He was the one who found and signed Coldplay who then went on to sell 5 million copies of their debut album. Find us on instagram @desertislanddishes and visit the website www.desertislanddishes.co Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for helping us to bring this with you each week. And thank you very to you for listening! See you next week, Margie Ho

Shivi has been dubbed by The Guardian as the “Caribbean Food Supremo”, and it has been said she is the "Queen of Contemporary Caribbean Cooking". She is a food writer, cookbook author, TV chef and presenter. She was born in Trinidad but was brought up between there, New York, the English countryside and London. This diverse upbringing has really influenced her style of cooking. She says her culinary mission is to twist classic Caribbean dishes and make them into her own vibrant, fresh and easy to make recipes.  She’s had a fascinating career - Starting out as singer / songwriter – training as a lawyer before going on Masterchef and turning her dream of working in food into a reality. She’s now written three cookbooks, and can regularly be found cooking on TV. She is a regular guest on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and has previously hosted the show as well as a regular on ITV’s This Morning.   She has just released her third cookbook, Cook Clever.  Do hope you enjoy today's episode. Do rate, review and subscribe t

Jesse, known online as ADIP has taken the food world by storm with his cinematic cooking videos which have been wracking up millions of views. Despite only starting his social media last year he has already amassed several hundreds of thousands of avid fans and followers.  Jesse grew up in LA combining working in a professional kitchen with life as a sponsored skateboarder. He then came to the UK and spent a very successful decade working as a fashion photographer and director, shooting campaigns for the likes of Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham.   But it was always food that was his true passion. Inspired by the people he has cooked for and alongside over the years, his food is in his own words, “fresh, fast and a bit filthy, with a laid-back American vibe - perfect for sharing”. His videos too, have echoes of his former life on a skateboard. He now works as a chef alongside Jackson Boxer at his restaurant and In addition he has his own very successful series supperclubs at Carousel London, so it truly is

Singer and songwriter Jack Savoretti is described in pretty much every interview I came across as both extremely talented and also very charming perhaps it is this combination that has led to Jack’s stellar career. He tells us of his idyllic childhood Summers spent in the Italian Riviera, why he's grateful that his success didn't happen overnight and reveals a surprising yet delicious final desert island dish. Jack's one of the most successful singer / songwriters in the UK and has collaborated with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Bob Dylan and Nile Rogers and performed to a sold out Wembley Arena. He had an international upbringing, with an Italian father and a German-Polish mother, moving from London to Switzerland, and spending idyllic childhood summers in Portofino, Italy, where his father’s family come from.   After falling in love with music at the age of 15 it was a somewhat slow-burning rise to fame for Jack as a musician. He toured the UK for several years, quietly growing his fanbase and it was his si

Dawn O'Porter is an author, broadcaster, writer, podcaster and journalist.  Having trained at drama school, Dawn become a TV presenter, rising to fame with her critically acclaimed BBC documentary Super Slim Me. Many more TV shows followed and in 2013 began a new passion for Dawn as she began writing more seriously and started a new chapter of her career. She released her first novel which got shortlisted for the Waterstone’s children book prize, more books followed - she’s now written 7 and she has continued to have huge writing success as a Sunday Times Bestseller.    Dawn lives in Los Angeles with her movie star husband, two young sons and her dog Potato. Dawn has said  “I love food. I realise that’s a basic statement and might not sound like it warrants a whole load of page-time but for me it does. Food is the great passion and pleasure of my life. Reading cookbooks, shopping for ingredients, spending hours in the kitchen, making it, serving it and then eating it. Brilliant” If you enjoy the podcast,

Julius Roberts is a first generation millennial farmer and rising star of the food scene.  In 2016 he gave up working at the acclaimed restaurant Noble Rot in London - and swapped the rat race for an idyllic life of pigs, goats and chickens instead. His first foray into farming was a small-holding in rural Suffolk and then last year he moved with his family to a farm in Dorset.  His charm and humble approach to life on the farm have seen him amass an army of followers online as he shares the trials and tribulations of farm life alongside his menagerie of animals. Julius describes himself as a cook, farmer and gardener on a journey to self-sufficiency. Julius says his his aim is simple – "to educate his audience on topics including animal welfare and seasonal cooking". This was a lovely episode to record and I do hope you enjoy listening whether for the first time or again. Not long to go until our new season begins! See you soon, Margie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello! We are very nearly back with our new season! Currently recording the next season as we speak so in anticipation of our imminent return I thought it would be fun to release a few golden oldies from the archives for you to enjoy. This week is with the wonderful Dolly Alderton. If you've ever enjoyed an episode of Desert Island Dishes and you're glad we are returning, can I ask you to share it with your friends? This podcast has grown in the way it has all through word of mouth and I'm so grateful to you all! Please do keep sharing and helping to spread the word as it really does make a difference. If you've not heard this episode before I hope you enjoy and if you have, I hope a trip down memory lane will be be a lovely way to start the week. @desertislanddishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello lovely listeners! We are back! Well, nearly back! Currently recording the next season as we speak so in anticipation of our imminent return I thought it would be fun to release a few golden oldies from the archives for you to enjoy. Thank you for sticking with me during my quiet season, but promise we are back for good and really really excited for all that’s in store for Desert Island Dishes. You are a big reason for the success of this podcast and every time you share it on social media or with your email list or tell your friends about it, it helps it to grow and helps me to keep brining it to you. So thank you thank you! And I thought it would be appropriate to kick off with one of our most popular episodes to date… with the one and only Stanley Tucci, still pinching myself really that I got to go to his house and sit in his amazing artists studio at the bottom of his garden and talk all things food with him. He is everything you imagine he would be. Enjoy! @desertislanddishes Hosted on Ac

My guest today is Sally Clarke Sally has been described as the unsung hero of British food, and her cooking a masterclass in simplicity. She was just 14 when she envisaged the restaurant that she would one day open and this year Clarkes celebrates it’s 37th year.   Despite the prevailing fad for Nouvelle Cuisine at the time she opened in December 1984 , she never waivered in her mission to showcase fresh and seasonal ingredients, cooked simply and in her trademark unpretentious style. It’s no wonder her restaurant was Lucian Freud’s favourite haunt     In the 25th year of being in business, she was awarded an MBE in the queens birthday honours list for services to hospitality – an award she modestly states she shares with everyone involved in the running of Clarkes. Alongside the restaurant, she runs a booming bakery business which has over 120 wholesale customers, and sees them making over 60,000 mince pies during the run up to Christmas. . If you’ve ever tucked into a pain au chocolage on the Eurostar, cha

My guest today is Ravneet Gill Ravneet is fast becoming one of the best known pastry chefs of her generation. After completing a psychology degree, she studied at Le Cordon Bleu before working her way up the ranks in different pastry sections at some of the best restaurants in London - most notably, St. John, Llewelyn's, and Wild by Tart.   Ravneet published her first cookbook - in April 2020 entitled 'The Pastry Chef's Guide: The Secret to successful baking every time' as a handbook to dispel the fear around baking. And since then it looks as though her feet have barely touched the ground.   She joined both the Telegraph and Guardian Feast as their new baking columnist and starred as a judge on Channel 4’s Junior Bake Off alongside Liam Charles and host Harry Hill. A winner at the 2021 GQ Food & Drink Awards, this year she also launched The Damson Jelly Academy online cookery school   In 2018 she set up an organisation called Countertalk; a platform designed to help connect chefs, provide education and

 My guest today is Daphne Oz. Daphne is an Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times best selling author, chef, and entrepreneur focused on the worlds of food, beauty, wellness, fashion and media. She also happens to be the mother of four children proving that you can have a very successful career and be a present mother.     Daphne is the eldest daughter of the one and only Doctor Oz – possibly the most famous Doctor in America. But Daphne is a veteran TV personality herself, she spent six seasons as co-host of hit TV series "The Chew," has been a judge on Junior Masterchef and now as one of the co hosts of the Dish on Oz (a weekly series on The Dr. Oz Show), Daphne brings the latest in food news, family-friendly recipes and expert cooking tricks.   After university, Daphne received her chef's degree from the Natural Gourmet Institute and is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.    When asked what cooking means to her, Daphne has said: New memories, freedom and fun. And “At the en

My guest today is Ella Risbridger Author, writer and cook , in her own words: sometimes a journalist and other things too Described by The Times as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation", Her debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), was published by Bloomsbury in January 2019 and won praise from Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater and Diana Henry.   A cookbook which starts with Ella trying to take her own life. A cookbook about mental health, cookbook about anxiety, a cookbook about life being difficult and complicated and lots of fun and full of brilliant people and brilliant things and terrible things and all of this happening at the same time It’s about living in london, in your twenties, with an anxiety disorder and being in love and recipes The one and only Nigella has said: "One of the things that makes Midnight Chicken such a very good book is how hard it is to say exactly what it is. Yes, to be sure, it's a cookbook, but it is also a manual for living and a declara

My guest today is Giles Coren Giles is a food writer and TV presenter.   He has been a restaurant critic and columnist for the Times newspaper for the last 17 years.  He has been Described as Britains Most Powerful Food Critic.   His career has been rich and illustrious. He has written books, presented TV series, written columns and hosted radio shows.   Most recently alongside chef Monica Galetti he is the presenter of Amazing Hotels Life Beyond the Lobby - a BBC series that sees him travel the globe visiting some of the most amazing hotels and rolling up his sleeves to work alongside their staff.   When asked which he prefers, writing or being on telly? He said “I hate them both and if I had money I wouldn’t do either” Hope you enjoy! Thank you for listening. If you have been enjoying listening and havent yet left a review, then please do! It only takes a moment and really does make a big difference. -- Thank you to our season sponsor Cooks Matches. Find them on Instagram @cooksmatches and head to thei

Hello! We are back with a brand new season! I missed you all! My guest today is Pierre Koffman. Often described as one of the greatest chefs of all time. A living legend. He has been a chef for over 50 years. His list of achievements are basically too long to mention. Born in the South West of France in 1948 he didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming a chef and yet he has become the “chef of chefs, the chef all other chefs look up to”. Combining a rustic gutsiness with haute cuisine, Pierre Koffmann knows how to combine tastes and flavours like no one else. He cooks the kind of food he likes to eat; the food of the French countryside and of his grandparent’s farmhouse kitchen in rural Gascony. He is one of only a handful of chefs to have achieved three Michelin stars.   While Pierre is renowned for his cooking expertise, after mastering his skills in the kitchen for 50 years, he is also known for his mentoring and championing of new talent in the industry.    Pierre has famously said: "There is no secret, it’

Hello! We are back with another BONUS episode for you! My guest today is Surprise! We are back with another BONUS episode for you! My guest today is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.  Hugh is a chef, broadcaster, food writer and campaigner.  The nation first got to know Hugh in 1997 with his TV show “A Cook on the Wild Side” in which he ate roadkill and all that the countryside’s hedgerows had to offer. And then a year later through his River Cottage series and books filmed at the river cottage estate on the Devon / Dorset border.  In fact he’s now done more than 20 cookery shows and he’s also tackled powerful issues in his documentaries like obesity, the illegal wildlife trade, fishing and the war on plastic. He has an uncompromising commitment to seasonal and ethically produced food and his concern for the environment has inspired a vast and loyal fanbase.  You may even have whipped up something delicious based on one of his recipe books as he is a multi award winning writer and the Author of numerous best

Surprise! We are back with another BONUS episode for you! My guest today is Tom Gozney. Tom is an entrepreneur and designer, he is the founder of Gozney. Gozney for those who don’t know, make incredible outdoor ovens and the business really is taking the world by storm. Tom started out designing a brick pizza oven for his back garden in 2008, and by 2014 was supplying professional ovens to some of the UK’s leading restaurants including Chewton Glen, River Cottage and pizza chain Franco Manca. But his domestic ovens have also collected a loyal following of very famous fans including Tom Aikens, Paul Hollywood, the founder of Instagram, Mike Krieger, and Richard Branson – who flew Tom out to his personal island: Necker Island to build one.   Tom had in his own words, a “colourful youth” and might not necessarily be the stereotypical entrepreneur. He moved from school to school after being expelled and was constantly told he would amount to nothing. After battling with alcohol and drug addiction, he used his