Desert Island Dishes

My guest today is Bettina Campolucci Bordi Bettina is a qualified vegan raw chef having trained at the Matthew Kenny Culinary Institute over in Los Angeles. She was born with a passion for food and cooking she says has remained a constant pleasure in her life. Brought up by a Norwegian father and a Danish-Bulgarian mother Bettina’s food is inspired by the countries she’s lived in. She’s worked in the catering industry for over a decade, has a wildly popular blog filled with fast, fresh, simple, vegan recipes, has amassed an army of followers and she’s just released her very first cook book Happy Food. Ultimately Bettina’s philosophy on food is simple…she believes that food is meant to make you happy. Desert island dish: Large bowl of Asian noodle soup with hearty broth and lots of noodles or rice Vegan salted caramel ice cream Luxury item: notebook and pen and /or a phone Cookbook: Any book by Rene Voltaire Find me on Instagram @madebymargie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform

My guest today is Naomi Smart Niomi is a lifestyle blogger and Youtube sensation who aims to help her audience to look, live and feel better. Niomi has garnered a very impressive audience of more than 1.7 million followers on her YouTube channel and 1.8 million followers on her Instagram. She inspired millions of youtube videos with her popular video series ‘What I Eat In A Day’ which in turn inspired Niomi to write her own recipe book ‘Eat Smart’, which was released in September 2016 and which is packed full of plant-based recipes. Desert island dish: Starter: chocolate and beetroot cake Main: Mauritian red curry Luxury item: a puppy Best cookbook: the Happy Pear cookbook Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and do come and say on Instagram @madebymargie And most importantly, thank you for listening! Margie x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Jo Elvin Jo was the Editor of Glamour of Magazine for 17 years. With Jo at the helm, Glamour sold more copies in its sector than any other in Europe. Jo has recently become the editor of the Mail on Sunday’s You magazine. Throughout her career, Jo has won many awards including being voted one of the 100 most powerful women in Britain and Jo has been awarded ‘Editor of the Year’ no less than five times by the British Society of Magazine Editors She is without a doubt one of the most respected editors in the industry today. Having grown up in Australia, she moved to London in the early 90s and we are very glad she did. Desert island dish: Main course: Hamburger with several kind of cheese with a side of sausages Salted caramel truffles Pudding: Ultimate rice pudding Luxury item: space food sticks Don’t forget to come and find me on Instagram. I’m @madebymargie where I share recipes, more desert island dishes inspired food and I can often be found waffling on Instagram stories and I’d l

My guest today is Lucy Williams Lucy is one of the UK’s most successful bloggers. She is a fashion journalist turned style blogger, writer and stylist. She lives in London but travels the world and shares her adventures through her blog Fashion me now. Lucy started out as a fashion assistant at places such as Sheerluxe.com and Instyle Magazine, before working as a assistant fashion editor for Stylus before she took the leap to go freelance and has now amassed over 324,000 followers on instagram alone. Which is just amazing! Desert island dish: Starter: Arancini balls with truffle, smoked salmon blinis Lasagne – classic with really good garlic bread and salad Fish lasagne – her mum’s version. Fish pie mix with lots of dill, layered with lots of cheese and pasta. With loads of garlic bread Pudding: really good gelato with treacle tart Luxury item: kindle full of books and some suncream Don’t forget to go to the website www.desertislanddishes.co for the full list of episodes plus the recipes I’ve created

My guest today is Skye McAlpine Skye is a Venice based food writer, blogger and photographer. She is the author of the successful blog “From my Dining table” and has written for many of the big named publications like The Sunday Times, vanity fair and The Guardian. She spends most of her time in Venice, where she writes, teaches cookery workshops and practices her photography. She has called Venice home since early childhood and with her debut book, “A table in Venice”, she provides over 100 recipes and brings to life the food of Venice in the most romantic, intriguing and just plain wonderful way. Skye has said: As is the way for those who love to eat, my happiest childhood memories are centred on food. Little has changed for me on that front as I;ve grown older. I remain the kind of person who rememebers life through what they ate and how it was cooked. Come and find me on Instagram @madebymargie and head to www.desertislandishes.co for lots of recipes and more details on the full list of episodes. Th

My guest today is Clemmie Hooper Otherwise known as Mother of Daughters, Clemmie is the brains behind the extremely popular blog Gas and Air. She is a trained NHS midwife and her first book, “How to grow a baby and push it out” was unbelievably successful with 3 reprints before it was even published. With it Clemmie has helped thousands of women around the world. She has just released her 2nd book – A journal of how to grow a baby. She is the mother of 4 daughters and she’s paving the way and flying the flag for a more honest approach to how parenthood is portrayed online. I do a lot of cooking for new and expectant parents and my weeks are filled with filling their fridges and freezers with delicious things so that they don’t have to think about cooking. As time is in short supply! So I was really excited to speak to this weeks guests about how she juggles being the mother of four with a busy career and lots of exciting things going on work wise and at home. I love speaking to people from the world of

My guest today is Tommy Banks Tommy is a Michelin-starred chef and Great British Menu champion. He is the head chef at his family restaurant – the black swan, in 0ldstead North Yorkshire. He started cooking at the age of 17 and at just 24 he became the youngest chef in Britain at the time to win a Michelin star. Last year Tommy's restaurant The Black Swan was voted #1 Restaurant in the World by Tripadvisor Traveller's Choice Award, the first time since the award launched that a UK restaurant has won. Tommy has just released his first cookbook, entitled Roots, which is they say, perfect for “foodies, foragers and cookbook collectors”. Desert island dish:Really good rib of beef, hollandaise sauce with blue cheese in it –Pudding: lemon tart Luxury item: his dog Penelope Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review, and tell your friends about Desert Island Dishes to spread the word! Thank you for listening x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Tim Anderson. Tim, at the age of just 26 was the youngest ever winner of Masterchef. Since winning back in 2011, Tim has carved out a very impressive career in food working as a chef, a consultant and a food writer. He is, much to my enormous envy and admiration a staple of the Radio 4 food panel show The Kitchen Cabinet. Tim has said his proudest career moment has to be the launch of his first cookery book Nanban: Japanese Soul Food and the opening of his acclaimed restaurant of the same name, in the heart of Brixton. During his time on Masterchef, the judges declared that Tim gave them the ‘best culinary explosion” they had ever seen on the show. Desert Island Dish: Ploughman’s with a good Ale. Pork pie, good onion chutney, many cheeses – sharp cheddar, brie, camembert, pears and lots of good bread. Luxury Item: His cat Baloo Thank you so much for listening. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review and importantly….tell your friends! Podcasts grow by word of mouth so if you are enjoyi

My guest today is Liz Earle MBE Liz is many things. She is a serial entrepreneur – having founded and built the hugely successful company Liz Earle Beauty. More than that she is an author – having written no less than 36 books to date. She is also a TV presenter and a wellness entrepreneur. She is the founder of Liz Earle Wellbeing - a wellness website, You Tube channel, podcast and quarterly magazine. Liz has said: “My working mantra has always been: build it slow to build it strong. Crawl, walk, then run to build a business that will stand the test of time. You must have an absolute passion for what you do, as running a business will consume your life.” Liz Earle is a true inspiration and I am a long time fan so it was amazing to sit down and chat to Liz about the foods that mean the most to her and to find out about how she’s got to where she is. I learnt a whole lot and I’m not kidding when I tell you I’ve been guzzling Kefir – if it makes me look half as good as Liz I will be over the moon. Desert Island

My guest today is Uyen Luu. Uyen Luu is a writer, cook, photographer and food stylist. She runs supper clubs and the UK’s only dedicated Vietnamese cooking classes in her Hackney studio. She writes and blogs about food, recipes and travel. She’s worked with a whole host of amazing people including Raymond Blanc and Jamie Oliver to name just a few. Her cookbook, My Vietnamese Kitchen was a roaring success and you know her food is incredible when there is a tweet from Ottolenghi declaring himself to be the luckiest person alive as he was about to eat her food. We talk everything from escaping to London from war torn Vietnam, the delights of school lunches and spam fritters. We talk about starting a business straight out of school and all the good things that can come from that business not necessarily succeeding. We discuss the changing face of Hackney, pioneering a food movement and the poet who makes the best crème caramel in Vietnam. I’ve been lucky enough to go to Uyen’s supperclubs and they are just amazi

My guest today is Thomasina Miers In 2005 Thomasina was the first winner of the revamped masterchef. She is now a Chef and food writer. She is also the owner of Wahaca, the seriously successful chain of Mexican restaurants. She has written 7 books to date, has a regular column in The Guardian, has opened another restaurant called DF MEXICO. In total she employs around 1500 people, she has three young children and is basically super -woman! Desert Island Dish Dauphinoise potatoes with steak, the café de paris butter from the restaurant 6 portland road and a bitter leaf with vinaigrette Pudding: loads of cheese and biscuits and chocolate Luxury item: olive oil Thank you for listening! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review. Thank you! Margie @madebymargie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Rosie Birkett Rosie is a food writer, food stylist and author. She has written 3 cookbooks and has been writing about chefs, restaurants, and food since 2008. Rosie’s recipes and food styling have appeared on the cover of BBC Good Food Magazine Olive Magazine, and been featured in The Telegraph, Red magazine , Grazia, In Style and Guardian Cook. Of her brilliant book : a lot on her plate – it was said by none other than Michel Roux Jr: “In a culinary world full of froths, foams and smears this is a book for those that love real food. It s a breath of fresh air and a feast for the eyes, full of mouth-watering recipes to excite the palate and take you to a gastronomic heaven. “ Rosie genuinely makes delicious food and her passion is clear. I love the breadth of her food, meaning she is equally as happy with a bacon sandwich as she is with the best spaghetti vongole Venice has to offer. There’s nothing faddy about her food, it’s just honest, delicious grub. That’s not to say it doesn’t look

My guest today is Simon Rimmer Simon is probably best known as the co-presenter of Channel 4's Sunday Brunch. Simon has presented a whole host of different TV programmes over the years, and he’s also written five very successful books and he regularly writes for food magazines. He is a chef/owner of nine restaurants in the north west of England and one in Dubai. Many people may not know that Simon has a degree in fashion and textile design and actually used to be a textile designer and ceramic decorator. *Desert Island Dish: Glass of Billecart-Salmon Rose to start before moving on to Kingfisher lager Indian banquet: To start: tandoori fish, tandoori lamb chops, plain naan, samosas, onion bhajis, Main course: chicken tikka masala, saag lamb, prawn madras, pilau rice, poppadoms, Pudding: Ras Malai Luxury item: limitless supply of books* Don’t forget to head to www.desertislanddishes.co for the recipe I’ve created inspired by Simon’s choice of Desert Island Dishes.And you can find me on Instagram @madebymargie

This week's guest is Ed Kimber You may well know him by his pen name: The Boy Who Bakes. Ed Won the first ever season of GBBO Way back in 2010. He has gone on to do all manner of exciting things since then. He’s written 3 cookery books, he’s worked in the pastry section at Le Manoir under Raymond Blanc and has created recipes for dozens of the countries best loved magazines. He’s taught cooking to the masses, he’s gone on various tv shows….he’s done the lot. He is a man of many talents, he’s a baker, a writer and it turns out, he is basically a candlestick maker. He also incidentally makes the best macarons in town. There is nothing Ed doesn’t know about baking and I learnt a lot in this episode. We find out about Japan’s baking scene which as it turns out is pretty happening and about Ed’d love of travelling and how he gets inspiration for all his cooking. We also discover what exactly happens when you win The Great British Bake Off and find out how you make it as a freelance baker and food writer. In thi

My guest today is Ben Ebbrell Ben is one quarter of the youtube cooking sensation that is sorted food. Sorted food are the world’s most influential social media cooking brand and have over 1.6 million YouTube subscribers and 11 million views a month. They have been dubbed the inbetweeners of food. Chef Ben is passionate about food and all the possibilities it offers. He is the trained chef of the group – having studied Culinary Arts Management at Birmingham University. Ben has cooked for the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gary Barlow…and even the Queen! Desert island dish: lobster mac and cheese *Luxury item: pack of cards* Hope you enjoy this one! And thank you so much for listening. Come and find me on instagram @madebymargie and for the recipes go to www.desertislanddishes.co x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Ben Branson Ben is the founder of Seedlip – Seedlip is a non-alcoholic spirit and it’s the first of its kind. Served in gorgeous clear bottles, with beautiful branding, with names such as Garden 108 and Spice 94, it has all the romance and allure of a gin. Except it is most definitely not gin. It’s beyond clever. Four years ago tee-totaller Ben started tinkering in his kitchen, buying a copper still and experimenting with herbal remedies. After hours of experimenting, Seedlip was born. The first 1,000 bottles sold out in just three weeks, the next 1,000 sold out within only three days and the next 1,000 in an incredible thirty minutes online. Pretty impressive stuff! Fast forwards to today and Seedlip’s success is the kind that most start ups can only dream of. They are stocked in Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges, high-end bars including at The Savoy and in over 100 Michelin-starred restaurants including The Ledbury, The Fat Duck and far too many to even mention. Drinks giant Diageo even

Margie’s guest this week is Rhiannon Lambert. Rhiannon is a Nutriionist with her own clinic on Harley Street. ,She imparts evidence-based health advice to a whole range of different clients – from young women to new mums and professional athletees. A popular face across social media, newspaper and on TV as she has consulted behind the scenes on the Masterchef series. She also works alongside doctors to demonstrate the influence nutrition can have on illness and recovery. So basically, she knows an awful lot about nutrition and having a good relationship with food to say the least. Her debut book Re-Nourish has just come out which is very exciting and is packed full of great looking dishes. Before all this Rhiannon won Classic FM’s Singer of the Year competition at the age of seventeen and went on to perform with Alfie Boe later that same year. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music. And somehow she still manages, amidst everything else she does, she still finds time to sing! So basically she’s a woman o

Margie’s guest today is Daisy Buchanan Daisy is quite simply a word wizard. She’s a writer, an author, and a journalist. Her writing covers everything from arts, entertainment, and women's issues. She contributes to a whole host of publications including Esquire, Grazia, the Guardian, Look magazine, Marie Claire and the telegraph to name literally just a few! Daisy was Grazia Magazine’s resident agony aunt, winning Dating Journalist of the Year Daisy has written 3 books including the hugely successful How To Be a Grown Up and she’s “One of the Funniest Women On Twitter” according to the Huffington Post. This is a delicious episode packed full of so many great ideas and things to try out. Roasting broccoli in the same way you would roast potatoes but with lots of garlic and chilli sounds heavenly and definitely something I am going to be making. As do the brussell sprouts, they sound fab. Dinner parties at Daisy’s sound like a very delicious affair and is something I definitely need to try and wangle an invite

My guest today is Mark Hix. Renowned chef and restaurateur, Mark is widely recognised as the reviver of modern British cuisine and is famous for his focus on a straightforward interpretation of British cooking. He is without a doubt one of London’s most eminent restauranteurs. Mark launched his first restaurant – Hix Oyster & Chop House in Farringdon, in 2008, after having spent 17 years as chef director at Caprice Holdings. He followed the opening of his first restaurant with Hix at Browns hotel, Hix Soho and the chicken and steak restaurants, Tramshed in Shoreditch and Hixter Bankside. In February 2016, Mark teamed up with artist Damien Hirst to open Pharmacy 2 at the Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. Somehow amongst all of that Mark has written 10 cookbooks, he has a weekly food column and Mark hosts an annual food festival in Lyme Regis, Food Rocks to showcase the best producers and suppliers in Dorset and nearby. It’s been said about Mark by none other than Tracey Emin, “What’s amazing about his

My guest today is Tommy Clarke, Tommy is a world renowned photographer specialising in stunning aerial shots taken all over the world. Tommy grew up on the south coast of England in Dorset and spent nearly every childhood holiday by the beach. This led to, in his own words, a deep interest of the interaction between water and land and how people connect with that location. However it was when he was living in Australia that he first took to the skies and shot aerial photographs of Bondi Beach with stunning results. Since then Tommy has travelled the world as a photographer shooting everywhere from Iceland, to St Tropez and Mexico. This year was a big one for Tommy with Sell-out exhibitions, his own gallery opening in London and a swimwear collection for M&S. I just love hearing how these amazing people got to where they are today – and I think its really inspiring and encouraging to hear that there isn’t just one way. The road is often winding – there are ups and downs, but if you love what you do and wo