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EPISODE · Apr 16, 2025 · 6 MIN

Poppy O'Toole,  TikTok's High Priestess of the Potato and author of Poppy Cooks: The Potato Book

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ABOUT POPPY O'TOOLE AND POPPY COOKS: THE POTATO BOOK You asked, and she delivered-this is Poppy Cooks' all-potato cookbook. Whether you like them fried, baked, mashed, or roasted, TikTok's High Priestess of the Potato gives you the ultimate potato book. The spud-the humblest of ingredients-can be made into more than just mashed potatoes (but if it is mash, make it the best mashed potatoes ever), and in this book Poppy O'Toole celebrates the range and variety from just this one mighty ingredient. In these pages, Poppy gives you all the tools you need to achieve the perfect potatoes every time-whether it's a trusted roasted potato, a melt-in-the-mouth fondant, moreish fries and wedges or the perfect bake. Poppy includes all the most-loved potato dishes alongside mouth-watering international classics (think latkes, dauphinoise and patatas bravas), and even some old-school favourites (hello, potato smiles), not to mention a whole chapter dedicated to her sensational 15-hour potatoes. Across 101 recipes, Poppy shares her top tips and tricks for cooking with different methods and flavours to give you THE book you need to raise your spud game and cook like the Potato Queen herself. ABOUT POPPY O'TOOLE Michelin-trained internet sensation Poppy O'Toole created her social media profile, Poppy Cooks, after losing her kitchen job during the pandemic. Known for creating easy-to-follow recipe tutorials, Poppy currently has over 4M followers on TikTok. Following almost a decade in professional kitchens, Poppy launched her debut cookbook The Food You Need in 2021, which received praise from the likes of Nigella Lawson, Rukmini Iyer and the Daily Mail - who called her the "millennials answer to Delia Smith". In January 2022, Poppy was announced as a judge on the new series of Young MasterChef. She was also a judge on E4's Celebrity Cooking School, alongside Giorgio Locatelli. ON SOCIAL MEDIA: TikTok - 4.4M - https://www.tiktok.com/@poppycooks?lang=en IG - 1.1M - https://www.instagram.com/poppy_cooks/?hl=en FB - 118K - https://www.facebook.com/cookspoppy/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.Subscribe now at YouTube.com/@RefocusedNetworkThank you for your time. 

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