Honey & Co: The Food Sessions
by Honey & Co.
The Food Sessions is back for season 11, with a brand new theme, JOY! Award-winning podcast from husband-and-wife chef-duo, Sarit Packer & Itamar Srulovich of Honey & Co. restaurant, London. In Season 12, The Joy Season, the pair look beyond the food world, as they sit down with brilliant people from all walks of life: chefs, broadcasters, comedians and fashion designers to not only talk about what they do day-to-day, but also to explore the passions that enrich their lives. Podcast of the Year 2021, Fortnum & Mason Awards 2021
Episodes
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Joy Is Christmas Down Under, with Rick Stein
A special Christmas treat for our final episode of the season, and who better to join us than Mr Christmas himself, Rick Stein! Rick is a renowned English chef, restaurateur, writer, and television presenter, best known for his love of fresh, simple seafood and for building a culinary empire in...
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Joy Is A Well Stocked Pantry, with Alison Roman
Alison Roman is an American food writer, chef, and internet personality known for her popular, "highly cookable" recipes that often go viral online. She built her career in professional kitchens and as an editor at Bon Appétit and a columnist for New York Times Cooking. Alison is the New York…
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Joy Is Movement, with Michael O'Hare
Today we’re joined on Honey & Co. The Food Sessions by British chef and television personality, Michael O'Hare. Known for his innovative, experimental, art-inspired cuisine and signature "rockstar" personal style, Michael gained prominence as the chef-patron of the Michelin-starred restaurant The...
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Joy Is Fruit Farming, with Enrique Olvera
Today we’re joined on Honey & Co. The Food Sessions by renowned Mexican chef, Enrique Olvera. Enrique is celebrated for elevating traditional Mexican cuisine to a fine-dining level. He is the chef-owner of the acclaimed two-Michelin star restaurant, Pujol in Mexico City, which is consistently...
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Joy Is An Ice Cream Parlour, with Ravinder Bhogal
Today we’re joined on Honey & Co. The Food Sessions by Ravider Bhogal. Ravinder is an award-winning British chef, food writer, and restaurateur known for her "no borders" cooking style that blends Indian, Kenyan, and British flavours. She is the founder of one of our favourite London restaurants...
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Joy Is Animated Films, with Tim Anderson
Today we’re joined on Honey & Co. The Food Sessions by Tim Anderson.Tim is a chef, food writer, and broadcaster based in London. Winner of Masterchef 2011, Tim’s cooking is primarily informed by his American heritage and his love for regional Japanese food. Tim was the founder of the Japanese…
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Joy Is PE, with Jess Fostekew
Today we’re joined on The Food Sessions by Jess Fostekew. Jess is a comedian, writer and actor whose stand up show, Hench was nominated for the 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show.The show is available as a stand up special on Amazon Prime and was adapted for BBC R4 as Sturdy Girl Club.…
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Joy Is Punk Spirit, with Andi Oliver
We're back for Season 12 of Honey & Co. The Food Sessions, and the joy theme continues! The world feels like a lot right now, and it can be hard to find those small moments that make us smile. In restaurants, we get three chances a day to bring joy - breakfast, lunch and dinner - but it doesn’t...
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Joy is Pupdates, with Samin Nosrat
Today marks the final episode of Season 11, AKA The Joy Season And who better to finish this season with than the most joyous person you are ever likely to meet... Samin Nosrat! Samin has been on the podcast before, back in 2018, with her Sunday Times Book of the Year and New York Times…
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Joy is Family Feasts, with Luke Holder
Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is back for season 11 with a brand new theme: JOY. In this episode we talk to Luke Holder. Luke is chef director at Hartnett Holder & Co at the Lime Wood Hotel in Hampshire, where he’s been cooking for 15 years. Raised in Dubai, Luke has cooked at The Orrery and Oxo...
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Joy is Shopkeeping, with Oliver Spencer
Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is back for season 11 with a brand new theme: JOY. In this episode we talk to our neighbour, British fashion designer Oliver Spencer, the self-taught tailor and shopkeeper behind Oliver Spencer menswear. He left art school to run a stall at Portobello Market, which...
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Joy is Morning Pages, with Sarah Winman
Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is back for season 11 with a brand new theme: JOY. In times like these, when the world can feel a little overwhelming, it’s more important than ever to seek out and savour the joy wherever we can find it. Working in restaurants, we have three moments in a day to…
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Joy is Patisserie, with Alexina Anatole
Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is back for season 11 with a brand new theme: JOY. In times like these, when the world can feel a little overwhelming, it’s more important than ever to seek out and savour the joy wherever we can find it. Working in restaurants, we have three moments in a day to…
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Joy is Water, with Felicity Ward
Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is back for season 11 with a brand new theme: JOY. In times like these, when the world can feel a little overwhelming, it’s more important than ever to seek out and savour the joy wherever we can find it. Working in restaurants, we have three moments in a day to…
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Joy is Talking to Strangers, with Hasan Semay
Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is back for season 11 with a brand new theme: JOY. In times like these, when the world can feel a little overwhelming, it’s more important than ever to seek out and savour the joy wherever we can find it. Working in restaurants, we have three moments in a day to…
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Joy is Dogs, with Emily Maitlis
Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is back for season 11 with a brand new theme: JOY. In times like these, when the world can feel a little overwhelming, it’s more important than ever to seek out and savour the joy wherever we can find it. Working in restaurants, we have three moments in a day to…
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S10SPECIAL An OTK treat for you
A little Christmas treat from us to you! Something to get your teeth stuck into while you're wrapping your presents, stuffing your turkey or out for a walk. You may know that we're OG Yotam Ottolenghi superfans, having both worked at Ottolenghi before we set up our own place, so we've been dying…
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S10SPECIAL 10 years of Honey & Co.
Honey & Co is 10 years old! We couldn't think of a better way to kick off our birthday celebrations than a special episode of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. Coming atcha. Join us, Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, at home as we rustle up a classic Honey & Co dish, talk about how the restaurant…
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S10 is coming! 10 years of Honey & Co.
Coming soon! This year we're celebrating 10 years of Honey & Co and we're going to kick off celebrations with a special episode of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. We will hear from staff, guests, friends and lots of you, too! We will laugh, we will cry and we will share some very exciting news.…
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S09E07 Sugar I Love You with Ravneet Gill
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we're joined by queen of sugar, Ravneet Gill. Ravneet has many strings to her bow - she's a pastry chef and cookbook author, a judge on Junior Bake Off and founder of chefs' collective Countertalk. We're huge fans of everything Ravneet does. We talked to Rav...
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S09E06 Red Sands with Caroline Eden
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we have Caroline Eden joining us! A journalist, food writer and cookbook author, Caroline's latest cookbook Red Sands, Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland, the follow-up to Black Sea, is a reimagining of traditional…
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S09E05 Chetna Makan
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we have Chetna Makan. Chetna is a baker, cookbook author and YouTube star. She worked as a fashion designer in Mumbai before moving to the UK and entering the Great British Bake Off in 2014 when she absolutely stole our hearts! Since then Chetna has written...
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S09E04 Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley
Today on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions we have the most exciting guests, Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley, co-authors of Falastin, a celebration of Palestinian food. They’re both from the powerhouse of Ottolenghi, Sami was a partner from the outset, and Tara joined the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen 10 years...
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S09E03 Renee Erickson
Our guest this week on Honey & Co: The Food Sessions is an incredible chef and a kindred spirit of ours from Seattle, Washington. Renee Erickson is a James Beard award-winning chef and author, she bought her first restaurant at 25 and today co-owns 6 restaurants and bars in Seattle, and that's...
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S09E02 Trine Hahnemann
Welcome back to our podcast Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. We're delighted to welcome Danish food writer and chef, Trine Hahnemann. Trine is hugely important in Danish food culture, she's an inspiration to us personally and a great source of knowledge. She owns a beautiful place in Copenhagen...
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S09E01 JEW-ISH with Jake Cohen
Welcome back to our podcast Honey & Co: The Food Sessions. We're kicking things off with a transatlantic call to the most exciting young chef. Jake Cohen is a New Yorker, he started at culinary school, worked in Michelin kitchens, then moved into food media, writing, reviewing and recipe testing....
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S08E05 CHASING SMOKE Jordan
We're back with the fifth and final episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE, and this week we'll be sharing travel stories and recipes from our incredible trip to Jordan. In this episode we recreate a cheesy sweet knafe we cooked over the fire in Jordan; we catch up with Ramzi...
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S08E04 CHASING SMOKE: Israel
We're back with the fourth episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE, and this week we'll be sharing travel stories and recipes from our trip to Israel back in 2019 when travel was carefree. In this episode we talk about our childhood memories of bonfires and barbecues growing up in...
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S08E03 CHASING SMOKE: Turkey
We're back with the third episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE, and this week we'll be sharing travel stories and recipes from our trip to Gaziantep in Southern Turkey in search of the perfect kebab. In this episode we cook our version of Adana kebab, a recipe that is very…
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S08E02 CHASING SMOKE: Greece
We're back with the second episode in our series about our new book CHASING SMOKE. For the next few weeks we'll be sharing travel stories with you around the Levant, cooking recipes from our trip and catching up with some of the friends we made in each of the countries that we visited. This week...
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S08E01 CHASING SMOKE: Egypt
We're back with a new series of Honey & Co: The Food Sessions all about our new cookbook CHASING SMOKE. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Where there's fire there's delicious food to share, and friendships and memories to make. CHASING SMOKE is a record of our travels around the Levant, chasing...
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Honey & Co: The Food Sessions MIX TAPE
Welcome back to Honey & Co: The Food Sessions with Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich It's been a year. And what a year. We're back with a revival of the podcast, starting with a MIX TAPE for you. If you're of a certain age you'll know all about mix tapes, an expression of love in compilation…
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S07E08 Who Run The World? The Women of Honey & Co
It’s International Women’s Day! To celebrate this glorious day we have one very special episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating inspiring Women In Food. Today’s episode features the most important and inspirational women in our lives, the women running Honey & Co! We like to say that...
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S07E07 Who Run The World? Fay Maschler
This is the seventh episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today's guest is Fay Maschler, restaurant critic at London’s Evening Standard newspaper. Fay won a contest for the position of Evening Standard restaurant critic in 1972. This was supposed to last for three...
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S07E06 Who Run The World? Darina Allen
This is the sixth episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today's guest is Darina Allen, founder of world-renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland and bestselling author of 19 cookbooks. We absolutely love Darina and the school and have had many of her graduates...
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S07E05 Who Run The World? Lisa Markwell
This is the fifth episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today's guest is Lisa Markwell, food editor at The Sunday Times and editor at CODE Hospitality. Lisa has been a journalist for more than 30 years, winning awards as editor of The Independent on Sunday and…
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S07E04 Who Run The World? Romy Gill
This is the fourth episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today’s guest is Romy Gill, what a treat! Romy is a British-Indian chef and cookery teacher and was the owner and head chef at Romy’s Kitchen in Gloucestershire for 6 years. One of the few female Indian chefs…
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S07E03 Who Run The World? Sheila Dillon
This is the third episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today’s guest is multi-award winning food journalist Sheila Dillon, known as the voice of The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4. Sheila started her career in journalism when she reported on the contamination of the...
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S07E02 Who Run The World? Claudia Roden
This is the second episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Today’s guest is Claudia Roden, the goddess of Middle Eastern food writing. Claudia is a cookbook writer and anthropologist, her career spans over 50 years. Originally from Egypt, Claudia grew up in Cairo and...
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S07E01 Who Run The World? Andi Oliver
The first episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food. Since the start of Honey & Co women have reigned supreme; they run our kitchens, our front of house and our offices, and we finally feel that the industry is starting to catch up with us. Women are now leading the way...
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S06E06 Nothing Fancy with Alison Roman
Alison Roman is a columnist for the New York Times Food section and Bon Appétit contributor. She is the author of the bestselling Dining In. Alison has worked professionally in kitchens such as New York’s Momofuku Milk Bar and San Francisco’s Quince. We talk all about her new book, Nothing Fancy,...
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S06E05 Mike Solomonov
Mike is an Israeli chef and restaurateur known for his landmark Philadelphia restaurant, Zahav, where we had the pleasure of speaking to him while we were in town. We spoke to Mike about growing up in a Jewish household in the US, the food of Israel, his introduction to kitchens and how he and…
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S06E04 Nancy Singleton Hachisu on Japan
Nancy is a native Californian, but has lived in Japan since 1988 and is a renowned expert in Japanese food. Nancy’s cookbooks include Japanese Farm Food, Preserving the Japanese Way and her newest book is called Japan: The Cookbook - Nancy has painstakingly reworked traditional material gathered...
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Honey & Smoke Birthday Special with Gill Meller
The third and final instalment of our special smoke series to celebrate the third birthday of our grill restaurant Honey & Smoke. In this episode we had the wonderful Gill Meller join us all the way from Dorset. First we head into the kitchen with Sarit and Itamar to cook up some lamb chops and...
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Honey & Smoke Birthday Special with Ben Chapman
The second instalment of our special smoke series to celebrate the third birthday of our grill restaurant Honey & Smoke. In this episode we had the incredible Ben Chapman, co-founder of award-winning restaurants Kiln, Smoking Goat and Brat come cook a Thai-inspired grill menu for us. First we go...
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Honey & Smoke Birthday Special with Olia Hercules
It's Bonfire Night and our grill house Honey & Smoke is three! To celebrate the third birthday we had not one, not two, but three parties. We invited three fire-loving chefs, Olia Hercules, Ben Chapman and Gill Meller to cook over fire with us and to talk about their life in food and flames. In...
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S06E03 Donal Skehan
Following a slight career detour singing in a successful pop band, Donal Skehan realised food was his true calling and started his popular blog “The Good Mood Food Blog” which chronicled quick cooking dishes and cheap meals. This soon led to cookbooks, tv appearances, a youtube channel and more....
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S06E02 The art of fermentation with Sandor Katz
Sandor Ellix Katz is an American food writer and fermentation revivalist. His books Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyse a broad revival of the fermentation arts. A self-taught...
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S06E01 Tokyo Stories with Tim Anderson
Tim Anderson is a chef, food writer, and MasterChef champion. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Tim studied Japanese food culture at university and lived in Japan for two years. After moving to London, he won MasterChef in 2011 and his epic Japanese soul-food restaurant, Nanban, opened in 2015 in...
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V&A Special - Ep 5 - Karen Guthrie, Jasleen Kaur and Michael Rakowitz
Ep5 of our mini-series in partnership with the V&A to celebrate their fantastic exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate. Recorded live at the V&A museum, in the last episode of the series, we chatted to three artists from the Eating section of the exhibition: Karen Guthrie, Jasleen Kaur and…
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About this show
The Food Sessions is back for season 11, with a brand new theme, JOY!
Award-winning podcast from husband-and-wife chef-duo, Sarit Packer & Itamar Srulovich of Honey & Co. restaurant, London.
In Season 12, The Joy Season, the pair look beyond the food world, as they sit down with brilliant people from all walks of life: chefs, broadcasters, comedians and fashion designers to not only talk about what they do day-to-day, but also to explore the passions that enrich their lives.
Podcast of the Year 2021, Fortnum & Mason Awards 2021
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Honey & Co.