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Menu
by CravenK
This is THE feel-good food stories podcast. The joy of food shared through guests, reviews and food chat.
Episodes
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Menu episode 57
My most excellent guest is, Chef Dom, aka Dominic Taylor. Best known as the winner of Five Star kitchen - Britain's Next Great Chef - on Channel 4 and Netflix. And his recent residency at The Langham, where he showcased the fantastic Good Front Room. Dom and I talk about his fine dining work with...
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Menu episode 56
This week's brilliant guest is Daneash restaurant owner and chef who creates tasty food via 'Daneash taste of the Carribean.' We talk about his food memories from back home in Jamaica. How what seems like the whole of his family can cook really well. And how his grandmother made sure he could…
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Menu episode 55
This week's superb guest is Lorraine Copes Founder and CEO of Be Inclusive Hospitality. A not-for-profit organisation with a mission to accelerate racial equality in the hospitality sector. We talk about the good work Lorraine does. Why it's so important, and how she got into the hospitality...
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Menu episode 54
My fantastic guest this week is Liam part of the foodie podcast duo responsible for Breaking Bread! A podcast that celebrates the wonderful dynamic food scene in Birmingham. Liam and Carl do a great job of spreading the word and their enthusiasm about Birmingham culinary scene. We talk about…
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Menu episode 53
My superb guests this week are Giorgio and Alessandro from Amore restaurant in Moseley, Birmingham. We had such a good chat! They’re full of character, stories and good vibes, including the rivalry between them and northern and southern Italy. Ha! We talk expansion plans, how they met, and of...
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Menu episode 52
My fantastic guest this week is Louise Kissack. Lou is not only a food consultant she also does a great job running Liverpool Food Network. We talk hospitality, helping foodie startups, food (of course) and lots in between. I go down memory lane and ask Lou what her favourite food was a child…
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Menu episode 51
My superb guest this week is Dan Nash, brand supermo in the hospitality space. Dan started out in the music industry before he decided hospitality, branding, and story telling was for him! We chat about how he got into doing what he does. And he tells me all about his love for food from East Asia…
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Menu episode 50
This week my guest is the brilliant Sasa Cromack, who’s a Matron working for the NHS, Blood and Transplant. Sasa and I talk food and blood! We chat about the kind of foods you need for top notch blood, particularly if you want to be a regular blood donor - as I am. We also talk food memories, her...
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Menu episode 49
My guest this week is the superb Hannah Todd from The Interesting Eating Company in Liverpool. Hannah gives us the lowdown on how she got into hospitality. And how she very much considers her eatery to be a people business, with customers front and centre - caring about their dietary needs....
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Menu episode 48
This week my brilliant guest is the one and only Chef Robbie, who is making history by being the youngest guest on Menu podcast! Whoop! Chef Robbie (who I met with his mom Jess) told me all about how he cooks up a storm in the family kitchen. He was inspired to cook after lockdown by the Anime...
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Menu episode 47
My fantastic guest this week is Lee Hollington, Head Chef at B:eats in Symphony Hall, Birmingham. We talked all things food and had a laugh along the way. Lee’s famous Brummie Bacon Cake was featured on the BBC 1 Hairy Bikers TV programme (Christmas edition) and were inspired by his loving…
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Menu episode 46
This week my brilliant guest is Tony Elvin, General Manager of Touchwood in Solihull, West Midlands and The Wine Events Company. Tony tells us how his hospitality journey began. And how his chatty nature at school, where he says he drove the teachers mad, was a good sign that he was a people...
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Menu episode 45
It’s a festive Christmas and New Year edition this week! I cover a Christmas lunchclub, the Christmas sandwich from M&S, and a starter from a dinner I went out for during the Christmas period which was absolutely sensational! Also, there’s a quick 2024 Happy New Year message for ya’ll. Keep...
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Menu episode 44
My guest this week is the brilliant Kieron Bailey! He’s co-owner of Otolo - who develop, support & retain the hospitality workforce! Kieron’s also a host, speaker and all round positive good energy guy! We talk about how he got into food and drink. What motivates him in his work, childhood...
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Menu episode 43
This week my brilliant guest is Chef Darren! Yes, that’s what he calls himself and so do I, ha! His full name and title it’s Darren Liew, a Culinary Director, who is a chef Blue Jasmine - South East Asian Fine Dining. We have a good natter about Darren’s Malaysian back and upbringing. Find out…
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Menu episode 42
My guest this week is the superb Jem Scragg, a personal trainer who incorporates food, nutrition, performance and wellness. He works with clients who are supa dupa busy and want to keep themselves fit, healthy and keep to their goals. Jem’s company Nirvu, is all you need if your busy as hell and...
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Menu episode 41
My guest this week is the brilliant Franciane Tartari. The Queen of the Sugar Embassy and a Sweet Diplomat too, haha! This means nothing to you, but she’ll get it. Franciane tells us all about how she became a pastry chef, and what led her to get into that area of food. We also get into her...
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Menu episode 40
This week my superb guest is wellness and nutrition guru, Andy Aston! Andy does his magic at Baxtery Storey, and is full of passion about food as fuel and plant based goodness! We talk about his career journey as a chef and food wellness wonder, as well as his gorgeous food memories with his mom...
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Menu episode 39
My guest this week is the brilliant Aidan Schwarzer, a fine wine specialist at Tanners Wines. We talk about how he got into the wine business. Why he loves what he does (hello Tanners Wine Tasting Tuesdays, ha!), his career, and of course his food family memories. Pay attention to the Gremlins…
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Menu episode 38
This week I talk to you about the superb Birmingham Restaurant Festival, which came to an end on August 27th. The fantastic super-dupa foodie drama The Bear, and my visit to Lichfield Food Festival for the first time in my life! It's only up the road from me: shocking. Ha! First up, it’s my...
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Menu episode 37
My guest this week is the superb Adam Hayes! A hospitality and sales professional, stroke survivor, and charity ambassador. Adam’s story has high and lows, illness, food, family and friends, grit, and survival! He talks about his hospitality heroes, who inspired him to get into the business, and...
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Menu episode 36
My guest this week is the brilliant Jason McCrellis, chef and owner of the fantastic Hip Hop Food Shop - the home of hip hop beats and killer eats! I just love his company tag line! Me and Jason chew the fat and talk about who inspired him to be a chef. Hello Lenny Henry, it was you! We talk...
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Menu episode 35
My guest this week is the phenomenal Cherish Finden, currently a judge on Channel 4 tv programme Bake Off: The professionals! Not only is she a highly decorated pastry chef, she’s also great to have a chat with as I did in my interview. Cherish’s story about how she became a pastry chef is so...
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Menu episode 34
This week my brilliant guest is the Vanessa Kelly of 2 Much Passion. She’s a food-centred social entrepreneur who has a not-for-profit business. She delivers exciting projects covering training, events and project management. Listen to how her business came about, which stemmed from a family trip...
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Menu episode 33
My superb guest this week is Chaîne GB Young Chef competition winner 2023, the fantastic Maciej Pisarek. Maciej beat off stiff competition and was crowned winner in May this year, at the final ceremony in London. Having chatted to him, I can see how it happened. Such a brilliant Chef! He been...
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Menu episode 32
This week, my brilliant guest is the cheesemonger of all cheesemongers Mick James of Queso! Mick was a secondary school teacher who quit teaching and followed his passion for cheese, after he was introduced to the cheese world by a friend. He has some great stories, good energy and just has a...
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Menu episode 31
The one with my superb guest Akudo Agokei, a private chef who started his cheffing journey self taught, and is now fully qualified he’s knocking it out of the park! We talk about the big changes that led him to becoming a chef and the tricky times that have helped him to become the brilliant chef...
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Menu episode 30
My guest this week is the brilliant Jess Latchford! Not only is she the founder of Waste Knot, but she’s also created foraging phenomenon Leading Wild. Jess tells us all about what she does and her passion shines through in this interview. It’s good to hear. We also step back in time and talk…
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Menu episode 29
This week I tell you about my foodie trip to Lightswood Park, courtesy of Digbeth Diner. I give an account of my adventure at a foodie event, and get the microphone out as soon as I get in there, haha! It was lovely to soak up the atmosphere. Pure sunshine and good vibes all round. Listen to how…
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Menu episode 28
My guest this week is BaxterStorey's Lizzie Hennig, a top Nutritionist. She knows her onions...literally! Lizzie gives advice to us foodies who love our food and talks about the importance of lifestyle when it comes to eating well. And...guess what...she loves a naughty potato! Haha! I take a…
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Menu episode 27
In this week’s episode, I’ve been chatting to Hospitality and Culinary Art Management degree Students at University College Birmingham (UCB), when I did a talk for them about this very podcast! They got creative ideas for their own food podcast. Some really good stuff suggestions came up. I…
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Menu episode 26
In this episode I’ve been out and about, took myself down to Unilever kitchens in Surrey to get involved in the Chaine UK Young Chef Competition! I was invited by Chef Ben Purton. It was a wonderful day, really positive - great bunch of people! The chefs competing and judges were in their…
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Menu episode 25
This week my podcast guest is the brilliant Paul Watters! An accomplished well travelled chef who's not only a food columnist, but also a regular on American TV! Paul's doing a great job of spreading his glorious message of simple, tasty, healthy food! And, as it’s Easter, I tell you what you can...
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Menu episode 24
My guest this week is the fantastic Joan Blaney, whose allotment legacy work is in the name of her late husband, a GP, who believed food was medicine. Joan has beautiful, fond and loving memories of her husband and his nourishment food-filled work. She also talks about her food memories when she...
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Menu episode 23
My guest this week is the brilliant Jose’ from A La Mexicana. You will love his food stories of food and tequila and how he ended up in Birmingham from his sun-drenched country of Mexico. He gives us the low down on how he came to Bearwood and the superb food and drink combinations he brought…
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Menu episode 22
This week my guests are a plethora of peeps all here to celebrate food memories and their fantastic mothers. Happy Mother’s Day! We listen to beautiful, funny, poignant and warm stories of my guest’s moms in the kitchen whisky up memories for life. Memories from Rosa, Zong, Glynn Purnell, Ben,...
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Menu episode 21
This week my guest is the brilliant Roger Edwards, an entertainer whose part of a long-standing cooking family. And will have you in hysterics! His food family stories are superb. You'll love it! He's from a long-standing cooking family, and tells us the crazy food adventures he and his cousin…
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Menu episode 20
This week my guest is the fantastic Michael Wilkinson, a Sports Performance Chef. Michael tells us about the sports performance chef world, and what he does when working with athletes. After chatting sporty food stuff, we take a wander down memory lane, where he tells us all about the great…
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Menu episode 19
The one with guest Rosie Wells, a tv presenter and head honcho behind food show Bearwood Bites. Rosie tells us how the show came about and why she’s so passionate about the food scene in her community - Bearwood. We also take a walk down memory lane and Rosie gives us a taste of her food tales...
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Menu episode 18
The one with guest Povan Bharadwaj, a freelance chef based in Wolverhampton. Povan tells us his food tales and eclectic journey as a chef and how his background and culture brought him back to his home town. Great family stories around food and great tales of food memories! Povan tells us about…
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Menu Episode 17
The one with everyone talking about the day of LOVE - Valentine’s Day! I have interviews with Ben Purton, Rosa Brough, Jason McCrelis, Micheal Wilkinson, Zong Tang. Along with Jose’, Povan Bhardwaj, Jeffery Koren and Aduko Agokei. They give us the highs and lows of Valentine’s Day with lots of...
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Menu Episode 16
The one with guest Zong Tang, a head chef for a top notch golf club in Wakefield. Zong's food story is of a man whose family escaped from a country, was in a jungle in Vietnam, and then got rescued to England! Remarkable! Food was a major part of the whole journey! Just shows what a powerful role...
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Menu Episode 15
The one with guest Melinder Williams, a nurse and chef who cooks amazing Trinidadian food. Yum! Melinder tells us about how her business came about, her Trini cuisine, and her superb food memories from the Caribbean and the UK. The story of her mom at the restaurant in Hilton hotel in London is...
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Menu Episode 14
The one with guests, yes that’s plural, ha!....I have Ros McAteer a Senior Lecturer at University College Birmingham (UCB) - an education establishment that teaches you all you need to know about the hospitality industry. Ros joins me with her brilliant students, Ines and Nelise. All three guests...
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Menu Episode 13
The one with guest Ben Purton, a Hospitality Consultant and Executive Chef, who’s worked for Harrods and Selfridges. You can also get stuck into my x2 dinner dating story. Where I found out that one man had a very low food dining out limit, haha. Can’t believe the x2 dinner was a rule! Also…
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Menu Episode 12
The one with guest Jeff Koren, a former Sommelier who's now a wine and spirit buyer. Me and my friend Meena met him on a Malta food tour. I know! It’s good to talk, eh. I’m also bringing the Malta sun with me in January, and feature my culinary adventures of my food tour in Valletta. It was…
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Menu Episode 11
Happy New Year Menu lovers! This is the one that’s all about the podcast interview adventures of 2022. It’s my best bits! Listen to fun and joyous food tales from top chef and restaurateur, Glynn Purnell, Rosa Brough of Seven Fifty Films, Conrad Brunton of Tonic Talent. Along with food memories…
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Menu Episode 10
The Birmingham Christmas Shelter one, where I volunteered at a local charity on Christmas Day. The Shelter provides adults who are homeless or alone at Christmas with a free warm, safe and welcoming place to eat, shower, sleep and enjoy Christmas. With guests Jim the chef, music from Jess the...
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Menu Episode 9
The one with guest Conrad Brunton of Tonic Talent, a speacilist recruitment company within the catering and hospitality industry. Also includes my Christmas food memory when I was a kid. And a little Greggs experience which made me laugh, so just had to record a clip of what happened. And of…
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Menu Episode 8
The one with guest Phil Oldershaw an event host and presenter. Also includes my superb getaway to Malta with my brilliant friend Meena. Listen to the Mediterranean foodie adventures, as I talk you through my food highlights of Malta’s culinary delights. And of course, we have the social share.…
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This is THE feel-good food stories podcast. The joy of food shared through guests, reviews and food chat.
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Menu is created and hosted by CravenK.
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