Bread & Butter

Caroline Kenyon meets the indefatigable Glenn Hurowitz, Founder and CEO of Mighty Earth, the global environmental advocacy organisation harnessing the scale of the world's food industry to combat climate change https://mightyearth.org/take-action/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liz Haigh, chef patron of Mei Mei as well as past Masterchef contestant and Sophia Reid, Series Editor, Great British Bake Off, talk to Caroline Kenyon about why we love TV cooking competitions so much and how they change lives. If you'd like to apply for GBBO, you have until 15 December: https://www.channel4.com/4viewers/take-part/bake-off Mei Mei sauces launch Monday 3 November www.meimei.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ravinder Bhogal, of acclaimed restaurant Jikono, tells Caroline Kenyon about her own gastronomic journey and the impact of migration on not only her life in food but that of the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to aclcaimed chef Karan Gokani, renowned for his Sri Lankan restaurant Hoppers, about his latest book, Indian 101, where he celebrates his own home food culture of India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tower Hamlets, one of the UK’s most ethnically diverse areas, shows how food unites us at its first-ever Power of Food festival. Caroline Kenyon talks to Zarina Ahmad and Rokiah Yaman, two of those behind the exciting programme of events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to writer Samantha Ellis about her new book, Chopping Onions on my Heart which tells of her rich Iraqi Jewish culinary heritage and introducing her young son to his family background through food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to beloved chef Gennaro Contaldo about his life in food - growing up in Amalfi, coming to England - and his pride in being Ambassador for Parmigiano Reggiano.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Gok Wan about his life in food and what it means to him - and do you eat food when it'd been dropped on the floor! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to chef Omar Allibhoy about his extraordinary life in food which began in Madrid as a very small boy then to some of London’s greatest restaurants - and his passion for Iberico ham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to podcast phenomenon Lennie Ware of Table Manners about her role as 2025 assessor for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Awards - and how she really feels about cooking.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To mark International Cake Day, Caroline Kenyon talks to Scott Goodfellow, Joint Managing Director, Tiptree, sponsor of The Tiptree Cake Award, a category of the World Food Photography Awards, and Haniyeh Nikoo, Berlin-based baker, food stylist, photographer and Finalist in the Awards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Bex Tonks of St Ewe Free Range Eggs and Rebecca Rayner of Glebe Farm Foods about the pleasure, the challenge and the difference of being a woman farmer in the 21st century Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon catches up with three stellar foodie entrepreneur Finalists in this year’s Black British Business Awards - Ryan Panchoo of Borough 22 Doughnuts, whose business grew from creating allergen-free doughnuts for his daughter and son, Sama Trinder of Bingham Riverhouse, the UK’s only black hotelier and Mike Williams of Flake Bake whose patties won a listing in Aldi via Channel 4.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to trailblazing chef-restaurateur Sally Clarke, of Clarke’s, celebrating an astonishing 40 years in the same location in Kensington. She shares stories of regulars such as Lucian Freud and explains why Valentine’s Day is the least popular day of the year for the hospitality industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon catches up with Lyndey Milan, Australian food and wine star, who shares her passion for food, people and place with life-changing tours through both Puglia and Morocco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks all things rice in National Rice Week with Jon Calland, Chair, The Rice Association and Head of Sustainability, Tilda and Claire Harcup, Head of Sales & Marketing, Europe & Africa, Sun Valley Rice https://www.riceassociation.org.uk/national-rice-week-2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Dr Chintal Patel about her first book, Dr Chintal’s Kitchen, which brings together her love of food, her culinary heritage and her medical understanding of nutrition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Liz Galbraith, creative director and Rein Skullerud, Head, Photo Unit, UN World Food Programmes, about the shortlist for Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2024 - listen in to hear their favourites! View them here: https://foodfmradio.com/the-gallery/framed-worlds-best-food-photos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Mind Your Head week approaches, Caroline Kenyon talks to Stephanie Berkeley of Farm Safety Foundation about their farmers’ mental health initiative, Sarah Dyke MP for Somerton & Frome who is supporting the week, and Gilly Steel, of Lincolnshire Rural Support Network. For more information, head to Mind Your Head Week  (https://www.yellowwellies.org/welcome-to-the-6th-annual-mind-your-head-week/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks pasta with Finn Lagun, co founder of Pasta Evangelists, taking the UK by storm as it opens the country’s largest fresh pasta factory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks food, cookery and charities with one of the UK’s favourite comedians, Harry Hill, as he prepares to host his Meatball Month special supper for family and friends to raise funds for Muscle Help Foundation, providing once-in-a-lifetime experiences for children and young people with muscular dystrophy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks our favourite, happy-making foodstuff with writer Andrew Baker (his latest book is Cake: A Slice of British Life), Stephen Hallam MBE, master baker and Judge of the Tiptree Cake Award, and Loria Stern, Los Angeles-based culinary artist and cake baker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Juliane Caillouette Noble, MD of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, about their new global Power of Food campaign, championing the power of food and community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Vanessa Feltz about British office lunch habits - and how we need to change them for the better Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Ed Gorst, who has just convened a first gathering for British young famers on his family farm in Lincolnshire. Loneliness, diversification, succession were all on the menu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks the entrepreneurial journey with Danny Winer, founder of Hexclad, the pans Gordon Ramsay loves so much he bought into the business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world's best food photos this year have just been announced. Hear them chewed over by Caroline Kenyon with Liz Galbraith and Emma Sleight, judges of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Claire Ladkin, Founder of All About the Cooks, a unique and growing platform connecting home-based cooks with local customers, with two of the cooks - Mrunal, aviation engineer by day, cook by night, and Priscilla, Brazilian-French, channelling her love of baking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carolien Kenyon talks to longstanding judges of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, Liz Galbraith, Creative Director and Emma Sleight, M&S Head of Food Content, about some of their favourite images in the stunning 2023 Shortlist See here for images discussed! https://foodfmradio.com/the-gallery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Dr Sean Rickard, former Chief Economist of the NFU and Liz Webster, farmer and founder of Save British Food about empty supermarket shelves and where we're heading Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to chef/campaigner Asma Khan, newly World Food Chef Advocate, and Rasha Abou Dargham of WFP Lebanon, about their recent travels through the country together, where 1 in 3 is supported by WFP, to bear witness to the scale of the operation and the inspirational projects that bring hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon catches up with 15-year old Thien Leitenberger, already running his own organic cafe in north west Ireland. He shares his food ethos and his exciting ambitions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon learns about the food of Sierra Leone from chef Maria Bradford, blazing a trail in the UK for the food of her home country - and how she'll be spending Christmas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ian McMillan, one of Britain's greatest contemporary poets, talk to Caroline Kenyon about his food memories and a lifelong passion for Yorkshire pudding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Food and mental health is a fast growing area of interest - Caroline Kenyon talks to Lauren Lovatt, founder, Plant Academy, about her beautiful and fascinating new book with health-giving recipes, Mind Food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angela Hui, author of acclaimed book Takeaway talks to Caroline Kenyon about her childhood growing up in her parents' Chinese takeaway business in deepest Wales, while Khalil Radwan tells the tale of moving from the city aged 9 when his parents changed course from academia to starting the UK's first organic halal farm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to condiment king Guy Tullberg of Tracklements and chef Rachel Green about the global shortage of Dijon mustard, the history of mustard and where mustard is going in the 21st century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to campaigning food writer Alex Renton about his new book 13 Foods that Shape our World, a panoramic sweep of everything from oils to spices, cocoa, bread and tomatoes, taking in politics, economics, geography and power on the way Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the run up to National Cream Tea Day, Caroline Kenyon talks to three experts about the uniquely British cream tea, its evolution from aftrenoon tea, why and how it makes us happy. With Kit Kemp, Founder & Creative Director, Firmdale Hotels, Lizzie Collingham, food historian, Kimberley Wilson, psychologist and Finalist, Great British Bake Off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Emma Sleight, Head of Food Content, M&S, and Liz Galbraith, creative director, about the dazzling winning images of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022. See here for the images discussed: https://foodfmradio.com/the-gallery/some-images-plfpoty2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Jenny Linford, acclaimed author, about her latest book, The Kew Gardens Cookbook, a glorious collection of plant-based recipes from many of the UK's greatest chefs and food writers, alongside two of the contributors, fellow food writers Sumayya Usmani and Jenny Chandler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Mark Sisson, US fitness writer and food blogger, about his latest book, Two Meals Day, about how we eat too much, of the wrong kinds of food, at the wrong time of the day - and how people can break free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Jack Scott, co founder of Dash Drinks, which is cutting a swathe through the UK soft drinks market, about the evils of sugar and substitutes as well as the joys of wonky fruit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon explores the world of seaweed and tea - in Scotland. Keith Paterson of Shore Seaweed and Susie Walker Munro of The Tea Gardens of Scotland share their stories of creating exciting new products and challenging preconceptions of taste Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon catches up with Phil Juma, whose much-acclaimed Juma Kitchen in Borough celebrates the Iraqi food of his family heritage, and hears about the emotional impact of his recent, first-ever trip to Baghdad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Sam Calvert about her journey from a childhood in Zambia, to vegetarianism, veganism and now Head of Communications at the Vegan Society at a time of exponential growth in plant-based eating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to young chef Georgia Sommerin on International Women's Day, about cooking alongside her father James at their restaurant, Home at Penarth - and winning their first Michelin star Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon catches up with Tim Coates, co founder of Oxbury, the first-ever bank dedicated to British farmers. They talk Brexit, climate change, soil and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Kenyon talks to Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, The Black Farmer, about his remarkable, highly individual journey from Jamaica to becoming one of the UK's best known farmers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you are feeling January blues, this will cheer you up! Listen up to the might of investment funds making change happen in the food system. @kenyonawards talks to Sophie Lawrence of Rathbone Greenbank about her £5trillion-worth consortium with the National Food Strategy in its sights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices