• Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

  • Written by: Gilly Smith
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Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

Written by: Gilly Smith
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  • Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is the winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Best Broadcast or Podcast Award 2022, and was shortlisted for Fortnum and Mason Best Podcast 2022 and 2024.


    It's about all of life from climate change to culture and politics to people through the prism of food. It's for foodie book lovers who want to hear something more profound about the way we live, making the link between delicious food and the impact of food production on the land - through books.


    Hear how A-lister food writers have changed the conversation about food as Gilly talks through their four chosen food moments from their latest books. As she joins the dots between stories from the old country and food identity, plant-based recipes and climate change, she shows how a deeper connection with food really could save the planet.


    Listen to all your favourite food writers from Claudia Roden to Yotam Ottolenghi, Sheila Dillon to Anna Jones, Prue Leith to Elisabeth Luard, Gill Meller to Ravinder Bhogal, Dan Barber to Raymond Blanc as Gilly finds what's cooking in the minds of our food writing stars.


    Do support the podcast by subscribing, and PLEASE leave a review. You can do this by clicking HERE for the link to Apple Podcasts, click on Listen on Apple Podcasts under the show title and then click on Rating and Reviews! Thank you so much.


    For more information and to join the mailing list, visit Gilly Smith


    Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is rated in the top 2.5% of global podcasts by ListenNotes and in the top 40 of food podcasts globally by FeedSpot


    Theme music by Willy Zygier



    Gilly Smith is also the presenter of the delicious. podcast and Leon's How to Eat to Save the Planet which was highly commended in the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2021. She won the Investigative Food Work Award for Right2Food (now known as the Food Foundation Podcast) in the same awards.


    She also produced The Big Table for Philip Lymbery, CEO of Compassion in World Farming, and is the multi-award winning author of Taste and the TV Chef: how storytelling can save the planet (Intellect Books 2020)


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Episodes
  • Cooking the Books Live with Claire Thomson

    Cooking the Books Live with Claire Thomson
    Feb 13 2025

    This week, we’re celebrating CTB’s fifth birthday with another in our series of Live events at Rockwater in Hove, this time with Claire Thomson.


    The Five o clock Apron, as she’s more commonly known was with us to talk about her latest book One Pan Beans, the 10th in her series of how to cook books. In front of an audience of super-fans, she told us how to elevate the simplest of ingredients - beans, chickpeas and lentils - into fabulous weekday meals and weekend feasts.


    Pop over to Gilly's Substack for the Q&A which has masses of tips from the book.



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    28 mins
  • Kathy Slack: Rough Patch

    Kathy Slack: Rough Patch
    Feb 6 2025

    This week, Gilly finds out what happens when life falls apart, and grows again, with Kathy Slack’s Rough Patch


    Kathy was a high flying executive living the dream in Adland... until it became a nightmare. Burn out gave way to clinical depression and a very dark place indeed. Ultimately hers is a story about nature, dogs and how growing veg saved her, but she doesn’t pull any punches, and trigger warning, she and Gilly do talk about how depression can lead to suicidal thoughts, although thankfully not in her case.


    Pop over to Substack for Extra Bites of Kathy, including the recipe from that Pitstop Tart.


    And if you or someone you know needs to talk about suicide, here are some useful numbers:

    Samaritans 📞 116123

    Papyrus- for under 35s 📞 08000684141


    And to learn how to have compassionate, courageous conversation that could save a life, click here to Start the Conversation


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    36 mins
  • Niloufer Mavalvala: The Route to Parsi Cooking

    Niloufer Mavalvala: The Route to Parsi Cooking
    Jan 30 2025

    This week, Gilly's with Niloufer Mavalvala to discover the food of the Zorastrians in the fourth of her compendium, The Route to Parsi Cooking.


    This is about food without borders, a cuisine which is under threat as so many are when their people are displaced. But as we hear so often on this show, they can also become the roots to a culture. With only about 200k Zoroastrians living around the world, Niloufer tells Gilly why she has taken it upon herself to revive this ancient cuisine.


    Click here for Extra Bites of Niloufer on Gilly's Substack




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    27 mins

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