Abergavenny
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel are answering questions from an audience of keen home cooks in Abergavenny.
Joining Jay to discuss toasties and mead are chefs, cooks and food writers, Rob Owen Brown, Angela Gray, James ‘Jocky’ Petrie and resident food historian Dr Annie Gray.
The panellists share their best ideas for perfecting the humble toastie, discuss ideal recipes for batch cooking and provide their opinion on the age old debate of Ketchup or Brown Sauce on a sausage sandwich.
Later on, Jay chats to local mead brewer, Matt Newell from Hive Mind Meadery about the process and flavour profiles of mead.
Producer: Dulcie Whadcock Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
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| 0:31.2 | the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet. This week, we're in Abigavenny, a picturesque, |
| 0:40.5 | Monmouthshire Market Town with an exceptional food scene. Known as the Gateway to Wales, |
| 0:45.7 | Abukovany was put on the culinary map in 1999, courtesy of its annual food festival, which has grown |
| 0:51.2 | from humble beginnings to become one of the UK's best-known events, |
| 0:54.7 | attracting tens of thousands of visitors each September. The festival is so popular that we've |
| 1:00.0 | decided to visit in March, just so we can get hotel room space. This town is so obsessed that |
| 1:05.6 | one of its surrounding pizzas is named after a food, sugar loaf, part of the Black Mountains. |
| 1:10.2 | Always up for getting into the festival spirit |
| 1:12.3 | our food writers and cooks Robo and Brown, |
| 1:14.8 | Angela Gray and James Jockey Petrie, |
| 1:16.8 | and our peak performer, she's sweeter sugar and often using her loaf. |
| 1:20.1 | It's food historian, Dr. Annie Gray. |
| 1:21.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:33.3 | Thank you. Panel. Now, the Abergavenny Food Festival has become something of an institution. |
| 1:37.1 | I like to describe it as Glastonbury for people on statins. |
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