Ainsley Harriott: Chef and TV Presenter
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Ainsley Harriott.
Ainsley is a chef, a TV presenter, a business man and cookbook author. He has sold more than 2 million cookbooks worldwide and he now has his own range of supermarket foods, including couscous, risotto, soups and cereal bars.
He won the heart of the nation during his time presenting Ready Steady Cook and became one of the most recognised TV personalities – he is back on our screens with a new series called Ainsley’s Caribbean Kitchen – Sunday’s on ITV at 11.30am if you fancy tuning in.
Such is Ainley’s popularity that back in 2015 there was a petition to get him on the new £20 note and it gained more than 25,000 signatures.
Hope you enjoy today’s episode!
The link to get tickets to the live event next weekend where I will be interviewing Madeleine Shaw is here:
Thank you to Robert Welch for sponsoring this episode of Desert Island Dishes. Don’t forget to use the discount code DISHES10 – to get an extra 10% off the Camden Cookware Range on robertwelch.com.
If you’re listening and you haven’t yet left a review – now’s your chance! It really is quick to do. And it really helps other people to find out about the podcast which is also great – and I read all of them and they really do brighten up my day – so it could be your good deed of the day!
Thanks so much for listening!
You can find me on instagram - @margienomura and you can visit the website www.desertislanddishes.co for lots of recipes and kitchen tips and tricks.
You can find Ainsley @ainsleyfoods
See you next time!
Bye
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Marji Namura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the weekly podcast in which I asked my guests to choose their seven Desert Island |
| 0:11.5 | dishes. |
| 0:12.9 | These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best |
| 0:17.6 | dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before |
| 0:22.8 | being cast off to the Desert Island. How are you? I hope you're all well. Last week, I told you |
| 0:29.1 | about the live recording of Desert Island dishes that I'm doing on the 2nd of February, |
| 0:34.4 | and it's so exciting that so many of you are coming there are I think literally two |
| 0:39.6 | tickets left and I would love for you to get them all the details in the show notes for today's |
| 0:45.5 | episode and on my Instagram highlights so just follow the link and get your hands on them |
| 0:50.8 | and I will see you there this episode is brought to you in partnership with |
| 0:56.2 | Robert Welch. They do the most brilliant cookware and the good news is that they have 20% |
| 1:01.7 | off their Camden cookware range at the moment until the end of January and they're offering |
| 1:06.6 | Desert Island dishes listeners an extra 10% off on top of that, which is a huge discount, |
| 1:12.9 | and all you have to do is use the code Dishes 10, that's Dishes and then the number 10 at checkout |
| 1:19.7 | on Robert Welch.com. I genuinely have pretty much the whole of their Camden Cookwear range, |
| 1:26.1 | and it really is great. So thank you so much, |
| 1:29.1 | Robert Welch. And if your pots and pans need of a bit of a new year overhaul, now is the time to do it. |
| 1:36.4 | Without further ado, here is today's episode. |
| 1:42.2 | My guest today is Ainsley Harriet. |
| 1:45.2 | Ainsley is a chef, a TV presenter, a businessman and a cookbook author. |
| 1:50.0 | He's sold more than 2 million cookbooks worldwide, and he now has his own range of supermarket foods, including cus, risotto, soups and cereal bars. |
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