Summary
Jay Rayner and a panel of top chefs, cooks and food writers are in Ashford, Kent answering questions from a hungry audience of home cooks.
Joining Jay are Mallika Basu, Lerato Umah- Shaylor, Rob Owen Brown and food historian, Dr Annie Gray.
The panel discuss what to cook with buckwheat flour, recipes involving broad beans and settle the most fiery of food debates - do baked beans and peas belong on the same plate.
They discuss flour and custard in all their forms and hear from Pat White of Ashford's Willesborough Windmill, about its 150 year history.
A Somethin’ Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Russell Kane here. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm back for another season of character assassinating the nice guy |
| 0:06.4 | and binging up the baddies in evil genius. |
| 0:09.2 | Yep, even the biggest legends have their skeletons. |
| 0:12.0 | So join me and a panel of brilliant comedians |
| 0:14.4 | to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history |
| 0:16.9 | are more evil or more genius. |
| 0:19.0 | I just think every celebrity, said with respect, Russell, is out of their minds. |
| 0:26.6 | Evil genius with Russell Kane. |
| 0:28.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:37.1 | Hello and welcome to the first in a new series of The Kitchen Cabinet, |
| 0:40.5 | the show that serves up tips, recipes, and a generous helping of food wisdom. |
| 0:45.1 | This week, we're in Ashford in Kent, famously known as the Garden of England. |
| 0:48.7 | It boasts a noble agricultural heritage. |
| 0:51.2 | The county is rich with food production, including apples, cherries and plums. |
| 0:55.1 | So what better place to talk about our breakfast, lunch and dinner? |
| 0:58.7 | Joining me in their elements amid this vegetal bounty are chefs and food writers Lerato O'Mashela, Malacabasu, and Brahm, and with them a woman who likes an old orchard or indeed anything with a few years on it. |
| 1:09.9 | She's really not that picky. |
| 1:11.3 | It's our food historian, Dr. Annie Gray. |
| 1:13.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:19.0 | Alongside its agricultural significance, Ashford is home to the Ashford International Railway Station. |
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