Bristol
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel are in Bristol where they take on a fresh batch of questions from an audience of hungry home cooks.
Joining Jay are chefs, cooks and food writers, Angela Gray, James 'Jocky' Petrie, Sophie Wright and resident food historian Dr Annie Gray.
Together they share their secrets for perfectly fluffy omelettes, debate the age‑old question of whether puff pastry is better homemade or shop‑bought, and celebrate 'Something on a Stick' Day with their recommendations for stick‑based dishes for an Easter BBQ. And amid the good‑natured chat, it turns out dough isn’t the only thing that gets cross, as the panel unleash their views on the worst hot cross bun “abominations” they’ve encountered lately.
Producer: Matt Smith Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | An early start here. It's time to kick off. |
| 0:10.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:11.9 | What a line-up. |
| 0:13.3 | Oh, thanks very much. We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:16.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:18.3 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:20.2 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:23.6 | And everything in between. BBC sounds packed with personality. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet this week. We're in Bristol, a city famous for its maritime past and for a fiercely independent present expressed through, among other things, |
| 0:38.0 | music, street art and its food scene. Bristol was once one of the country's major ports, |
| 0:42.5 | with a mixed and complex history built in part on a trade in enslaved people. As part of that trade, |
| 0:48.0 | sugar, spices, cocoa and coffee all passed through here, leaving their mark on the city's |
| 0:52.6 | kitchens and sweet shops. Hence, among |
| 0:54.7 | the city's claims to fame is the fact that Bristol chocolatiers, J.S. Frye and Sons, produced |
| 1:00.1 | the world's first mass-produced chocolate bar here in 1847. Joining me to unwrap your culinary |
| 1:06.5 | curiosities are food writers and cooks, Sophie Wright, Angela Gray and James Jockey Petrie, |
| 1:11.2 | and adding a little historical sweetness to the mix. She's a woman who knows her cocoa from her |
| 1:15.8 | cacao. It's food historian Dr. Annie Gray. Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, Bristol is home to one of the UK's most successful creative enterprises, Ardman Animation, |
| 1:32.4 | the studio behind the beloved Wallace and Gromit, which is located just a short distance away from where we're recording today at the SS Great Britain Visitor Centre. |
| 1:40.8 | Those of you have seen their wonderful films will know that Wallace and cheese are inseparable. |
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