Summary
Jay Rayner and a panel of expert chefs, cooks and food writers are at the London Irish Centre, Camden discussing bouncy foods and cooking with corn. Joining Jay are Angela Hartnett, Jeremy Pang, Big Has and materials expert Dr Zoe Laughlin.
They discuss their best methods for preparing garlic and how to add depth to a homemade tomato sauce, and debate whether fries should be loaded with toppings or left alone.
Jay also stops to chat to Safia Jama from the Al Khaf family restaurant in Whitechapel about the flavours and ingredients involved in traditional Somali cooking.
A Somethin' Else pproduction for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:40.5 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet. |
| 0:42.8 | Today we're at the London Irish Centre in Camden, |
| 0:45.5 | with the occasional rumble of the tube underneath. |
| 0:48.1 | Founded in the 1950s to support Irish immigrants, |
| 0:51.3 | it quickly became a cultural hub joining Irish pubs |
| 0:53.9 | like the legendary |
| 0:54.6 | Dublin Castle as Camden landmarks. By the 1990s, Brit Pop had arrived and bands like Blur |
| 1:00.0 | and Oasis turned Camden streets into their stomping ground, fueled by pints, pies and the ever-compting |
| 1:05.4 | beige delight that is a chip butty. With me today is a bunch of people who are never beige and |
| 1:10.5 | always a delight |
| 1:11.2 | chefs Angela Hartnett, Jeremy Pang and Big Hass, and with them our materials expert, Dr. Zoe Laughlin. |
| 1:16.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:44.5 | Thank you. Since the heady Brit pop era, the Chip Butte has been eclipsed a little, because Camden's famous market now serves many iterations of loaded fries, which have become something of a viral sensation, which were bigged up by Nadia Hussein on our show from Milton Keynes only a couple of weeks ago. We must know, panel, how are you |
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