Cookbooks of 2016
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Dillon and guests discuss the year's food and cookery books - focussing on debut food books.
Joining Sheila in the studio is cook, gardener and writer Jojo Tulloh, journalist and food writer Alex Renton, and the Features Editor at the trade magazine The Bookseller, Tom Tivnan. There's also tales of cider, science and rogueishness with drinks writer Henry Jeffreys. Also offering up her 2016 choices - is food loving BBC 6 Music DJ, Cerys Matthews.
Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Rich Ward.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:15.0 | As the whirlwind of 2016 nears its end, we turn for hope and inspiration to books, |
| 0:21.0 | our food and drink books of the year, |
| 0:24.0 | once again helping you out with your Christmas dilemmas. |
| 0:27.0 | We'll also be hearing a drink story made possible by a new way of getting into print. |
| 0:31.0 | But before we get to that, let's hear from you. You've |
| 0:34.9 | been getting out your smartphones to record what's been special in your kitchens |
| 0:39.2 | this year. Rachel Hammond from Berrixshire in the Scottish borders. |
| 0:44.0 | Summers under the Tamar entry by Sumaya-Osmani. |
| 0:47.0 | She's transported me to a time and a place that I will never know, |
| 0:51.0 | and it's quite a bewitching adventure to read her book. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Lucy Mackenzie and I'm from Clapham in London. |
| 0:57.4 | Diana Henry Simple really does reflect the title. |
| 1:01.2 | It was such an inspired idea to devote an entire chapter to toast. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm Emma, I'm from Sheffield. My favourite food book of 2016 is the Eat Delicious |
| 1:11.9 | cookbook from tiny budget cooking. It's an online PDF. It was free to download and it's all about how to cook delicious food for just 18 pounds a week. |
| 1:22.0 | Bill King. Comeumbran in South Wales. |
| 1:25.0 | Sault is essential by Sean Hill. |
| 1:28.0 | Not only does he have a wide range of recipes in there, |
| 1:31.0 | there's a lot of talking and explaining about food and processes. |
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