Cookbooks of 2018

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon is joined by cook and food-writer Chetna Makan, Tom Tivnan from The Bookseller’—the book industry’s bible, and Kate Young who won the Guild of Food Writers Blogger of the Year award in 2017 discuss the cookbooks of 2018. The list includes books by Diana Henry, Caroline Eden, Thom Eagle, Bosh!, Yasmin Khan and Snoop Doggy Dogg. They also discuss the inspiration for writing a book, how the books are produced, and the role social media plays in deciding who gets a book deal and how the books are produced and marketed. Rachel Roddy also gives her favourites of the year.

There are also nominations from Mitch Tonks, Olia Hercules, Russell Norman, Bee Wilson and Paula McIntyre.

Producer: Toby Field

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0:57.0	a help with your Christmas list, we hope, with three people who know a lot about the creation of cookbooks.
1:09.1	Cook and food writer Chetna McCann, whose book Chai Chat and Chutney, A Street Food Journey through India
1:15.6	was one of the last year's Cook Books of the Year and who has a new book coming out in January.
1:21.4	Kate Young, who won the Guild of Food Writers Blogger of the Year Award in 2017,
1:26.4	and went on to write the Little Library Cookbook. And Tom Tivenan, who chose the Little Library cookbook last year as his Book of the Year,
1:35.8	coincidentally, joins us from the bookseller, the Book Industries Bible.
1:40.9	Tom Chetner and Kate have both produced cookbooks. Now you used to be, you know, you're not just at the bookseller, but you used to actually review restaurants. I mean, and you've written a novel last year and I and had you what about writing a cookbook I don't think I would I don't think I have the chops to write a recipe book I would kind of be interested in writing something on the culture of foods because a lot of my memories are about food and culture and maybe a memoir twined with my eating.
2:12.0	Yeah, because you've taken part in this program, we think it's your fourth year.
2:15.6	I think so.
2:16.9	And that's a very, that's what one of the things I really remember about you, you have very strong
2:21.9	food memories. In fact, one of the books you've
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