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grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Cooking on the fire in the great outdoors with Gill Meller - Episode 229

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

Food, Grow, Home & Garden, Arranging, Arts, Cooking, Kitchen, Arrangements, Lifestyle, Vegetables, Eat, Eating, Flower Arranging, Sarah Raven, Planting, Garden, Produce, Gardener, Flowers, Growing, Cook, Leisure, Veg Garden, Home, Gardening

4.8788 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

There’s nothing quite like cooking outside, and summer provides the perfect opportunity to light a fire and cook up a feast, all inspired by expert tips and recipes courtesy of chef and author, Gill Meller. Highlighting delicious recipes from his book ‘Outside’, Gill joins Sarah on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ to share stories of his early forays cooking outdoors, the recipes he couldn’t live without, and some common pitfalls to avoid when you’re inevitably inspired to cook on the fire. In this...

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0:00.0

Thanks so much for listening to Grow Cook Eat Arrange. I'm sitting in the kitchen at Perch Hill

0:05.2

and the garden's looking particularly lovely at the moment and so I just wanted to do a kind of

0:11.1

NB to anyone who's within shouting distance of Perch Hill or not quite shouting distance but travel

0:18.1

distance which is we're open for the next few months, a few days a

0:22.6

month. And yeah, it would be really lovely to see you. So go on our website and you'll find all the

0:29.2

details of booking there. You can book lunch on three different time slots or you can just come

0:34.0

and wander around the garden. So it's garden only or garden visit plus lunch.

0:38.7

So I hope to see some of you then.

0:50.8

Welcome to Grow Cookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and various different guests, sometimes chefs.

0:58.7

And today I'm joined by a chef who I've known a long time, who is a really dear man called Gilmeller.

1:05.5

He's based down in the West Country. He's based near Bridport, one of the most beautiful parts of the country.

1:11.0

I met Gil initially through River Cottage and Hugh Ferner-Witting Still, and he's been to

1:16.0

Perch Hill quite a few times for our food festival that we did 10 or 15 years ago now, but he cooks

1:22.3

just, just, just the sort of food that we all want to eat. So first thing is welcome, Gil. It's so nice to have you

1:28.7

here. You were on the podcast a few years ago, weren't you, a couple of years ago or something.

1:33.3

I may well have been, but it's great to be back on again. Thank you so much. And it's lovely to

1:40.2

see, Sarah. It's been probably a few years since I last saw your pace.

1:46.4

It is.

1:47.2

It has been a while.

1:48.8

Anyway, I want us to talk about a theme that Gill has made his own in his newish book

1:55.8

called Outside that is unbelievably beautifully photographed by Andrew Montgomery, who is just such a great photographer

2:04.9

forgetting atmosphere and kind of more than just what's in front of your eyes, if you sort of

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