Dundee
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel are in Dundee answering questions from an audience of keen home cooks. Joining Jay are chefs, cooks and food writers Jocky Petrie, Sarah Rankin, Rachel McCormack and Paula McIntyre.
The panel discuss cooking with wine, haggis nachos, and whether chips are an acceptable topping for pizza. We also hear from Scottish writer, Billy Kay about the importance of claret in Scotland.
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Producer: Dan Cocker
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia. |
| 0:11.1 | You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat. |
| 0:14.0 | Ho! |
| 0:14.3 | Ho! Ho! No, no, no. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems. |
| 0:20.4 | Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay? It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely. |
| 0:26.4 | Give me hip-hip-hop Christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland. |
| 0:30.9 | Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet. This week we've come to Dundee on the Firth of Tay in Eastern Scotland. As well as being known as the city of jute, jam and journalism, Dundee is a leader in video gaming. The global hit Grand Theft Auto was developed here, as was Lemmings. It was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2014. It's the birthplace of the |
| 0:55.2 | Bino and the Dandy Comics, and it's also home to V&A, Dundee, Scotland's first design museum |
| 1:00.6 | and the venue for this recording. In fact, there's so much on offer here in Dundee that I didn't |
| 1:05.3 | even bother mentioning its famous Kate. Can't remember the name, but it will come to me. |
| 1:10.3 | I doubt cow pie will come up in today's |
| 1:12.8 | show, but hoping to get their nashers into some d cake later. Oh yeah, that's what it's called. |
| 1:19.0 | Our food writers and cooks, Rachel McCormack, James Jockey Petrie, Sarah Rankin, and Paula McIntyre. |
| 1:24.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:32.9 | Thank you. and Paula McIntyre. Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. Now, Dundee has a strong connection to Mary Shelley. |
| 1:36.3 | In her use, the writer would spend summers in Dundee, |
| 1:39.4 | and she said it was one of her favorite most creatively inspirational experiences, |
| 1:43.9 | helping her to dream up her most |
| 1:45.2 | famous work, Frankenstein. So panel, give me your Frankenstein dinners or recipes. I want |
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