Ed Kimber: Winner of the first Great British Bake Off, Baker and Food Writer

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week's guest is Ed Kimber

You may well know him by his pen name: The Boy Who Bakes.

Ed Won the first ever season of GBBO Way back in 2010.

He has gone on to do all manner of exciting things since then. He’s written 3 cookery books, he’s worked in the pastry section at Le Manoir under Raymond Blanc and has created recipes for dozens of the countries best loved magazines. He’s taught cooking to the masses, he’s gone on various tv shows….he’s done the lot.

He is a man of many talents, he’s a baker, a writer and it turns out, he is basically a candlestick maker. He also incidentally makes the best macarons in town.

There is nothing Ed doesn’t know about baking and I learnt a lot in this episode. We find out about Japan’s baking scene which as it turns out is pretty happening and about Ed’d love of travelling and how he gets inspiration for all his cooking.

We also discover what exactly happens when you win The Great British Bake Off and find out how you make it as a freelance baker and food writer. In this episode Ed gives us his take on the GBBO’s move to Channel 4 and we find out what he really thinks of Pru.

*Desert Island Dish: *

Main course: Dipping ramen –cold noodles with amazing dipping saucePudding: Apple crumble

*Luxury: Phone filled with music and podcasts *

Thank you so much for listening. Don’t forget if you haven’t subscribed yet well then you must, and don’t forget to rate and review as it helps others to find the podcast and that is always a good thing.

In honour of Ed, I’ve created a delicious scone recipe which is up on www.desertislanddishes.co. Pop over there to have a look.

That’s all for now, I will see you next week and in the meantime don’t forget to come and find me on instagram – I’m on there as @madebymargie x

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
0:07.8	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
0:14.1	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
0:19.3	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course,
0:23.1	the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the desert island. I hope
0:28.1	you're all well and surviving this freezing weather we're experiencing in the UK at the moment.
0:33.9	It's a time for hunkering down, hibernating and making a pie of some sort I think. Now you know my plans for the weekend. Don't forget if you haven't subscribed yet, well, then you must. And don't forget to rate and review as it really does help others to find the podcast and that is always a good thing.
0:57.4	My guest today is Ed Kimber. You may know him by his pen name, The Boy Who Bakes. Ed won the first
1:04.3	ever season of the Great British Bake Off way back in 2010 and he has gone on to do all manner
1:09.7	of exciting things since then. He's worked at
1:12.5	La Manoir in the pastry section. He's written three cookery books to date and has created
1:18.3	recipes for dozens of magazines. Plus he's taught cooking. He's gone on TV. I mean, he's just done
1:24.1	a lot. He is a man of many talents. He's a baker, a writer, and he makes the best
1:30.1	macarons in town. Welcome, Ed. There, I was going to say he's a baker, he's a writer,
1:36.7	he's a candlestick maker, but I don't know if that is one of your talents. I must have
1:40.4	do a project with a candle company. No way! Oh, that would have been the best opening ever.
1:46.7	Yeah, I'm not technically making the candles.
1:48.7	Okay, well...
1:49.6	We'll have something to do with candles.
1:50.8	That's a technicality.
1:52.2	I can't believe the first series of Bake-off was back in 2010.
1:56.0	How mad is that?
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