Ed Smith: Food writer and author of Rocket and Squash

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Ed Smith.

You may know him by his pen name – Rocket and Squash.

Ed gave up a high flying career in law around 6 years ago to pursue a career in food and I think this is a good listen for anyone thinking about changing career whether into the world of food or beyond.

Ed is the author of the hugely popular and award winning website Rocket and Squash – which is sort of a smorgasbord of delicious things from recipes, to restaurant reviews and cookery news. He has now written 2 cookbooks to much acclaim and regularly writes for a multitude of publications. And in 2015 Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards named him ‘Best Online Restaurant Writer’ and shortlisted him for ‘Best Cookery Writer’. Which is all pretty impressive!

You can find Ed's first book here (https://amzn.to/2PqAAya)

You can find his second book all about Borough Market here (https://amzn.to/2Thia1h)

If you’re listening and you haven’t yet left a review – now’s your chance! It really is quick to do. I know people bang on about it a lot but 5* ratings and subscribing to the podcast really does boost it in the rankings and it really does help me out – so thank you!

Thank you so much for listening Don’t forget to go to the website www.desertislanddishes.co for the full list of episodes plus the recipes I’ve created inspired by each episode. Oh and its brand new – so do head over and have a look because it’s taken me an age!

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Thanks so much for listening!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
0:07.4	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven desert island dishes.
0:13.8	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
0:18.2	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they
0:23.0	would choose to eat before being cast off to the Desert Island. I hope you're all well.
0:28.2	Thank you so much for the lovely emails and Instagram messages you've been sending me about
0:32.9	the podcast. I genuinely can't tell you how nice it is to know that so many of you are listening and enjoying
0:39.4	it. It's honestly the best feeling, so thank you. Despite risking sounding like a broken record,
0:46.8	can I ask you to leave a five-star rating on iTunes and a little sentence about why you like
0:52.9	it as it really is a big help. I'm sure many of you
0:56.8	will already follow this week's guest and Ed had a dramatic career change and I think this might
1:02.6	be a good one for anyone who's ever thought about changing jobs and following their passion,
1:08.3	whether that's into the world of food or not.
1:11.6	But yeah, hope you enjoy.
1:17.2	My guest today is Ed Smith.
1:19.7	You may know him by his pen name, Rocket and Squash.
1:23.0	Ed gave up a high-flying career in law around six years ago to pursue a career in food. He is the
1:28.7	author of the hugely popular and award-winning website, Rocket and Squash, which is sort of a smorgas
1:35.1	board of delicious things from recipes to restaurant reviews and cookery news. He has now written
1:40.6	two cookbooks to much acclaim and regularly writes for a multitude of publications.
1:45.5	In 2015, Fortnomer Mason Food and Drink Awards named him Best Online Restaurant Writer
1:51.0	and shortlisted him for Best Cookery Writer, which is pretty impressive.
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