Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel of chefs, cooks and food writers are in Cambridge discussing romantic recipes for vacuum flasks and the complex history of the pineapple.
Joining Jay at Wolfson College, Cambridge are chefs, cooks and food writers Lerato, Tim Hayward, Sophie Wright and resident food historian, Dr Annie Gray.
The panellists explore Cambridge's connection with pineapple, debate the essential condiments every fridge should hold, and consider the most pressing of questions - do chefs use too much butter?
Later, Jay chats to professor Melissa Calaresu of Gonville and Caius College about the discovery of the fruit in Europe.
Producer: Dulcie Whadcock Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Oh, hello. You have chosen a BBC podcast, but before you listen to it, we thought you might like our podcast too. |
| 0:12.1 | You might. You might. It is called Sightraught with me, Nick Grimshaw. |
| 0:15.2 | And me, Annie Mack. And we talk about the week in music. |
| 0:18.2 | All the news, all the cultural happenings in the UK and beyond, |
| 0:22.2 | and great guests. And it's on BBC Sounds. Yes, where you can also enjoy lots of playlists, |
| 0:27.7 | music mixes and live radio, everything from my six music breakfast show to Radio 3 Unwind. |
| 0:34.5 | But obviously start with our podcast, sidetrack. Obviously. Obviously. |
| 0:40.1 | So if you like music, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet. |
| 0:46.9 | This week, we're at Wolfson College, one of 31 colleges, at an obscure institution called Cambridge University, home to 126 Nobel Prize winners. |
| 0:51.8 | The university can lay claim to many great discoveries, including the |
| 0:55.2 | existence of gravity in 1666, the structure of DNA in 1953, and most impressive of all, |
| 1:01.4 | how to successfully hoist a car onto the roof of Senate House without anybody noticing |
| 1:05.6 | in 1958. |
| 1:10.6 | Some of you are really excited by that. Some of you really couldn't care less. |
| 1:15.9 | Wolfson College says it prides itself on being one of the most diverse colleges in Cambridge |
| 1:20.1 | schooling mature students from 99 different countries. The college ethos is apparently founded |
| 1:25.0 | upon the self-reclaimed values of freedom of thought, |
| 1:29.7 | mutual respect and restless curiosity. |
| 1:32.0 | So our panel should feel right at home. |
| 1:37.2 | Joining me to rouse their own restless minds are four of our very own mature students, |
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