Haringey

The Kitchen Cabinet

BBC

Arts, Food

4.6 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jay Rayner and the panel are answering questions from an audience of keen home cooks at the Cypriot Community Centre in Haringey, North London.

Joining Jay to share their own tips and recipes are chefs, cooks and food writers Hasan Semay, Georgina Hayden, Tim Anderson and Melek Erdal. Shining a light on Cypriot cooking, Jay and the panel discuss the many uses of halloumi and the unique flavour of sheftalia kebabs. The panellists also offer their best recipes involving cranberries, and how to achieve a smoky kebab flavour without a barbecue, and reveal the biggest fails of their culinary careers.

Produced by Dulcie Whadcock Assistant Producer: Suhaar Ali 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?
0:23.7	It's Christmas Kitchen Disno season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip 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.
0:35.9	Hello and welcome to the Kitchen Cabinet. This week we're at the Cypriot community centre in the
0:41.0	London Borough of Harangay, which stretches across Tottenham, Woodgreen and Hornsey.
0:45.6	Harangay both many fine attractions, including the Bruce Castle Museum, Totman Hotspur Stadium and
0:50.8	Alexandra Palace, the home of the first ever BBC television broadcast in 1936. Good to be back.
0:57.3	Running through the Haringay District like a hot knife through butter is a six-mile-long road called
1:01.7	Green Lanes, which was known in the late 1800s as Beans Green. A short walk north of the Cypriot Centre
1:07.9	along this very lane is London's Little Cyprus, also known as Palmer's Green,
1:11.8	which is home to one of the largest Cypriot populations in the UK. So what better place to discuss
1:17.2	Cypriot food, aside from the East London Tube Station, actually named Cyprus, which is, of course, a
1:22.6	close second. Joining me as chefs, cooks and food writers, Melickdle big hass and tim anderson are making her
1:28.7	kitchen cabinet debut it's north london native georgina hayden ladies and gentlemen your kitchen cabinet
1:33.5	panel a harangay was once home to esteemed piano manufacturers Challon, who, in celebration of the silver jubilee of King George V, decided to build the world's largest piano, measuring a mere 11 feet and 8 inches.
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