Hastings
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel are in Hastings in front of a live audience who are in need of answers to their kitchen conundrums. Joining Jay to offer their best advice are chefs, cooks and food writers Melissa Thompson, Sophie Wright and Shelina Permalloo, alongside resident food historian Dr Annie Gray. Jay welcomes local fishmonger, Sonny Elliot from Rock-A-Nor Fisheries to give a flavour of the local fish while the panel suggest uses for a bottle of advocaat and tackle one of the trickiest of questions… is life too short to peel a pineapple? Also, with the Battle of Hastings serving as inspiration, they turn their taste buds to Normandy, and in particular, the delicious cream produced in the region.
Producer: Dominic Tyerman Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it. |
| 0:13.3 | But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go? |
| 0:19.2 | I remember having this very sharp thought |
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| 0:40.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet this week from |
| 0:47.0 | England's pebble-bejeweled South Coast in Hastings as we enter our 50th series of the show, |
| 0:52.9 | a golden anniversary of sorts. Crikey. Joining me today are a group of chefs, cooks and food writers made of equally precious stuff. It's Melissa Thompson, Shalina Purmolu, and Sophie Wright, and alongside them, a treasured artifact from our very first show living each day as if it's the past. It's our food historian Dr. Annie Gray. Ladies and gentlemen, |
| 1:12.2 | your kitchen cabinet panel. Let's take our first question from Angela Hicks from Bexhill. |
| 1:21.4 | I have tried to make my own pasta, but why does it always go grey and horrible looking? |
| 1:26.8 | So, Angela, we're here to help. |
| 1:30.5 | Are you using your own pasta machine or are you rolling? What's going on? |
| 1:34.7 | I'm rolling, but then I try and put it through the pasta machine. |
| 1:37.5 | So you've got a pasta machine, isn't it? Yeah, I have. |
| 1:39.1 | All right, I'm going to now pass you over to Shalina Permaloo for some more detailed questions and suggestions. |
| 1:43.8 | I need to know how you're making your pasta in the first instance. Just flour and eggs. In a bowl or a... In a bowl? In a bowl? I'm doing it by hand, yeah. Okay, so the first thing I think, is it grey when it comes out of the bowl? No. So it's grey when it goes through the pasta machine. Yeah. And then when I've made it, it goes all grey. |
| 2:02.7 | Sorry? |
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