Hoovering - Episode 45: Zoe Adjonyoh
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.
This week my guest is the brilliant Zoe Adjonyoh of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen fame. You’ve probs seen her cooking up a storm on Sunday Kitchen or similar. She makes us one if the most glorious meals I’ve ever had made up of Ghanian staples twisted and reimagined - just total and utter heaven. We are meeting specifically because we are both ambassadors for an amazing charity appeal this winter by AFRIKIDS which is called TIME TO SHINE - we implore you to give generously. Every donation they get until 4th March 2019 - the government have agreed to match because the work they’re doing is so important and so urgent. They’re a brilliant, clever charity with the long term picture in mind. Please click the bits in capitals to link to their site.
Recipes
It’s not my place to publish Zoe’s recipes without her consent but you should totally BUY HER BOOK! It’s called ZOE’S GHANA KITCHEN and I’ve already got three copies in as Christmas presents. Also if you become a patron of the podcast I’ll be asking her for a recipe for my January edition of ‘Guest Recipes’ - of course.
Honourable Mentions
DONATE TO AFRIKIDS TIME TO SHINE HERE
This is the HACKNEY WICKED Arts Festival
HERE is an article about Zoe where she mentions Chef Binter
This is MAGGIES in Lewisham - great for bottomless strong tea, an omelette or a jacket spud
African Food Forum - Sankofa - Coming soon in March 2019!
My last show THE SILENCE OF THE NANS is on Next Up
The amazing Italian in Honour Oak is called LA QUERCE
OH, And
If you have got a any spare dosh to give a month I’m on this great site called Patreon where I exchange for rewards including exclusive content for your hard earned cash which means I can keep doing and improving the podcast. Click on the word Patreon, either of them
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as |
| 0:25.3 | anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other |
| 0:31.6 | things that are rubbish. It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, Hoover. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello, I hope you well, please. Thanks for listening to Hoovering. It's a special episode this week because you'll be relieved to know, |
| 0:55.1 | I'm not going to blather on now, begging you to spread the word about this podcast, or come to |
| 0:59.7 | live shows, or become my patron because this episode is, instead, all about an incredible |
| 1:06.6 | charity appeal. In this episode, I'm feasting and talking to the incredible Zoe Adjogne, |
| 1:12.1 | who I'm sure you'll know off Sunday brunch and a million other things. Her star is seriously ascending |
| 1:17.5 | and she's so lovely and so talented. The food she made us was mouth and heart, glowingly beautiful. |
| 1:24.8 | We met because we're both ambassadors for this campaign. |
| 1:27.9 | In brief, it's from a brilliant development charity called AfriKids, and the appeal is called |
| 1:33.0 | Time to Shine. |
| 1:34.5 | The end game of the appeal is to hugely increase the number of kids in Ghana getting a basic |
| 1:39.4 | education. |
| 1:40.4 | At the moment, over 65% don't, because they either can't afford the books or the uniform, |
| 1:45.8 | or just because their kids need to be working, |
| 1:48.7 | because they're trying to live off £1.50 a week for the whole family. |
| 1:52.0 | It's ludicrous. |
| 1:53.9 | And Africans have knocked it out the park by securing a thing called UK aid match, |
| 1:58.2 | which means that between now and the 4th of March, |
| 2:02.4 | every single penny that they make from UK donations will be matched by our government, our government, coughing |
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