Huntingdon
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and a panel of expert chefs and writers are in Huntingdon sharing their top tips with an audience of keen home cooks. Joining Jay are Andi Oliver, Jocky Petrie, Melek Erdal and food historian Dr Annie Gray.
The panellists discuss what to do with a glut of super hot chillis, recipes involving fruit and meat pairings, and the best way to cook an egg. They also chat about what makes a great dining experience, the best sauce to have on a doner kebab, and the food they would most like to ban.
Situated in Huntingdon, home of the Huntingdon fidget pie, Jay stops to chat to Emma Talic of Measures Butchers about the history of the fidget pie and her favourite pie filling combos.
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| 0:40.6 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet, the food programme that offers tips, recipes and |
| 0:44.6 | history while feeding a live audience enough answers to leave them completely stuffed. |
| 0:49.1 | This week we've come to Huntingdon a place so important that it's been the home to not one, |
| 0:53.5 | but two former |
| 0:54.4 | British leaders. |
| 0:55.2 | We'll talk about one of them later, try to guess which. |
| 0:58.0 | Joining me are culinary law protectors, chefs and food writers, James Jockey Petrie, Andy Oliver |
| 1:03.1 | and Melik Erdle, and always head at the cabinet table. |
| 1:05.7 | It's our food historian, Dr. Annie Gray. |
| 1:07.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. in Dr. Annie Gray. Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. As well as being the constituency home of former Prime Minister John Major, |
| 1:21.2 | that's one national leader. |
| 1:22.6 | Huntingdon, of course, is the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, |
| 1:25.9 | a man so grumpy about Christmas, he famously banned |
| 1:28.9 | all sorts of festive treats from Yule Logs to Christmas puddings, didn't he, Annie? |
| 1:33.1 | No. |
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