Jay Rayner

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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How do you go from being a young sex columnist to a nationally acclaimed restaurant reviewer? Food writer, broadcaster, jazz pianist and egg fanatic Jay Rayner is here. If you have even a passing interest in anything foodie, there’s so much in here for you. New ways of loving tinned fish, the dark arts of restaurant reviewing, and a noble attempt by Russell to convert Jay into a football fan. Did he leave wearing a scarf and hat munching on a balti pie? You’ll have to listen to find out. Jay is now reviewing restaurants for the Financial Times, so you can find those in print or online every week. As Jay mentions on the podcast, his latest book Nights Out At Home is out now at all good independent bookshops, and there’s a few live tour dates to go with it. 📖 Buy the book here… 📖 🎤 Find out about the tour dates and book tickets here… 🎤 🍾 Oh, and Jay mentioned his favourite food magazine Noble Rot - you can check that out here. 🍾 🇺🇸 And if you happen to be in the United States right now, then why don’t you treat yourself and get along to one of Russell’s shows! He’s doing a brief tour of some cities in America that he hasn’t played for a while - check out where he be and get those tickets by going to russell-howard.co.uk 🇺🇸 If you’re enjoying this podcastness and you want it even podcastier, as in no adverts, an exclusive extra show every week that you help to make, and getting it all a day early… all for less than the cost of one sandwich a month… then click here to find out more. Thanks for being a passenger on another flight here with Five Brilliant Things Air. We hope you have had a pleasant crossing, please leave your seatbelts fastened until the podcast has come to a complete standstill. The local time is (inaudible) and the weather is drizzly but should brighten up later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.8	Hello and welcome to the show.
0:40.2	On today's show, we've got one of Britain's best love food writers.
0:43.2	He's a restaurant critic, he's a jazz pianist, and he really loves eggs.
0:47.5	It's Jay Rainer, and these are his five brilliant things.
0:57.0	How are you? It's a lovely day.
0:59.0	I know, it's a lovely day. We are a short train ride from my home in South London.
1:04.0	Nice.
1:05.0	Always appreciative.
1:06.0	And did you eat magnificently last night?
1:12.3	I did actually.
1:16.7	So I present a radio four show called The Kitchen Cabinet,
1:19.1	which is kind of food panel show,
1:22.0	and our panellists are all cooks or food writers.
1:23.2	They're not the usual suspects.
1:26.4	They're not the people you regularly see turning up on the food shows. And one of them,
1:26.9	Melissa Thompson was doing a pop-up to raise funds for the PTA of her school her kids
1:32.7	school in a restaurant in Peckham so a bunch of us from the kitchen cabinet went so it was
1:38.0	her curry fried chicken Horacea lamb it was good that feels good straight away isn't it
1:43.4	was good yeah it's sort of heart straight away. It was good. Yeah.
2:01.6	Sort of hearty. Yeah. Yeah. Difficult to only have one plate of that. Have you ever done that? Have you ever sort of said, look, I'm doing a review. Can I have an extra a plate of that? No. Because I don't walk in and say I'm doing a review. I don't book under my own name. They don't know I'm coming.
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