Hi, this is Mimi Sheraton, author of A Thousand Foods to Eat Before You Die,

and you are listening to Radio Cherry Bomb.

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Whole world's chicken, drinking, baby, and to Hi, everybody, welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb. I'm Carrie Diamond, editorial director of Cherry Bomb, the indie magazine about women and food.

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to enter. So today's first guest is an old friend of cherry bombs, even though she's only 21 years old.

Izzy Hossack is the founder of the popular UK blog Top With Cinnamon, which she started when

she was a high school student in London.

Her first book came out in 2014, and her second cookbook is out right now, called The Savvy Cook. It's All About Maximum Flavor with Minimum Effort and Not Breaking the Bank. And she is here to tell us all about it. Izzy Hossack, welcome to Radio Cherry Bomb. Hi, thank you for having me. How are you? A long time I'm C, babe. I'm good, thanks. How are you?

It's been a while.

I've been, I don't know, I've done a lot of living in the past few years since I've seen you. I'm sure you have too. Yeah. You're in college now. When I saw you, you were just wrapping up high school, I think, right? Yeah, I was in my gap here, I think, the last time I saw you.

So, yeah, it's been two years now, and I've got one more year left of uni left, and then I'm done. It's funny, when I was reading, I don't know, whatever you wrote somewhere on social media, and you said uni, I was like, uni, I was like, she's eating uni? And I was like, no, she's talking about college. Yeah.

Yeah. How are you finding college? It's good. It's difficult. But yeah, I'm enjoying it. I'm really enjoying my course. It's interesting. I'm doing food science and nutrition. So it's still

food based. So yeah, very interesting. Have you made friends? Yes, I have. That's always important.'s always important yeah yeah in a way it's more

important than what you study or the grades you get yeah i think it's the friends you make and the uh

experience yeah definitely absolutely um how has studying nutrition and food science changed what you do on the blog?

Well, at the beginning, I thought that it would make me kind of less likely to post things about like baking and whatever, because I thought, you know, people will see me as a nutritionist.

Ice cream sandwiches. I saw that on your Instagram.

Always, yeah. So I thought that they would be like, oh, she's a nutritionist. Why is she still making

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