Margate
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel are in Margate answering questions from an audience of hungry home cooks.
Joining Jay are chefs, cooks and food writers, Maria Bradford, Jeremy Pang, Rob Owen Brown and Melek Erdal.
The panellists discuss budget meals for four, ideas for savoury donut fillings, and the question that every home cook has ponderedn- do we really need to salt water for pasta?
Jay welcomes local co-founder of the Margate Crab Museum, Chase Coley to discuss why crabs have fascinated the public for so long and how the renaming of the British Spider Crab intends to shift perceptions and create an appetite for more local produce.
Executive Producer: Ollie Wilson Producer: Matt Smith Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:38.4 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet. This week we've come to a place where people like to think, |
| 0:43.4 | make and stare at the sea a bit longer than originally planned. Yes, we're in Margate in Kent. |
| 0:48.3 | Artist, writers and musicians have all been drawn here over the years. Van Gogh passed through. |
| 0:52.8 | T.S. Eliot sat on Margate Sands in 1921, |
| 0:55.6 | and Tracy E.N. calls Margate her home and workplace, her TK.E. Studios being based just a short walk |
| 1:01.4 | from where we are today at our cultural space. Food has always been part of the draw here, too. |
| 1:06.8 | This is a seaside town that knows how to eat well from old school cafes and fish and chips by the shore |
| 1:11.8 | to restaurants that pull in chefs from across the UK. |
| 1:15.1 | Local seafood, Kentish produce, long lunches that turn into dinners, |
| 1:18.7 | breakfast that stretch late into the morning, it's all here. |
| 1:21.9 | Joining me to revel in all of this are chefs and food writers Rob Owen Brown, |
| 1:25.8 | Melek Erdle and Jeremyeremy pang and making her |
| 1:28.0 | tkc debut it's maria bradford ladies and gentlemen your kitchen cabinet panel |
| 1:32.1 | you're originally from sierra liu Before we go on, a quick welcome to our newbie, Maria. |
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