Milton Keynes
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and a panel of expert chefs, cooks and food writers are in Milton Keynes sharing their top tricks and recipes with an audience of home cooks.
Joining Jay to discuss barbecued desserts and paneer recipes are baker and writer Nadiya Hussain, food historian Dr Annie Gray, writer Tim Hayward, and chef Sophie Wright.
The panellists discuss what they’d serve at a roadside food truck and their favourite recipes involving medjool dates, and debate whether brioche buns belong on burgers. They also suggest ways to use up leftover sourdough and share their ultimate recipes for a steak sandwich.
Jay stops to chat to Alain Vivion of Brioche Pasquier about the history, method and flavour of traditional brioche.
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| 0:26.5 | podcasts welcome to the kitchen cabinet we're coming to you today from Milton |
| 0:32.1 | Keens in Buckinghamshire city famed for its modernist architecture but don't let the |
| 0:36.2 | clean lines fool you because the |
| 0:38.1 | area has a rich history. It was here that John Newton, once a sailor and slave trader, found redemption |
| 0:43.4 | and wrote Amazing Grace. Then there's nearby Bletchley Park, the wartime HQ of the intellectual |
| 0:48.6 | titans who cracked the Enigma Code. And more recently, a Milton Keynes takeaway hit the headlines |
| 0:53.8 | where musician Snoop Dog |
| 0:55.1 | ordered a £3,000 takeaway to a London club. A limousine delivered the order 57 miles, |
| 1:00.7 | proving that whether you're a rap legend or just a local with a food craving, Milton |
| 1:04.1 | Keens delivers as long as the driver can successfully navigate its 130 roundabouts. |
| 1:11.4 | With me today as a group of people always happy to go round and round on the subject, |
| 1:15.5 | its chefs and authors Nadia Hussein and Sophie Wright, food writer and restaurateur Tim Hayward, |
| 1:20.1 | and our resident food historian Dr. Annie Gray. |
| 1:22.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, your TKC panel. |
| 1:24.4 | Thank you. your TKC panel. |
| 1:35.1 | Now for many, Milton Kean's many roundabouts, |
| 1:36.1 | a lesser road system, |
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