Newbury

The Kitchen Cabinet

BBC

Arts, Food

4.6 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jay Rayner and the expert panel are in Newbury, Berkshire, where an eager audience of food lovers are ready with their culinary questions.

This week the panellists serve up fresh ideas for broccoli-based dishes and ingenious ways of cooking rabbit. They share creative uses for a glut of dill, and explore safe, accessible alternatives to traditional kitchen knives.

Joining Jay at the table are chefs, cooks and food writers Lerato Umah-Shaylor, Tim Anderson, Melissa Thompson and Jordan Bourke.

Senior Producer: Dom Tyerman Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if you do say so ourselves. I agree 100% of that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet.
0:39.0	This week, we're in the market town of Newbury in the heart of rural Berkshire.
0:42.7	In the mid-90s to us outsiders, it became famous for the controversy surrounding the road that bypasses it, rather than the lovely historic centre itself.
0:51.7	Thankfully, though, we've navigated our way in and received a warm
0:54.8	Newberry welcome to boot. It's great to be here. Making a bee line straight to the heart of town with me
0:59.5	today are chefs cooks and food writers, Melissa Thompson, Tim Hayward, Larata Umasheila and
1:04.5	Jordan Burke. Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. Now, the tunnel digging protests against the construction of the Newbury Bypass gained national attention at the time,
1:20.2	with activists Swampy emerging as a well-known figurehead for the movement.
1:23.2	So, panel, what I'd like to know is, which food trend or fad would you be willing to go to great lengths to protest against? Melissa Thompson.
1:32.2	Do you know what? I would go for all food trends. I'm partial to a bit of social media, which means that I am subjected to, at the moment, it's pistachio and matcha.
1:41.9	These trends have caused massive shortages of both of those things and everyone
1:46.2	presents it like they've invented it and it's like there are millions of videos of people doing exactly
1:51.3	the same thing and there is nothing like a food trend to put you off that food so all of them for me
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