Niki Segnit: Author of the Best Selling and Beloved Flavour Thesaurus and the brand new book Lateral Cooking
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Niki Segnit.
Niki is the author of two books: the first being the Flavour Thesaurus which has sold more than 250,000 copies and has been translated into 14 languages which is just amazing.
Her latest book is Lateral Cooking which I’m sure is going to follow in the foot steps of her first and it’s already received rave reviews.
Niki counts Heston Blumenthal, Nigel Slater and Ottolenghi as fans and according to an article I found online – Kate Winslet too.
The Sunday Times said of Niki’s first book:
The Flavour Thesaurus is a deceptively simple little masterpiece, set to take its place by McGee on Food and Cooking as a household Bible.'
It really is that good: find Niki’s books here (https://amzn.to/2qlbZfd) and here (https://amzn.to/2PB6OG8)
If you’ve been following me on Instagram for a while, you will definitely have heard me banging on about the Flavour Thesaurus – it’s such an amazing book and my copy is very well thumbed – and so I was giddy with excitement to meet Niki and talk all things flavour. Get ready to hear me being a proper fan girl!
This is your friendly little reminder and request to ask you to leave a little 5* rating and maybe even a review if you fancy it as it really makes me so happy reading them and more importantly it helps others to find the podcast which is obviously great. Thank you so much!
Come and find me on Instagram @margienomura where you can probably find me cooking something for a fridge forage or nosing through supermarket trolleys and fridges – just in constant search for food inspiration and finding out what people are eating! I love it!
As always head to the website www.desertislanddishes.co for lots of recipes and that’s all from me for now,
Thank you for listening! Bye
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Margie and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island dishes. |
| 0:12.0 | These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before being |
| 0:22.5 | cast off the desert island this is your friendly little reminder and request to ask you to leave |
| 0:29.1 | a little five-star rating and maybe even a review if you fancy it as it really makes me so happy |
| 0:35.9 | reading them and more importantly it helps others to find the podcast, which is obviously great. |
| 0:41.7 | So thank you so much. |
| 0:43.1 | I hope you're all well and that you're having a lovely week. |
| 0:46.2 | If you follow me on Instagram, which you really should, you'll find me at Margie Nomura. |
| 0:51.6 | You'll definitely have heard me banging on about the flavor |
| 0:54.3 | thesaurus. It's such an amazing book and my copy is well-thumbed. So I was giddy with |
| 1:00.3 | excitement to meet Nikki and talk all things flavor. Get ready to hear me being a proper fan girl. |
| 1:07.1 | Here we go. My guest today is Nikki Segnit. |
| 1:13.3 | Nikki is the author of two books, the first being The Flavor Thesaurus, which has sold more than 250,000 copies and has been translated into 14 languages, which is just amazing. |
| 1:25.6 | Her latest book is Lateral Cooking, which I'm sure is going to follow in |
| 1:29.3 | the footsteps of her first, and it's already received rave reviews. Nikki counts Heston Blumenthal, |
| 1:35.8 | Nigel, Slater, and Otolengie as fans, and according to an article I found online, Kate Winslet, |
| 1:42.0 | too. The Sunday Times said of Nikki's first book, The Flavor Thesaurus |
| 1:46.4 | is a deceptively simple little masterpiece set to take its place by McGee on food and cooking |
| 1:52.2 | as a household Bible. Welcome, Nikki. Hello, thank you very much. So Nikki, in the interest |
| 1:59.0 | of full disclosure, I do have to tell you that the |
| 2:01.9 | flavour thesaurus is my all-time favorite cookbook, and I should probably play it way cooler than |
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