Rachel Khoo
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Khoo is a cook, writer and TV presenter, who first rose to fame with her bestselling cookbook, The Little Paris Kitchen, a collection of recipes tested from her little Paris kitchen!
The book was soon developed into her first TV series, and Rachel quickly became known by food lovers the world over, with several cookbooks and TV series that followed.
Now, she lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and two children, and it’s this new beginning that’s served as the inspiration for her latest project, The Little Swedish Kitchen.
Destination recap:
- Austrian border
- Lech, Austria
- Paris, France
- Tokyo, Japan
- Sydney, Australia
- Little Brothers Bakery - Stockholm, Sweden
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Brazil
- Cornwall, England
You can watch Rachel Khoo: My Swedish Kitchen on Thursdays at 9pm and 9.30pm on Food Network.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a journalist and editor. And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel experiences |
| 0:23.0 | and destinations that have shaped their lives. Today I'm joined by Rachel Coon. Rachel is a cook, |
| 0:31.1 | writer and TV presenter who first rose to fame with her best-selling cookbook, The Little |
| 0:36.0 | Paris Kitchen, a collection of recipes |
| 0:38.3 | tested from her Little Paris Kitchen. The book was soon developed into her first TV series, |
| 0:44.6 | and Rachel quickly became known by food lovers the world over with several cookbooks and TV |
| 0:49.7 | series that followed. Now she lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and two children. And it's this |
| 0:56.6 | new beginning that served as the inspiration for her latest project, The Little Swedish Kitchen. |
| 1:02.8 | Rachel has lived a truly international life and her travel diaries really reflect that. So I hope you |
| 1:09.5 | enjoy it. Let's hear now from Rachel Koo. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm with the wonderful Rachel Koo in her glorious house. Welcome to the Travel Diaries. Thank you so much for |
| 1:26.1 | being here. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you. |
| 1:28.6 | We're going to go on a journey through the eight chapters of your life's travel diaries. |
| 1:33.8 | And I feel like chapter one, your earliest childhood travel memory, is going to be a really good |
| 1:39.4 | context for what's to come because I feel like your childhood and your upbringing was really international. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, it certainly was because my dad's from Malaysia. |
| 1:49.8 | My mom's from Austria. |
| 1:51.4 | I was born in the UK. |
| 1:53.4 | So one of them was a primary school age going camping in Cornwall in a caravan. |
| 2:00.5 | And then my first trip to Malaysia when I was |
| 2:04.5 | also similar age seven or eight. And I remember we went at Christmas. It was very hot and humid. And my |
| 2:11.3 | relatives roasted a whole suckling pig on, you know, when they turn so it was on the whole on a spit roast so i |
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