S1: Romy Gill MBE: Chef, Food Writer and Restaurateur

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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My guest today is Romy Gill MBE Romy is an award winning self-taught British-Indian chef and food writer and broadcaster. She has written for publications including the guardian, the telegraph and the evening standard. She’s a regular on TV with her appearances as guest judge on Celebrity Masterchef. She is a judge on the BBC’s food and farming awards and in 2016 she was awarded an MBE in the Queens 90th birthday honours list.

Romy’s style of Indian cooking combines Indian and British cuisine; she combines spices and flavours that she grew up with in India, with ingredients that she was only introduced to when she moved to the UK. She started her cooking career with supperclubs, spices, sauces and chutneys and then she went on to open her own restaurant - Romy’s Kitchen in South Gloucestershire. She released her first cookbook last year and is now amongst many other things a chef on the new adaptation of Ready Steady Cook.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
0:11.6	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
0:17.5	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
0:22.0	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before
0:27.5	being cast off to the Desert Island. I hope you're all well and had as happier Christmas
0:32.8	as you could, given the circumstances. If you're listening to this on the day it comes out, then it's
0:38.9	New Year's Eve, and the end of 2020 is in sight, the year that we will never forget. So to warm
0:45.6	your cockles, I have the wonderful Romy Gill for you. Romie and I have been talking about doing this
0:50.8	basically since I started the podcast, and so it was brilliant to get to sit down
0:55.5	with her and record this socially distance about a month or so ago when we were allowed to do that.
1:02.5	So without further ado, here is today's episode.
1:07.0	My guest today is Romy Gill MBE.
1:10.6	Romy is an award-winning self-taught British Indian chef, food writer and broadcaster.
1:16.5	She is written for publications, including The Guardian, the Telegraph and the Evening Standard.
1:21.6	She's a regular on TV with her appearances as guest judge on celebrity master chef.
1:26.5	She's a judge on the BBC's Food and Farming
1:28.7	Awards and in 2016, she was awarded an MBE in the Queen's 90th birthday honors list. Romi's style
1:35.8	of Indian cooking combines Indian and British cuisine. She combines spices and flavors that she grew up
1:41.0	with in India, with ingredients that she was only introduced to when
1:44.3	she moved to the UK. She started her cooking career with supper clubs, spices, sauces, and
1:49.2	chutneys, and then went on to open her own restaurant, Romy's Kitchen in South Gloucestershire.
1:54.3	She released her first cookbook last year and is now, amongst many other things, a chef on
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