S1: Rukmini Iyer: Author of The Roasting Tin cookbooks and food stylist

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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My guest today is Rukmini Iyer Rukmini is a former lawyer turned bestselling author of the Roasting Tin series which have now sold over half a million copies. Amongst her army of followers – who call themselves the TinLads. She counts Nigella Lawson as a fan as well as other famous names from Jay Rayner to Judy Murray. The concept of the Roasting Tin books is deceptively simple, Mini’s recipes lure people in with the idea of the one-pot supper. But people return time and time again because the recipes taste even better than the lack of washing up feels. A pioneer of the _and I quote: ‘put everything in a roasting tin and shove it in the oven’ school of cookery, Mini’s fourth cookbook features tasty, no-fuss dishes from across the globe. As well as writing cookbooks, Rukmini styles and writes recipes for numerous brands and publications, including Waitrose, The Guardian and Fortnum and Mason. Of her success and the reaction to her books, Mini says – ‘It’s one thing having fans who are like, "this is great for dinner", but to have fans who are saying that you’ve changed the way they eat is very humbling,’ ‘You never think that something like a cookbook could have that much effect on someone’.

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1:13.6	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. This is the podcast
1:19.6	where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes. These range from
1:26.0	finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their
1:28.2	childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat
1:34.1	before being cast off to the desert island. Happy New Year, not the start of the year that we all
1:40.7	wished for, but I hope you're all very well nonetheless and keeping safe.
1:45.0	This week on the podcast, I talked to Rook Minnie, author of the Roostington cookbooks, and one of
1:50.6	the most successful cookery writers of all time. The story of how she got to where she is today
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