S14 Ep33: Zena Kamgaing on how she's only eaten her favourite sandwich once in the last 10 years, how her cooking has evolved and getting her big break with Jamie Oliver.

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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My guest today is Zena Kamgaing. Zena describes herself as a passionate home-chef, recipe creator and food enthusiast.

Before going full time as a freelance recipe creator, She worked for a charity and ran their anti human trafficking initiative, worked for a food media company as head of ops before working at Mob kitchen – the food media platform. Zena burst onto the food creator scene when she appeared on Jamie Oliver’s Cook Book Challenge and since then her career has gone from strength to strength. She has since appeared on Lorraine, has garnered a huge online following and this seems to be just the start.

Thank you very much to our sponsor for today's episode, Nestlé Carnation. Head to their website for a whole load of recipe inspiration: https://www.carnation.co.uk

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And thank you to my brilliant producer Georgie for all your help as always. https://www.rutherfordproductions.co.uk

Thank you for listening!

Margie x

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1:45.7	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:50.9	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
1:57.0	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
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