Stockport
The Kitchen Cabinet
BBC
4.6 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jay Rayner and the panel are at the Forum Theatre in Stockport answering the questions from a keen audience of home cooks. Joining Jay are chefs, cooks and food writers, Angela Gray, Sarah Rankin, Nisha Katona and Rob Owen Brown.
The panellists discuss how to use orange in savoury dishes, the best uses for leftover celery, and the question on everyone's mind - should orange juice be with bits or smooth?
Jay chats to chef and founder of local Cambodian restaurant, Y Sok about the flavours, techniques and importance of fish sauce in Cambodian cookery.
Producer: Dulcie Whadcock Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:38.3 | Hello and welcome to the kitchen cabinet this week. |
| 0:41.2 | We're at the Forum Theatre in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, a place where the |
| 0:44.9 | Mersey begins and Cheshire ends. |
| 0:46.9 | Crowned Greater Manchester's Town of Culture in 2023, Stockport boasts many standout attractions. |
| 0:52.6 | Here you will find a 27 arch viaduct, a grade one listed Tudor Manor and a 120-foot-tall structure called the Stockport Pyramid, which has nothing to do with Egyptian ingenuity but is home to one of the largest Indian restaurants in the UK. Best of all, Stockport is home to the UK's only hat museum built in honour of the area's rich |
| 1:12.5 | hat making history what began in the 17th century as a humble craft became stockport's leading |
| 1:18.5 | industry which at its height saw the town produce six million hats per year joining me to reveal |
| 1:24.9 | what's under theirs are cooks and food writers angela, Sarah Rankin and Nisha Cotona, |
| 1:29.8 | and with them a man with a feather in his trilby and a bee in his bonnet, it's Robert Owen Brown. |
| 1:34.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, your kitchen cabinet panel. |
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