Tom Kerridge
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by the much loved chef, restauranteur and TV presenter, Tom Kerridge.
Tom’s worked in food since he was 18 years old, but he rose to fame when his pub in Buckinghamshire, The Hand and Flowers, went on to become the only pub in Britain with two Michelin stars. I, like many, got to know and love him on the BBC’s Great British Menu show, where he was the first chef to cook at the banquet two years in a row and he’s since gone on to release several best selling cook books and many popular TV shows. More recently, he’s made headlines with his dramatic 12 stone weight loss. As well as chatting a bit about that, Tom takes us on a journey across the UK, Europe, Asia and the US with his travel diaries, and lots of foodie recommendations along the way.
This is what I call a “long haul” episode - you’re getting a bit more this week because Tom is so lovely and we just couldn’t stop chatting. I hope you’ll really enjoy it.
Destination recap:
- Isle of Wight, England
- Ostend, Belgium
- Agistri, Greece
- Crete, Greece
- Paphos, Cyprus
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- New York, USA
- North Kent coast, England
- Whitstable, England
- The Good Shed, Canterbury, England
- The Fordwich Arms, Canterbury, England
- The Compasses Inn, Crundale
- The Sportsman, Seasalter
- Lapland
- India
- Japan
Tom’s new book, Lose Weight and Get Fit, is out now, and you can watch the accompanying BBC 2 series on Wednesday nights at 8.30pm.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel journalist and editor. |
| 0:13.3 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations that have |
| 0:22.4 | shaped their lives. Today I'm joined by the much-loved chef-restraunteer and TV presenter Tom Kerridge. |
| 0:30.0 | Tom's worked in food since he was 18 years old, but he rose to fame when his pub in Buckingham |
| 0:35.1 | shire, the Handen Flowers, went on to become the only |
| 0:38.0 | pub in Britain with two Michelin stars. I, like many, got to know and love him on the BBC's |
| 0:43.5 | Great British Meny show, where he was the first chef to cook at the banquet two years in a row, |
| 0:48.1 | and he's since gone on to release several best-selling cookbooks and many popular TV shows. |
| 0:53.5 | More recently, he's made headlines with his dramatic 12-stone weight loss. |
| 0:57.6 | As well as chatting a bit about that, Tom takes us on a journey across the UK, Europe, Asia and the US with his travel diaries and lots of foodie recommendations along the way. |
| 1:09.0 | This is what I call a long haul episode. |
| 1:11.2 | You're getting a bit more this week because Tom is so lovely and we just couldn't |
| 1:14.6 | stop chatting and I hope you'll really enjoy it. |
| 1:17.2 | So let's hear from Tom Carriage. |
| 1:21.9 | Tom Carriage, welcome to The Travel Diaries. |
| 1:25.5 | Thank you so much for being here. How are you? |
| 1:27.5 | I'm very well, thanks, mate. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:29.5 | I imagine that your life has involved a huge amount of travel. So I'm really excited to hear about some of the places you've been. |
| 1:36.5 | But actually, let's start at the very beginning, first of all. And that's chapter one, which is your earliest childhood travel memory. |
| 1:47.6 | So it's quite weird because it's within this country but it was kind so i grew up um single parent family it was just my mom and myself |
| 1:54.4 | and my brother so she was kind of like bringing up two kids and everyone else in and around the |
| 2:00.4 | area where we lived would get on holiday and they would |
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