Dan is an award winning wine writer, magazine editor and restaurateur

He is the Co founder of Noble Rot named for the fungus that shrivels and sweeten grapes which began life as a cult food, wine and popular culture magazine. The magazine created a space that is as informative as it is witty and serves up wine with alongside sides of life and culture. The brand has since expanded to two award winning restaurants  and a wine shop Shrine to the Vine.

Dan has won numerous awards for his writing about wine and food and has written for the Financial Times, The Spectator and Melody Maker. Before Noble Rot Dan was previously managing director of Island Records. He was the one who found and signed Coldplay who then went on to sell 5 million copies of their debut album.

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Shivi has been dubbed by The Guardian as the “Caribbean Food Supremo”, and it has been said she is the "Queen of Contemporary Caribbean Cooking". She is a food writer, cookbook author, TV chef and presenter. She was born in Trinidad but was brought up between there, New York, the English countryside and London. This diverse upbringing has really influenced her style of cooking. She says her culinary mission is to twist classic Caribbean dishes and make them into her own vibrant, fresh and easy to make recipes. 

She’s had a fascinating career - Starting out as singer / songwriter – training as a lawyer before going on Masterchef and turning her dream of working in food into a reality. She’s now written three cookbooks, and can regularly be found cooking on TV. She is a regular guest on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and has previously hosted the show as well as a regular on ITV’s This Morning.

She has just released her third cookbook, Cook Clever. 

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Jesse, known online as ADIP has taken the food world by storm with his cinematic cooking videos which have been wracking up millions of views. Despite only starting his social media last year he has already amassed several hundreds of thousands of avid fans and followers. 

Jesse grew up in LA combining working in a professional kitchen with life as a sponsored skateboarder. He then came to the UK and spent a very successful decade working as a fashion photographer and director, shooting campaigns for the likes of Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham.  

But it was always food that was his true passion. Inspired by the people he has cooked for and alongside over the years, his food is in his own words, “fresh, fast and a bit filthy, with a laid-back American vibe - perfect for sharing”. His videos too, have echoes of his former life on a skateboard.

He now works as a chef alongside Jackson Boxer at his restaurant and In addition he has his own very successful series supperclubs at Carousel London, so it truly is a very exciting time to be sitting down and talking to him. 

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Singer and songwriter Jack Savoretti is described in pretty much every interview I came across as both extremely talented and also very charming perhaps it is this combination that has led to Jack’s stellar career. He tells us of his idyllic childhood Summers spent in the Italian Riviera, why he's grateful that his success didn't happen overnight and reveals a surprising yet delicious final desert island dish.

Jack's one of the most successful singer / songwriters in the UK and has collaborated with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Bob Dylan and Nile Rogers and performed to a sold out Wembley Arena. He had an international upbringing, with an Italian father and a German-Polish mother, moving from London to Switzerland, and spending idyllic childhood summers in Portofino, Italy, where his father’s family come from.

After falling in love with music at the age of 15 it was a somewhat slow-burning rise to fame for Jack as a musician. He toured the UK for several years, quietly growing his fanbase and it was his sixth album, Singing to Strangers, that finally hit the number one spot. His most recent record, the gorgeous sun-soaked, feel good and star-studded Europiana – inspired by his European upbringing and life –was also a chart-topper and arguably his best work to date.

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Dawn O'Porter is an author, broadcaster, writer, podcaster and journalist. 

Having trained at drama school, Dawn become a TV presenter, rising to fame with her critically acclaimed BBC documentary Super Slim Me. Many more TV shows followed and in 2013 began a new passion for Dawn as she began writing more seriously and started a new chapter of her career. She released her first novel which got shortlisted for the Waterstone’s children book prize, more books followed - she’s now written 7 and she has continued to have huge writing success as a Sunday Times Bestseller. 

Dawn lives in Los Angeles with her movie star husband, two young sons and her dog Potato.

Dawn has said 

“I love food. I realise that’s a basic statement and might not sound like it warrants a whole load of page-time but for me it does. Food is the great passion and pleasure of my life. Reading cookbooks, shopping for ingredients, spending hours in the kitchen, making it, serving it and then eating it. Brilliant”

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Julius Roberts is a first generation millennial farmer and rising star of the food scene. 

In 2016 he gave up working at the acclaimed restaurant Noble Rot in London - and swapped the rat race for an idyllic life of pigs, goats and chickens instead.

His first foray into farming was a small-holding in rural Suffolk and then last year he moved with his family to a farm in Dorset. 

His charm and humble approach to life on the farm have seen him amass an army of followers online as he shares the trials and tribulations of farm life alongside his menagerie of animals. Julius describes himself as a cook, farmer and gardener on a journey to self-sufficiency.

Julius says his his aim is simple – "to educate his audience on topics including animal welfare and seasonal cooking".

This was a lovely episode to record and I do hope you enjoy listening whether for the first time or again.

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Hello! We are very nearly back with our new season! Currently recording the next season as we speak so in anticipation of our imminent return I thought it would be fun to release a few golden oldies from the archives for you to enjoy. This week is with the wonderful Dolly Alderton.

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If you've not heard this episode before I hope you enjoy and if you have, I hope a trip down memory lane will be be a lovely way to start the week.

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Hello lovely listeners!

We are back! Well, nearly back! Currently recording the next season as we speak so in anticipation of our imminent return I thought it would be fun to release a few golden oldies from the archives for you to enjoy.

Thank you for sticking with me during my quiet season, but promise we are back for good and really really excited for all that’s in store for Desert Island Dishes. You are a big reason for the success of this podcast and every time you share it on social media or with your email list or tell your friends about it, it helps it to grow and helps me to keep brining it to you. So thank you thank you!

And I thought it would be appropriate to kick off with one of our most popular episodes to date… with the one and only Stanley Tucci, still pinching myself really that I got to go to his house and sit in his amazing artists studio at the bottom of his garden and talk all things food with him. He is everything you imagine he would be. Enjoy!

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My guest today is Sally Clarke

Sally has been described as the unsung hero of British food, and her cooking a masterclass in simplicity. She was just 14 when she envisaged the restaurant that she would one day open and this year Clarkes celebrates it’s 37th year.

Despite the prevailing fad for Nouvelle Cuisine at the time she opened in December 1984 , she never waivered in her mission to showcase fresh and seasonal ingredients, cooked simply and in her trademark unpretentious style. It’s no wonder her restaurant was Lucian Freud’s favourite haunt

In the 25th year of being in business, she was awarded an MBE in the queens birthday honours list for services to hospitality – an award she modestly states she shares with everyone involved in the running of Clarkes. Alongside the restaurant, she runs a booming bakery business which has over 120 wholesale customers, and sees them making over 60,000 mince pies during the run up to Christmas. . If you’ve ever tucked into a pain au chocolage on the Eurostar, chances are it was one of Clarkes.

She has just written her third and self proclaimed final book. It has been said that she is a quietly successful restaurateur, described by Jason Atherton, amongst others as Britain's answer to Alice Waters.

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My guest today is Ravneet Gill

Ravneet is fast becoming one of the best known pastry chefs of her generation.

After completing a psychology degree, she studied at Le Cordon Bleu before working her way up the ranks in different pastry sections at some of the best restaurants in London - most notably, St. John, Llewelyn's, and Wild by Tart.

Ravneet published her first cookbook - in April 2020 entitled 'The Pastry Chef's Guide: The Secret to successful baking every time' as a handbook to dispel the fear around baking. And since then it looks as though her feet have barely touched the ground.

She joined both the Telegraph and Guardian Feast as their new baking columnist and starred as a judge on Channel 4’s Junior Bake Off alongside Liam Charles and host Harry Hill. A winner at the 2021 GQ Food & Drink Awards, this year she also launched The Damson Jelly Academy online cookery school

In 2018 she set up an organisation called Countertalk; a platform designed to help connect chefs, provide education and promote healthy work environments in the hospitality industry. The countertalk platform has gone from strength to strength over the last few years through Ravneet's hard work.

In addition to all of this, She has just brought out her second cookbook, Sugar, I Love You.

Ravneet has said:

‘Pastry is an art but it is also food so remember to stay in touch with your ingredients, reflect the seasons in your food and, for the love of God, don’t use strawberries in December.’

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