Desert Island Dishes

My guest today is Dr Rupy Aujila You may know him as the Doctors Kitchen, he is a medical doctor working as a GP in the NHS. In 2011 he helped himself overcome a pretty serious medial condition by overhauling his lifestyle and the food he ate. This was a lightbulb moment as he realised that a lot of patients would benefit from a holistic approach to both the body and the mind. The Doctors Kitchen has gone from strength to strength with best selling cookbooks and hes also created the UK first Culinary Mecicine course. Through which he now trains other medics on the foundations of nutrition and how to cook. Thank you to Sweaty Betty for sponsoring this episode - there is a very generous 20% for you to use online using the code “Desertislanddishes” – that’s all one word. Thank you for listening. Don’t forget you can find me on instagram, www.instagram.com/margienomura. If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating now is your moment! And your good deed for the week could be recommending Desert Island Dishes to your friends and colleagues. I love bringing it to you every week and your reviews really do make the world of difference. Bye! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Rozanna Purcell Roz is a best selling cookery author, presenter and entrepreneur. She grew up on a farm in Tipperary and has travelled the world as a model and as a beauty queen winning Miss Universe Ireland in 2010. Having developed an unhealthy relationship with food during her modelling years - her blog Natural Born Feeder and her subsequent cookbooks were born out of a change in her lifestyle and falling back in love with cooking. She now does triathlons, iron women competitions, organises group hikes and is a regular face on Irish TV. Don’t forget that you can rate review and subscribe to the podcast on itunes and it really does make such a difference, it boost sthe show in the charts and helps others to find it which is great and means I can keep bringing it to you each week. If you don’t already, come and follow me on Instagram www.instagram.com/margienomura and you can sign up for the newsletter and find a whole host of different recipes at www.desertislanddishes.co Thank you very much to Sweaty Betty for sponsoring this episode of Desert Island Dishes. And I will see you next week. Thank you so much for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Adam Byatt. Adam is a chef, restaurateur, food writer, TV presenter, judge and mentor. He has been described as one of London’s most exciting chef-restaurateurs. He owned his first restaurant at the tender age of 26 and now has 3 award winning restaurants in London’s Clapham including a coveted Michelin star. When asked about his motto for life he said it’s got to be “ the harder you work, the luckier you get”. Thank you to S. Pellegrino for sponsoring this episode of Desert island Dishes. If you or anyone you know wants to get the chance to cook for some of the world’s most acclaimed chefs, head to www.sanpellegrinoyoungchef.com/en/application Don’t forget that you can rate review and subscribe to the podcast on itunes and it really does make such a difference, it boost sthe show in the charts and helps others to find it which is great and means I can keep bringing it to you each week. If you don’t already, come and follow me on Instagram www.instagram.com/margienomura and you can sign up for the newsletter and find a whole host of different recipes at www.desertislanddishes.co And I will see you next week. Thank you so much for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Monica Galetti. Monica is a chef, a restaurant owner, Masterchef The Professionals Judge, and TV presenter for which she travels the world along with food critic Giles Coren for the program Amazing Hotels. She has recently opened her first restaurant Mere with her husband David. Before that she was senior sous chef at two Michelin starred restaurant Le Gavroche with Michel Roux Jr. Importantly she was the first woman to hold such a senior position at the restaurant. Thank you to S. Pellegrino for sponsoring this episode of Desert island Dishes. If you or anyone you know wants to get the chance to cook for some of the world’s most acclaimed chefs, head to www.sanpellegrinoyoungchef.com/en/application Don’t forget that you can rate review and subscribe to the podcast on itunes and it really does make such a difference, it boost sthe show in the charts and helps others to find it which is great and means I can keep bringing it to you each week. If you don’t already, come and follow me on Instagram www.instagram.com/margienomura and you can sign up for the newsletter and find a whole host of different recipes at www.desertislanddishes.co And I will see you next week. Thank you so much for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Stanley Tucci. Stanley is a multi award winning actor, director, writer and producer. You may know him from films such as Big Night, Julie and Julia, Lucky Number Slevin, Conspiracy, Devil Wears Prada, The Lovely Bones or The Hunger Games to really just name a few. His other great love in life is food and it has even been said of Stanley that he is a food connoisseur who also happens to act and direct. Whilst reminiscing on his childhood, he has said: “Food has become a kind of obsession with me, but it is more than that: it is another limb or organ, it is part of who I am.” Thank you so much for the amazing reviews you’ve been leaving on Itunes recently – they really do make my day and give the show a little boost and help others to find out about the show! If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating now is your moment! So there we have it – another delicious day of Desert Island Dishes! Don’t forget you can find me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/margienomura) and you can sign up for the newsletter at (https://www.desertislanddishes.co) Thank you for listening and I will see you next week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Chris Smalling. Chris is a Manchester United and England International footballer. He’s been playing professional football for the last 8 years having played more than 300 games for Man United. He talks to me about turning his dream to become a footballer into reality and what it’s like to represent your country on the pitch. In January 2018 Chris made the decision to turn vegan for a number of different reasons which we discuss. He is a pioneer of plant based eating in sport and is part of a growing list of vegan sports stars – including formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton, boxing champion David Haye and tennis star Venus Williams. I cant quite believe it but Chris is the first professional sportsman we’ve had on Desert Island Dishes and although it may come as a bit of a surprise to a lot of you - I am a big football fan, I love watching it and my husband is a huge Manchester united fan so we made a day trip of it and went to the Man U training ground to meet with Chris. I hope you enjoy! Thank you so much for the amazing reviews you’ve been leaving on Itunes recently – they really do make my day and give the show a little boost and help others to find out about the show! If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating now is your moment! So there we have it – another delicious day of Desert Island Dishes! Don’t forget you can find me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/margienomura) and you can sign up for the newsletter at (https://www.desertislanddishes.co) And I will see you next week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Isaac Carew Isaac is a chef, Instagram sensation and has also been working as a model for the last decade modelling for some of the world’s biggest fashion brands. He’s been described a chef-turned-model-turned-chef again He trained at culinary school for two years and received his big break in 2007 cooking alongside Angela Hartnett at The Connaught before being scouted as a model at the age of 22. He is one half of an impossibly cool and glamarous duo – with his girlfriend being the music superstar Dua Lipa. In 2018, Evening Standard named him as one of London's most influential people in the Tastemakers: Eat and Drink category. Hope you’re all well and that you’ve had a lovely week. If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating for desert island dishes and you’ve been enjoying listening – then consider it your good deed of the day – I read all of them and it genuinely does make a big difference, so thank you. My first newsletter went out last week – and now I hope its going to be a weekly occurrence – there will be an exclusive recipe in there each week plus little bits and bobs that I think you might be interested in – from what’s in season and what you can cook with it, homewares worth lusting after, podcasts, books and everything in between. If you fancy signing up, go to (https://www.desertislanddishes.co) and you can sign up there. The more the merrier and it just feels a bit more intimate and fun than social media does, so I’m glad I’m finally doing it. Don’t forget you can find me on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/margienomura/) Thank you so much for listening! I will see you next week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Jason Atherton Jason started cooking at a very young age in the seaside hotel run by his family. At 16 he ran away to London and got a job at a Michelin-starred restaurant -- all while living in a youth hostel. After years of working under esteemed chefs such as Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis, Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay, he began building his own global restaurant empire just seven years ago. First in London with the award winning Pollen Street Social and now in Hong Kong, Shanghai, The Phillippines, Dubai, Sydney and New York. He has 17 restaurants so far and counting. He has been described as a world class culinary alchemist and Marco Pierre Whie is on the record having said of Jason: “Jason is a realist not a fantasist. He has turned his dreams into reality” Hope you’re all well and that you’ve had a lovely week. If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating now is your moment! And your good deed for the week could be recommending Desert Island Dishes to your friends and colleagues. I love bringing it to you every week and your reviews really do make the world of difference. Having talked about it for a while now I have been beavering away on my newsletter you won't want to miss it – so do head to (https://www.desertislanddishes.co) and you can sign up - come and join the gang and I promise to try and make something that you actually look forwards to getting in your inbox - however sporadically… So there we have it – another delicious day of Desert Island Dishes! Don’t forget you can find me on instagram @margienomura Thank you so much for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Joe Wicks. Otherwise known as The Body Coach - Joe has taken the fitness world by storm in just 5 years he has gone from personal trainer doing bootcamps in the park that sometimes people wouldn’t show up for – to a bonafide fitness guru with his own empire. He has written 7 cookbooks and is a multi million best selling author having sold 3 million copies to date. His first book was the second best selling cookbook on record and he’s even been named the second most influential person in food in the UK. He boasts millions of followers across social media and has had the kind of success most people only dream of but through it all he says his mission has remained the same from day one and that’s "to get the world off diets, become more active and to eat proper food” Joe has recently become an investor in the meal delivery company (https://www.gousto.co.uk) which is another really exciting step in his career. He walked away from a huge deal with a supermarket in order to work with Gousto and we find out why that was such an important thing for him to do both personally and for his business. If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating for Desert Island Dishes - now is your moment! It really does only take a few seconds to do and makes such a differecne and helps other people to find out about the podcast which is amazing and I also really love reading your reviews! Thank you so much for listening – don’t forget you can visit the website www.desertislanddishes.co for all the recipes and lots of kitchen tips and tricks and you can find me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/margienomura/) X Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Chetna Makan. You may remember Chetna from The Great British Bake Off Season 5 where she made it through to the semi-finals and really stood out for her exciting use of flavour, creativity with her dishes and the fact that many of these dishes were completely new to her. She has gone on to write three cookbooks all showcasing the food of India in different and exciting ways. She has her own successful Youtube Channel “Food with Chetna” where she shares her love of cooking all inspired by Indian cuisine. Of Indian food Chetna says: Many people still think of Indian food as unhealthy takeaways or elaborate tedious recipes to prepare. I want to show that everyday Indian food, as I cook in my own kitchen, can be extremely delicious while being easy to prepare and healthy”. Hope you’re all well and that you’ve had a lovely week. If you haven’t yet left a 5* rating now is your moment! It makes such a difference and I really love reading your reviews! This was the first episode we have recorded at my house and Chetna came over armed with Portuguese custard tarts which are the way to my heart – and we drank tea from teacups. All this to say this it was very sophisticated. We nibbled on brownies and custard tarts as we chatted with the Spring sunshine pouring through the window. (I think it’s always nice to set the scene a little isn’t it??) Thank you so much for listening – don’t forget you can visit the website (https://www.desertislanddishes.co) for all the recipes and lots of kitchen tips and tricks and you can find me on Instagram @margienomura Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.