Desert Island Dishes

Julius Roberts is a cook, farmer and gardener and he's talking us through his Dream Dinner Party today. I think it's impossible to listen to this and not think about your own answers. So if you were to host your own Dream Dinner Party with 4 people who were dead or alive, who would you pick? Julius picks some amazing guests and his menu sounds absolutely delicious too set against the backdrop of the meadow at his farm in Dorset. You can preorder his hotly anticipated debut cookbook The Farm Table is going to be published on the 28th September, which is so exciting! Preorder your copy of Julius’s book here. Run, don't walk, it's going to be spectacular. Thank you for listening and supporting Desert Island Dishes with your reviews, telling your friends and helping to spread the word! See you soon for the next instalment of Desert Island Dishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You may know Emma from her work as a model and TV presenter - she is afterall one of the most experienced and versatile broadcasters in the UK.  Across her incredible career, Emma has presented juggernaut shows such as Big Brother for six series, The Circle , and Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. Alongside her radio and reality television credentials, Emma was not only a a contestant on The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C last year, but she went on to win it. In 2019, she trained and qualified as a Maternity Care Assistant for the television show series Delivering Babies and now In 2023, Emma continues to present The Voice and and Cooking with the Stars on ITV. Whilst she hasn't made her name in the world of food it has played an important part in her career and food is a real passion of hers. Emma returns to our screen with the next series of Cooking with the Stars on the 4th July at 9pm on ITV. Thank you to our sponsor Llloyds Bank and thank you so much for listening! If you dont already, come and follow us on Instagram and Tiktok @desertislandishes and subscribe to our newsletter at www.desertislanddishes.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have a returning guest for you this week on our side dish in the form of the Gennaro Contaldo. Gennaro is one of the UK’s most loved chefs - widely known as the man who taught Jamie Oliver everything he knows about cooking and he's going to be sharing his Dream Dinner Party with us. Referred to as everyone’s favourite nonno – he’s written more than a dozen best selling Italian cookbooks including his latest one Cucina which is a cookbook of Italian classics that help you to spend less and eat better. It’s a simple philosophy – delicious hearty meals using accessible and affordable ingredients – encouraging an ethos of zero waste – meaning your budget is put to very good and delicious use. The question is: who would you invite to your Dream Dinner Party and what would you serve them to eat? Thank you so much for listening. Make sure you subscribe so you never miss an episode of Desert Island Dishes or the Dream Dinner Party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sophie is a cook and recipe developer. Her passion for food shines through and we love to hear that on Desert Island Dishes. We talk all thing sandwiches, whether it's worth going to cookery school, life in a restaurant and why pies are the greatest. After deciding to embark on a career in food while in her final year at university, she then trained at the world-famous Leith’s before working as a food stylist and as a chef at Quo Vadis. She made a name for herself in the world of food as Head of Food at Mob, the online food magazine. And has since gone on to host supper clubs, a podcast and having amassed a loyal army of followers, she took the leap to go freelance last year. Sophie says her food represents comfort first and foremost… Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for supporting us this season and helping us to bring the show to you every week. Don't forget to come and find us on Instagram and Tiktok @desertislanddishes and find Sophie @sophiewyburd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When it comes to dinner parties – no one is better equipped to talk to us than Rosie Mackean. Very excited to have Rosie on The Dream Dinner Party. Rosie is a chef, food stylist and pasta and dinner party queen. She is doing a dinner party pop up on the 7th July in London which I wish I could go to as I know it will be delicious and tickets are available so if you're around definitely check that out. And she also writes a brilliant substack newsletter where each month she gives the recipe for a 4 course dinner party to completely take the stress out of entertaining. It’s brilliant and I highly recommend. Find Rosie on Instagram @rosiemackeanpastaqueen and her substack here Follow us @desertislanddishes So exciting to see how many of you are listening to the dream dinner party each week – honestly a game I’ve aways played with my friends so this is very fun to do with you all too and I'm so happy you're enjoying it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John is one of the food world’s most recognisable faces. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, starting his career in the world of food at the age of 16. He credits his love of food and passion for cooking to his grandmother, who raised him from the age of 4. After apprenticeships at some of Melbourne’s best restaurants, he moved to the UK in the 1990s, where he quickly made a name for himself. He worked his way up from a sous chef at Quaglino’s and he’s had his own hugely successful restaurants, the likes of Smiths and The Luxe. He first appeared on ITV‘s This Morning in 1996 and became a household name as the co-host of Masterchef in 2005 which will enter its 20th season next year. He’s written numerous best-selling cookbooks and made a whole host of award-winning TV shows and was honoured in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2022 for outstanding services to food, broadcasting and charity. Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for supporting us this season and helping us to bring the show to you every week. Don't forget to come and find us on Instagram and Tiktok @desertislanddishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The side dish: This week’s guest on The Dream Dinner Party is Max La Manna. Max is a champion of the low waste and sustainable lifestyle, he’s a chef , presenter and award winning author and has been described as a bona fide millennial heart throb. HIs new book You can Cook This is out now and is a great blueprint for how to use up ingredients in your kitchen that so often end up going to waste – instead Max shows you ingenius ways to use them and all the recipes are affordable, quick and easy. You can find it here. I wanted to say that I so appreciate how all the guests we’ve had for the Dream Dinner Party have fully embraced the theme and Max is no exception, so buckle up, grab your passport because we are off to Italy! Don't forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you dont miss an episode of Desert Island Dishes or The Dream Dinner Party. Thank you so much for listening! Come and find us on Instagram @desertislanddishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducing our new mini episode...it's a little after dinner something to keep you going through the week. It's The Dream Dinner Party. It's short and sweet, just one simple question. Each week we will have a different guest guiding us through their Dream Dinner Party. They are allowed 4 guests, they can be dead or alive and of course we want to know why they will be invited. They're going to be talking us through their dream dinner party menu, what will their dream guests be feasting on and what will they drink? I'm so excited for this and our first guest sharing her dream dinner party is the wonderful Esther Coren. It only felt fitting to have Esther as our first Dream Dinner Party guest as she was my very first guest on Desert Island Dishes before I had a single listener and so that felt like a fun full circle moment. Thank you Esther for being so generous with your time – and for taking a chance on me and my little Dictaphone that I plonked on the floor between us. Esther is a fantastic writer, she’s so witty and I just love her writing . She has a brilliant Substack which you should all subscribe to and can find here. Do make sure you're subscribed to catch all episodes of The Dream Dinner Party and Desert Island Dishes. Thank you so much for listening, bye! Find us on Instagram and Tiktok @desertislanddishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twiggy is one of those rare celebrities known by a single name. She was the girl from Neasden, north London who became the face of the swinging sixties. With her petite frame at just 5ft 6 Twiggy smashed the stereotypes of what it meant to be a supermodel. Her pixie hair cut and wide eyes will forever be iconic.  As the model of her age she was propelled into the glamorous world of fashion and photography and later she found success as a singer, dancer and actress. She starred in Ken Russell’s film The boyfriend – a performance for which she won not one by two golden globes. In 1983 her talents took her to Broadway for her debut in the musical My One and Only. She is a wife, mother, grandmother and of course fellow podcaster.  She has said of her many successes “ I think I’ve had a brilliant career. And more importantly I’ve had a very happy life.” Listen to Twiggy's podcast Tea with Twiggy wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for supporting us this season and for helping us to bring the show to you this week Don't forget to come and find us on Instagram and Tiktok @desertislanddishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Max is a champion of the low waste and sustainable lifestyle. He’s a chef, presenter and award-winning author and has been described as a bona fide millennial heartthrob. His recipe content and food shows have been seen by over 1 billion people. He talks to Margie about why the best sandwich are painful to eat and his choice of his last supper might surprise you! What would you pick? I know it's a very hard question to answer but it's also impossible not to think about your own choices. Max has been plant-based since 2011 and says his biggest ambition has always been making sure his recipes are accessible to everyone without being at all preachy about being vegan. Through his viral recipe videos and work with BBC Earth and beyond, Max has inspired hundreds of thousands of people across the world to rethink their approach to food consumption and made it his mission to breathe new life into leftovers that are typically destined for the bin. The son of a French chef father and a mother of Italian heritage, food was very important to them as a family when he was growing up. In the early days of his career, he supported himself by cooking everywhere from pizzerias to Michelin-starred restaurants and it was this ultimately that led him to challenge his own values. Max has got a new cookbook out now called You can Cook This which you can buy here. Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for supporting us this season and thank you to this week's episode sponsor, St Pierre Bakery, for helping us to bring the show to you this week Don't forget to come and find us on Instagram and Tiktok @desertislanddishes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.