CEMAL EZEL
Change Please is a social enterprise that provides homeless people with the skills, equipment and support required to become fully fledged baristas, selling high-quality coffee from distinctive mobile carts, one of which can be found in Borough’s Green Market. In our latest podcast, Change Please founder Cemal Ezel joins Angela to discuss how the business helps people back into homes and employment.
The only way is ethics: tackling homelessness
Cemal Ezal, founder of Change Please, on the life-changing virtues of ‘patient employment’
SHEILA DILLON & ALEX RENTON
For over 20 years Sheila Dillon has been one of the lead voices of The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4. In the latest Borough Talks podcast, she talks to Angela about how the programme’s focus has evolved over the years and tells us about the first official book to come from it, 13 Foods That Shape Our World. They are joined by the book’s author, Alex Renton, who gives us an insight into how our ever-growing hunger for staples such as spices, oil and soy are changing the planet.
SAM WALLACE
For World Bee Day, Angela is joined by Sam Wallace of From Field and Flower. Sam, who together with her husband Stefano is committed to bringing fantastic, sustainably produced raw honeys to London, discusses how the beekeepers they work with really know and love their bees and how the production process of their honeys keeps the naturally occurring bacteria and flavours alive. rn
Recipes
Hive mind
Clare Finney heads to an apiary on the Swedish coast to visit the beekeeper – and hundreds of hard-working bees – behind one of the many remarkable honeys sold at Borough Market by From Field and Flower
GEORGINA HAYDEN
Food writer Georgina Hayden talks to Angela about the influence of her Cypriot heritage on her cooking, the breadth of vegan recipes in her new book Nistisima, and her experiences as a judge on the Channel 4 TV show Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver.
RAVNEET GILL
Ravneet Gill – chef, author and founder of Countertalk, an organisation that connects chefs and promotes healthy work environments – talks to Angela about creating change in the hospitality industry, the publication of her new book, Sugar, I Love You, and her very big binder of recipes. (Image: Ellis Parrinder)
IWD special
CLARE FINNEY & CHANTELLE NICOLSON
To mark International Women’s Day, food journalist Clare Finney and chef Chantelle Nicolson join Angela to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing women in the food industry today, the role of the media in perpetuating macho stereotypes within restaurant kitchens, and the power that comes from a culture of support and collaboration.
CHARLES TEBBUTT
Join host Angela Clutton in conversation with Charles Tebbutt as they discuss the benefits of agroforestry and how sustainable farming can maximise flavour while protecting the environment.
Recipes
Root and branch reform
Clare Finney joins Charles Tebbutt of Food & Forest on a visit to Spain to meet some of the pioneers of agroforestry
CLAUDIA RODEN
Claudia Roden is an incomparable figure in food. Since leaving the Cairo of her childhood and arriving in London to study at St Martin’s School of Art she has blazed a trail for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food in the UK. Still working in her mid-eighties, she shares with us the stories behind her life and career, and why – when her children all left home – she set out to travel the Mediterranean alone and how that journey became her latest book, Med. (Image: Jamie Lau)
PHIL JUMA
Phil Juma of Borough Market’s JUMA joins us to talk about his Iraqi heritage and how it inspired him to leave behind a career in finance and set out to bring Iraqi food to Londoners. In a conversation that crosses the intricacies of making the juma dumplings that Market visitors happily queue up for, to the regionality of food in Iraq, Phil shows how food can challenge and change perceptions.
Spinach fatayer
A recipe for Iraqi stuffed pastry pockets from Phil Juma, the man behind Juma Kitchen
DAN SALADINO
Journalist and author Dan Saladino discusses his latest book, Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods u0026 Why We Need to Save Them. From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to pistachios in Syria and an exploding corn that might just hold the key to the future of food, Dan shares some of the produce around the world that is at risk of being lost for ever and tells the stories of the pioneering farmers, scientists, cooks and indigenous communities who are preserving food traditions and fighting for change.
