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Join host Samuel Goldsmith every Tuesday as he chats with cooks, chefs, and food lovers. In each episode, Samuel dives into a sparkling conversation about the guest's life, their journey in the food and drink world, and, of course, their passion for food. Expect plenty of laughs, life lessons, and unforgettable stories from the people behind the plates.

The fun doesn't stop there! Tune in for sections like My Favourite Dish, where the guest discusses their favourite dishes and how they've made them their own, Cookery Confessions, where guests share their funniest kitchen mishaps and culinary secrets, and Quick Fire Questions, a rapid round of surprises that reveal more about their tastes and quirks.

Plus, on Thursdays, get a taste of new recipes in our bonus episodes—easy-to-follow cook-alongs to bring the flavours of the conversation to your kitchen.

Do scroll back in the feed to our archive including special episodes hosted by Tom Kerridge, Orlando Murrin and Mallika Basu.

The Good Food podcast has featured guests such as: Jamie Oliver, Nadiya Hussain, Michel Roux, Ainsley Harriot, Gennaro Contaldo, Claire Richards, Fred Sirieix, Big Zuu, Tess Daly, Liz Bonnin, Becky Excell, Professor Tim Spector, Rukmini Iyer, Riyadh Khalaf, John Whaite, Crystelle Pereira, Paul Ainsworth, The Hairy Bikers, Marcus Wareing, Sabrina Ghayour, Jane Dunn and Atul Kochhar.

Discussing topics such as BBQ, fermenting, brunch, spices, Eurovision, Caribbean flavours, sustainability, chocolate, Spanish cuisine, vegan cooking, Bake Off, airfryers, health, wellbeing, nutrition, slow cookers, cocktails, pancakes, pressure cookers, seasonal food and cocktails.

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#630
Thursday · 6 min
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#629
Tuesday · 50 min
Nessie Welschinger on Real Housewives of London, Bake Off & Baking for the Queen
Real Housewives of London series two is streaming now on Hayu. Samuel Goldsmith sits down with Nessie Welschinger — cake designer, Real Housewives of London star and founder of Chelsea Cake Company — for a conversation that runs from royal commissions to kitchen catastrophes. Nessie explains how she left a decade in banking to teach herself cake decorating from YouTube, coded her own website from a Coding for Dummies book, and ended up delivering Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday cake to the Tower of London just two weeks after giving birth. She talks about growing up between Singaporean and Egyptian kitchens — her grandmother chopping jute mallow for molokheya on her lap in front of the telly — and why the kitchen is her place of peace. There's also Bake Off: The Professionals (and the carrot showpiece that went very wrong on camera), the reality of filming Real Housewives while raising three kids, a Christmas dinner featuring home-churned butter, a mandoline accident with a pot pie, and the durian story you won't forget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#628
September 10 · 6 min
Sticky bourbon BBQ wings with blue cheese dip
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#627
September 8 · 44 min
Poppy O'Toole on Batch Cooking, MSG and her own child hating potatoes
Poppy O'Toole on batch cooking, secret MSG and putting caviar on chicken wings Poppy O'Toole is back for a rare second appearance and this time she's brought a new baby, a new book and a confession about the little pot of MSG living next to her salt and pepper. We get into her Absolutely Delicious Batch Cookbook and why most batch cooking books get it wrong (nobody wants to lose an entire Sunday), the goose fat roast potato trick that lets you freeze them par-boiled and cook straight from frozen, and why every recipe is tested to go in the oven without defrosting. Then it gets less sensible. Poppy upgrades her all-time favourite dish from buffalo wings to buffalo wings with a bump of caviar, explains the free-caviar economics of the Fortnum's Awards, and admits her daughter has rejected mashed potato entirely, but will happily lick salt off a roast potato and demand her own cup of decaf tea. Neither of us is qualified to give parenting advice. We give some anyway. Plus: the mystery bags in her freezer, why she plays down her own expertise on camera and wants to stop, meeting Denise Welch as a life goal, and a quick-fire round she was convinced she'd fluffed. In this episode: • 00:00 — Welcome back (and how she compares to Rick Stein) • 03:32 — The batch cookbook, and why most batch cooking is too much work • 10:26 — The goose fat roast potato freezer trick • 15:19 — The secret pot of MSG • 16:48 — Baby hates mash: feeding a baby tea, salt and dog hair • 20:20 — Favourite dish: chicken wings with a bump of caviar • 26:08 — Confessions: bubblegum ice cream and a very bad undercut • 28:27 — The Grumble, her imaginary all-potato pub • 32:17 — The misconception she wants to fix • 35:11 — Guilty pleasure: tinned fish • 37:29 — Quick fire • 41:15 — What good food means Poppy's Absolutely Delicious Batch Cookbook is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#626
September 3 · 5 min
Spiced lamb meatball stew
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#625
September 1 · 37 min
Yotam Ottolenghi on why Simple food can't be beat
Samuel Goldsmith sits down with Yotam Ottolenghi at his London HQ to talk about Simple 2, the follow-up to his 2018 bestseller, and why the kitchen has become a refuge from a noisy, screen-filled world. Yotam explains how his idea of "simple" has evolved: under 10 ingredients, one pan or pot, less peeling and chopping, and unashamed use of good-quality jars and tins. Along the way he shares the confit chickpeas with olives and orange that epitomise the book, oven-baked meatballs glazed with pomegranate molasses, a rustic "one sauce" roasted tomato base, three dairy-rich rice recipes, and a study in brown sugar for dessert. He also talks about co-writing with Verena, the new Fundamentals chapter of fridge-ready flavour builders, feeding his kids, and the Ottolenghi condiment range born during lockdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#624
August 27 · 6 min
Pistachio & Sour Cherry Baked Alaska
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#623
August 25 · 38 min
Angellica Bell on her career in TV, MasterChef and Baked Alaska
Angellica Bell joins Samuel Goldsmith live at the Good Food Show in Birmingham for an episode about the food that made her. She takes us back to her grandmother's tiny London kitchen - a St Lucian chef who cooked entirely by instinct, never opened a cookbook, and had Angellica gutting fish and frying chicken by the age of six. There was a blackberry bush in the garden, a pot always on the stove, and an open door for anyone who knocked. From there: student survival food (pasta, baked beans and cheese), the Dairy Book of Home Cookery that three generations of her family have cooked from, and the Celebrity MasterChef run she almost turned down, including the vanilla cupcake baked Alaska she gambled the competition on. Angellica also talks CBBC and the bag of fan mail she's never thrown away, what food is really like inside the Celebrity Big Brother house, why the dinner ladies who fed her at the start of her career still mean so much, and the death row meal that unapologetically combines a roast with a Christmas dinner. Plus she sets a new record in our quickfire round. In this episode: Learning to cook Caribbean food with her grandmother Why she never listed food as an "interest" before MasterChef Winning Celebrity MasterChef and cooking in professional kitchens Food, shopping lists and strategy in the Big Brother house School dinners, canteen food and why they matter Her ultimate three-course meal Good Food is hosted by Samuel Goldsmith. Recorded live at the Good Food Show, Birmingham. Follow, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#622
August 20 · 5 min
Panuozzo sandwich
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#621
August 18 · 46 min
Alasdair Gill on Addiction, Recovery and the Kitchens That Saved Him
Please note: this episode contains frank discussion of drug and alcohol addiction as well as some explicit language Chef and writer Alasdair Gill joins Samuel Goldsmith to talk about his raw new book, Knives and Spoons — a memoir-with-recipes charting his rise from kitchen porter to head chef, and his journey through addiction to recovery. Alasdair opens up about why kitchens took him in when nowhere else would, growing up as the son of the late restaurant critic A.A. Gill, and how food became the thing that kept his life on track. He also shares the chaos of catering a castle wedding with two waiters, why he'd rather have a baguette and a pickle than fine dining, and his surprisingly poor crisp flavour ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#619
August 13 · 6 min
Home-style chicken curry
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#618
August 11 · 52 min
Flo & Joan: Crisps, Cooking Disasters & Andrew Lloyd Webber
Musical comedy duo Flo & Joan join us to talk food, family, life on the road and the stories behind their latest shows. They reveal why the thought of Andrew Lloyd Webber turning up to their one-man musical is the stuff of nightmares, how they created a new show using another band’s abandoned setlist, and what it’s really like performing and eating your way through Edinburgh Fringe. Plus, we hear about a spectacular cooking disaster involving a fistful of cloves, a mushroom soup with unfortunate consequences, an alarming relationship with crisps, and the secret to a properly good bacon sandwich. Expect sisterly chaos, strong opinions on food and plenty of culinary confessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#615
August 6 · 5 min
Vivek Singh's Chingri Malai Curry
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#614
August 4 · 46 min
Vivek Singh on 25 Years of The Cinnamon Club
Vivek Singh has spent the last 25 years redefining what Indian fine dining can be. As the chef behind London's iconic Cinnamon Club, he joins the Good Food podcast to reflect on the restaurant's remarkable journey, the dishes that changed perceptions of Indian cuisine, and the stories that have shaped his career. Vivek shares how he deliberately challenged expectations when The Cinnamon Club first opened, removing familiar curry-house staples in favour of regional flavours, seasonal British ingredients and bold new ideas. He explains why one deeply personal dish, "Papa Pigeon", has never left the menu, how his mother's pumpkin chutney became an unlikely signature, and why the restaurant's 25th anniversary tasting menu celebrates both tradition and innovation. Along the way, Vivek looks back on growing up in eastern India, where community celebrations revolved around home-cooked food, and recalls the Bengali wedding meal that introduced him to the prawn curry that remains his favourite dish to this day. He also reveals his biggest kitchen disaster, the surprising ingredient he thinks is overrated, and the guilty pleasure he can't resist. Whether you're fascinated by restaurant history, passionate about Indian food or simply love hearing the stories behind unforgettable dishes, this episode is packed with warmth, humour and plenty of inspiration. **In this episode:** * 25 years of The Cinnamon Club * Reinventing Indian fine dining * The story behind "Papa Pigeon" * Childhood food memories from Bengal * Why regional Indian cooking matters * His favourite Bengali prawn curry * The biggest kitchen disaster of his career * The Five Guys milkshake he swears by Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#612
July 30 · 5 min
Green bean mac ’n’ cheese
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#611
July 28 · 40 min
Claire Richards on Tour Riders & the Fish Pie That Nearly Ended Her
Recorded live at the Good Food Show, Samuel Goldsmith sits down with pop star and Steps member Claire Richards. Claire reveals the origin of her legendary Pasta a la Claire — born on a 1990s Steps VHS and originally made with packet ham and a tin of tomato soup — and how she's since given it a grown-up makeover. She talks growing up on her mum's "mince-based" cooking outside London, teaching herself Thai curry after her honeymoon, and the four-hour ragù she perfected after a trip to Bologna. There's life on the road too: dodgy service-station sandwiches and Ribena in the 90s, why she now asks for Whispering Angel on her rider, the one day every tour she takes over the kitchen to cook for the whole crew, and the strict no-spice rule before a show. Plus: eating caviar off her hand at the British Fashion Awards, crunching prawn shells in Japan, her M&S ambassador role and the new strawberry sparkling wine, the Celebrity MasterChef fish pie disaster involving very runny mash, and which Steps member she'd pick as her sous chef. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#609
July 23 · 5 min
Pork schnitzel with lemon caper butter
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#608
July 21 · 31 min
Natalie Cassidy on Family, Food and Fresh Starts
This week, actor, presenter and podcast host Natalie Cassidy sits down with Samuel Goldsmith to talk about the food that has shaped her life. From treasured memories of her mum's traditional cooking to winning Cooking with the Stars, Natalie shares how food has always been at the heart of family, comfort and celebration. They chat about her new memoir Happy Days, life after EastEnders, why she's happiest cooking a Sunday roast, and the Italian family meals she could eat every day. Natalie also reveals her biggest kitchen disasters (including a memorable raw chicken Kyiv incident), her love of M&S crisps and wine, and the Good Food recipe she swears by for perfect Yorkshire puddings. Plus, she picks her dream EastEnders cooking team, shares her favourite foodie finds from the Good Food Show, and answers our quick-fire food questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#606
July 16 · 5 min
Sardine tomato pasta with gremolata
Cook-a-long with Samuel Goldsmith, in this bonus recipe episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#605
July 14 · 46 min
Monty Don on Gardening, Cooking & Living Seasonally
Monty Don joins the Good Food Podcast to talk about the connection between gardening, cooking and eating well. Monty shares why seasonal ingredients are at the heart of everything he cooks. He also reveals the biggest misconception people have about his life, explains why he's never had a ready meal, and shares the story of filming rhubarb in Wakefield, which he says was even colder than filming polar bears in Canada. Samuel and Monty discuss:  🌱 How to start growing your own fruit and vegetables  🍅 The joy of cooking with seasonal produce  🥔 Why potatoes are the perfect crop for beginners  🍝 Monty's favourite pasta recipe and his foolproof carbonara tips  🌍 His travels filming gardens around the world  📺 What really goes on behind the scenes of Gardeners' World Listen to more Good Food Podcast episodes wherever you get your podcasts, and discover hundreds of recipes at goodfood.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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