The Olive Magazine Podcast

This week on the olive magazine podcast, we have a special chat with food and travel writer John Gregory-Smith to celebrate his new book, Orange Blossom & Honey, and his magical Moroccan recipes. Plus, the team discuss Portuguese custard tarts after this week’s Bake Off technical challenge – how to make them, and where to buy them in London, Lisbon and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the olive magazine podcast we share our essential guide to London Cocktail Week, learn more about brewing sake in London, and take a virtual trip to oyster country, Arcachon, in southwest France. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, on the olive magazine podcast we celebrate National Dumpling Day with a guide to where to find the best dim sum in London’s Chinatown, plus we speak to Chloe Scott-Moncrieff, founder of the Young British Foodie awards. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week food director Janine has a specially extended chat with MasterChef champion, author, chef and Japanese food expert Tim Anderson. Tim believes cooking Japanese food is a lot easier than people think and he’s written a book, Japaneasy, to prove it! Tim also talks about his time spent living in Japan, how he conquered MasterChef and why it's possible to make the best ever ramen in less than an hour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week digital intern Amanda finds out what Jimmy Doherty thinks makes the perfect fish and chips (it includes LOTS of vinegar); web editor Alex gets a lesson in Icelandic food and booze from Texture’s Aggi Sverrisson and food director Janine meets up with cheesemonger Morgan McGlynn to talk about some quirky new British cheeses (Yorkshire pecorino anyone?). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week web editor Alex and chief sub Dom discuss the coolest places to eat and drink in Brighton, food director Janine and cookery writer Adam talk about the benefits of salt-baking and digital intern Amanda shares her top cake-making tips. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the olive magazine podcast, we celebrate National Burger Day with an interview with Young British Foodie winner, chef Adam Rawson about his clever slider recipes (and whether he prefers Burger King or McDonalds). The cookery team explore pepper as an ingredient in sweet and savoury recipes. Plus, we share our top tips for making your own infused spirits (now is the time to get foraging!). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week’s podcast the team explore the British tradition of afternoon tea, sharing their favourites in London, and get into a debate on which is the right way to serve scones. (Psst, cream is the right way.) Janine and Adam gives us their top tips from the test kitchen for injecting some Vietnamese flavour into your next barbecue. Plus, we’ve our essential guide to eating out in the Moroccan port town of Essaouria. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week editor and host Laura grabs five minutes with chef of the moment Tommy Banks at the super-foodie Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire. Food director Janine goes geeky with ingredient specialist souschef.co.uk at its HQ in north London. And travel editor Rhiannon reveals why camping in a vineyard is the only way to holiday (this week, at least). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we celebrate Yorkshire Day with web editor Alex Crossley (who also happens to be from Yorkshire!). Alex returns to her home county to explore the independent food scene in Leeds including a lesson in British charcuterie from Friends of Ham as well as matching speciality coffee with Yorkshire-made sweet treats at North Star. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week olive’s new sub editor Hannah gives a glimpse into her heritage, with a virtual gastronomic tour of Gibraltar; the team reminisce about their favourite foodie adventures in Italy; plus, editor Laura talks about the recent renaissance of authentic, regional Italian restaurants in the UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week the cookery team share their expert tips on cooking perfect pasta – including why fresh isn't always best (sometimes frozen is!) – and web editor Alex visits a specialist sherry bar called Sack in Shoreditch for a guide to the (delicious) fortified wine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony Falco, former pizza czar at NYC's legendary pizza restaurant Roberta's, and Yard Sale Pizza's Nick Buckland in an extended interview on all things dough-based including how to start a business from your back yard and why it's ok to break all the rules in the quest for perfection. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week travel editor Rhiannon gives her top tips on eating out with kids (and gives specific recommendations of places to try in Bristol). Food director Janine talks us through wild fermenting and why we're OBSESSED with pickled eggs. And, Alex meets Instagram star Her Dark Materials to learn about making fruit liqueurs and taking the perfect foodie Instagram pic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we talk about mastering the art of low and slow on the barbecue, our weird and wonderful biscuit-eating habits, and reveal why Ithaca in Greece is a must-visit this summer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week the team have been speaking to a trio of passionate experts – one that's opened up a sparkling wine bar (very different to a champagne bar, apparently), one that's travelled the world tracking down the best street food, and another that's dedicated his life to proper bread. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week acting web editor Alex chats to cookery writer Adam about the culinary delights of Malaysia then catches up with chef and food writer Elly Curshen (AKA Elly Pear) to talk about her new book Let’s Eat, and what’s going on foodwise at Camp Bestival. Editor Laura and sub-editor Hannah tell us why cider is this year's coolest drink and food director Janine has some tips on cooking with it too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week editor Laura meets Dan Hunter, head chef of the highly acclaimed Brae in Australia to talk about what heck hyperlocality means. Digital writer Alex is chatting to Eddie Russell, master distiller at Wild Turkey, about Bourbon and gets a lesson in making the perfect Old Fashioned and cookery writer Adam tells digital intern Amanda about his recent foodie trip to the Tarn region of France and his adventures in cheesemaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week the olive magazine team have been busy experimenting with insects. Cookery writer Adam has been sampling a range of the critters in a Thai feast and feeds back exactly why we should be introducing them into our diets. Food director Janine reveals her favourite new takeaways and how to make them at home (black dal and smashed burgers FTW!). Plus digital writer Alex learns more about the negroni ahead of Negroni Week (5-11 June 2017). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week the team have been talking sarnie heaven and hell with Max of Max's sandwich shop, travelling around the Pyrénées in search of chocolatines (and more), and learning about the art of beer and cheese pairing with Meantime Brewery's Big Al ahead of our exclusive reader event doing just that, on 6 July. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices