Desert Island Dishes
Hosted by [Host Name] and Maeve Haran · Desert Island Dishes
4.8from 163 ratings
- 267
- Episodes
- 36
- Transcribed
- 163
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 586K
- YouTube views
About Desert Island Dishes
What would you choose as your last meal? Chef Margie Nomura talks to a special guest about the seven dishes that have shaped their lives. In this podcast you will find conversations with interesting people from the world of food and beyond uncovering the seminal dishes and experiences that have shaped who they are today. We will find out about their favourite childhood dishes, the dishes they eat the most often, and the dishes that mean the most to them. And of course we will also discover what their last dish would be before being cast off to the desert island.
- Publisher
- Desert Island Dishes
- Category
- arts · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jun 2017
- Latest episode
- 10 Apr 2025
Latest episodes
36 of 267 episodes have a transcript.
10 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT
S18 Ep8: Asma Khan on her unstoppable quest for social change in the food industry.
3 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT
S18 Ep7: Nicola Lamb the beloved pastry chef on turning her passion into a career
27 Mar 2025TRANSCRIPT
S18 Ep6: Martha Swales the Gardening Guru on the dishes that have shaped her
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S18 Ep8: Asma Khan on her unstoppable quest for social change in the food industry.
Published 10 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Well they do say the first thing you should do when you're learning to cook is really learn to eat because if you don't do that first you can never really understand how. Yeah it's it's so important and you know if you have a child who only likes to eat and is not interested in cooking just wait yeah be patient because then they'll become like me yeah I only ate I would absolutely not do anything and not go in the kitchen and well but all I could recreate all of this because I ate it and I loved it. You say of that time in Cambridge when you first got to England you were quite lonely and one of the impetus for learning how to cook was so that you could make friends which I think is so important to to remember the power of food and the power of cooking. […]
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- Asma Khan
- Nicola Lamb
- Martha Swales
- Natalia Rudin
- Gordon Ramsay
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 586,110
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 57 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 106 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100
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- Quality
- 46
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Desert Island Dishes?
[Host Name] and Maeve Haran host the show. Published by Desert Island Dishes.
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