Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

Gilly Smith

Booking Overview

A weekly interview podcast exploring food, food writing, culture, politics, and the environmental impact of food production through conversations with established authors, chefs, restaurateurs, journalists, and campaigners, typically tied to a current book. Strong pitches would be cookbook authors, food writers, culinary historians, chefs, and food-system or sustainability experts with a substantive new book and a distinctive cultural or environmental perspective; booking difficulty is high because the show regularly features prominent food-world figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 332

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 141 subscribers

Instagram: 1.6k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Gilly Smith - Food writer, broadcaster, podcast presenter, producer, and author of Taste and the TV Chef: How Storytelling Can Save the Planet. She has presented food podcasts, produced food-policy programming, ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established food writers, cookbook authors, chefs, restaurateurs, broadcasters, journalists, or food-system campaigners with a strong body of work and a current book or substantial food-related project.
Required Achievements:  
Published cookbooks or food books, Established journalism, broadcasting, restaurant, or campaigning careers, Recognized expertise in food culture, culinary heritage, or food sustainability

Recent Guest Discussions

Rebecca Seal - Food Allergies, The Rise Of The Allergy Epidemic, Food Culture, And The Relationship Between Health And Modern Life.

Trine Hahnemann - Scandinavian Food, Seasonal Cooking, History, Geography, Cultural Identity, And The Future Of Food.

Ozlem Warren - Turkish Food, Culinary Heritage, Vegetarian Cooking, Cultural Identity, And Connections To Homeland.

Recent Topics

Food Writing, Cookbooks, Food Culture, Sustainability, Food Politics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith
:

Rebecca Seal: Irritated

July 16, 2026

This week we're with author, journalist and broadcaster, Rebecca Seal and her deep dive into the world of allergies in IrritatedShe's spent 20 years writing about food, not least as the deputy editor of Observer Food Monthly, and her life was all about the deliciousness of food. But it was her younger daughter’s allergy to soy which prompted her to explore the rise in the allergy epidemic, and to piece together a fascinating puzzle of the way we live.If you'd like to support CTB which is adve...

Trine Hanhnemann: Midnight Sun

July 09, 2026

This week we're with Danish food writer, restaurateur and campaigner, Trine Hahnemann and her latest cookbook, Midnight Sun.This is a book about long lazy summer days - cycling to the beach, stopping off to buy strawberries from a local stall, peeling shrimps to eat with homemade mayo and bread.. But under the haze of a Scandanavian sun, food for Trine is about much more than a picnic. It’s about history, time, geography and culture, a sum of the past and a warning about the future. Gil...

Ozlem Warren: Istanbul

July 02, 2026

This week, we’re with the WORD on Turkish food and heritage, Ozlem Warren to dig into her latest book, Istanbul.We’ve followed Ozlem on Cooking the Books through her writing career, from Ozlem’s Turkish Table which inspired a fund raising supper club for the earthquake in 2023 at Gilly’s house, through vegetarian Turkish in Sebze, and now to Istanbul, her most confidant work yet, and her warmest welcome to her homeland.If you'd like to support CTB which is advertising and sponsorship free, co...

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