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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...

Rachel Khoo: The Smallest Restaurant in Paris

June 25, 2026

 This week, Gilly is with the author of The Smallest Restaurant in Paris, Rachel KhooNow, you may know her as the author of The Little Paris Kitchen and the star of the BBC’s cooler original version of Emily in Paris - without the haute couture or the PR job, a young Brit abroad, feeling her way through being in Paris and cooking in her tiny kitchen.Now she’s written a memoir about those years, and – whisper it - published it herself. A self-published book by someone ...

Sudi Pigott: Consider the Anchovy

June 18, 2026

This week, we're with travel and food writer, Sudi Pigott to Consider the Anchovy.Part memoir, largely a travelogue, this is a deep dive into the story of a big hitting little fish. Stuffed with maverick, rakish characters, it's a passionate manifesto making the case for the anchovy as a leading mover and shaker in world culinary history.  Rachel Roddy described it as "an anchovy odyssey, a journey in search of a small fish of enormous importance — fascinating, unexpected and utterl...