Who Run The World? Andi Oliver

01/17/20 • 34 min

The first episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food.

Since the start of Honey & Co women have reigned supreme; they run our kitchens, our front of house and our offices, and we finally feel that the industry is starting to catch up with us. Women are now leading the way across the industry, not just as chefs but as food critics, as writers, as culinary teachers, tv and radio presenters and so much more.

So, with International Women’s Day on the horizon we wanted to dedicate a whole season to some of the women who inspire us every single day!

Today’s guest is Andi Oliver, she’s the most vivacious and beautiful person we’ve had the chance to meet this year. The interview with her is absolutely hilarious. We talked about her career in a punk band, and how she made the transition to chef and then to food broadcaster. Her show The Great British Menu is one of our absolute favourite shows, you should watch it - we spend hours arguing over what we would make!

Listen to find out more about how she managed to get where she is and how she broke the glass ceiling. We are also so excited to hear about her current project collecting recipes from all around the Caribbean, Wadadli Kitchen.

This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food. Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.

Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!

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Instagram: @honeyandco @andioliver

Find out more about the series here – www.honeyandco.co.uk/TheFoodTalks

#HoneyAndCo #TheFoodTalks #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Manager: Louisa Cornford
Vocals: Kristine Kruz

The first episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food.

So, with International Women’s Day on the horizon we wanted to dedicate a whole season to some of the women who inspire us every single day!

This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food. Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.

Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!

Email us at [email protected]

Instagram: @honeyandco @andioliver

Find out more about the series here – www.honeyandco.co.uk/TheFoodTalks

#HoneyAndCo #TheFoodTalks #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Producer: Miranda Hinkley
Manager: Louisa Cornford
Vocals: Kristine Kruz

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S06E06 Nothing Fancy with Alison Roman

Alison Roman is a columnist for the New York Times Food section and Bon Appétit contributor. She is the author of the bestselling Dining In. Alison has worked professionally in kitchens such as New York’s Momofuku Milk Bar and San Francisco’s Quince. We talk all about her new book, Nothing Fancy, where Alison makes any night of the week worth celebrating. She believes it’s not entertaining, it’s having people over. We apologised to leeks, fawned over anchovies and much more!

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Who Run The World? Claudia Roden

This is the second episode of our Who Run The World? season celebrating women in food.

Today’s guest is Claudia Roden, the goddess of Middle Eastern food writing. Claudia is a cookbook writer and anthropologist, her career spans over 50 years. Originally from Egypt, Claudia grew up in Cairo and studied in Paris and London. In 1956 when her parents fled Egypt to London, Claudia began collecting recipes from the Jewish diaspora arriving from all over the Middle East as a way to make a connection between refugees and their homelands. This led to multiple bestselling cookbooks including the international award-winning The Book of Jewish Food, and she revolutionised western attitudes to Middle Eastern cuisines in 1968 with her bestselling cookbook, A Book of Middle Eastern Food.

We talked to Claudia about her unusual route to a career in food writing, how attitudes to women working have changed over the last 50 years, the women who inspired her, and how travelling alone as a woman was treated with suspicion yet opened many kitchen doors for her research. Claudia is a true inspiration, our hero, and we owe so much to her in paving the way for us.

This interview is part of our series Who Run The World? Women in Food in which we will be chatting to leading women across the food industry, writers, broadcasters, critics, chefs and restaurateurs.

Our final episode will air on 8th March International Women’s Day.

Got something to say? Share your thoughts, feelings and questions with us!

Email us at [email protected]

Instagram: @honeyandco

Find out more about the series here – www.honeyandco.co.uk/TheFoodTalks

#HoneyAndCo #TheFoodTalks #WomenInFood #WhoRunTheWorld

Listen to episode 1 with Andi Oliver

Producer: Miranda Hinkley

Manager: Louisa Cornford

Vocals: Kristine Kruz