Honey & Co.: The Food Talks

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Honey & Co.: The Food Talks is a wonderful podcast, started in 2017, is hosted by Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, owners of Honey (how long does honey last?) & Co. and its sister restaurants (Honey & Spice, Honey & Smoke), a set of traditional Middle Eastern restaurants in London (think quince salads with mint, fresh curd cheeses, pitta breads, lamb shawarma, babkas, preserves, pickles, and freshly baked goods…I’m drooling).

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The podcast is recorded in front of a small audience in their restaurant Honey & Spice, featuring guests from all over the world. The premise is simple: dishes are cooked, either from the guest’s own cookbook or on the suggestion of the guest, an interview is had, and then the food is served. The effect is a feeling of listening to a kind of performative dinner party that could be taking place in your living room (without the satisfaction of eating the food, however – when will they invent virtual taste?). You will be transported to different regions all over the world, hear fabulous stories of the food world from cooking schools to restaurants to bloggers-turned-professionals.

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Sarit and Itamar invite all kinds of people related to the food world: writers, chefs, makers, waiters, drinkers, thinkers – as long as they have something interesting to say about food. Notable guests include Fabrizia Lanza of Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School fame (Sicily), Samin Nosrat (author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat), Nik Sharma (author of A Brown Table), and Joseph Trivelli of River Café.

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Honey & Co. is available to listen to wherever you get your podcasts.

For more about their restaurant and cookbooks:
https://honeyandco.co.uk/