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The Working Girls of Soho – Saucy Tales of Notorious Women – Songs & Stories A fabulous cabaret celebrating Soho’s glorious past. Featuring the club runners, strippers, whores and thieves with song and stories. Josephine Pembroke of Pussies Galore talks about her sell out show featuring the female club runners, strippers, whores and thieves from…

Ghillie delves into the Scottish larder, from salmon to venison and foods foraged from around her remote Scottish home – rowan berries and wood sorrel – and marries them with flavours collected from her travels around the world. As a lover of spices, she has imaginatively paired her delicious dishes with whisky for an imaginative…

Diana’s Chocolates was the perfect solution: When Diana’s family needed her to be at home as both carer and advocate for her son, she knew she had to give up her demanding office job. Her love of chocolates and desire to still work led her to make small batches of delicious and beautiful chocolates. The…

Jo Buckingham’s  first career was in management consultancy but her passion was always food. She combines all the organisation, efficiency and client care from her first career with her love of cooking in her client-led, soup-to-nuts service.  Her team comes in, meets and greets, serves and then does all the clean up. Happy guests, happy…

Dinner with Edward by New York Post Journalist Isabel Vincent Edward had just lost the love of his life and his reason for living. In walks Isabel and their friendship blooms over his carefully and artfully prepared dinners. His extraordinary love affair – ongoing even after death – highlighted the cracks in Isabel’s faltering marriage….

Henrietta Lovell, The Rare Tea Lady   Love a cuppa? Fall in love with La Lovell – you can’t escape her passion and enthusiasm for tea the way we used to drink it before the bag deprived us of the deep pleasure of the full leaf. The Iron Goddess of Mercy lit her fire and…

Sarit Packer, Honey & Co Middle Eastern Chef with Donna Freed   Exuberance personified, Sarit and Itamar’s food is packed with as much personality as flavour. Honey & Co., Honey & Spice and Honey & Smoke are their three locations where they serve the food they love in a variety of styles and settings. The…

    The Flexible Pescatarian with Jo Pratt and Donna Freed  Cookery writer, chef, food stylist, editor and presenter Jo Pratt’s latest cookbook invites you to explore more fish. Fish can be tricky: we don’t always know how to cook it or what fish to use. Jo to the rescue. As with all her books…

Jo Pratt, The Gorgeous Kitchen The Radio Gorgeous Kitchen visits Heathrow Terminal 2’s The Gorgeous Kitchen with Jo Pratt and Donna Freed Jo Pratt, cookery writer, cook, food stylist & presenter is one of four female chefs who preside over Heathrow Terminal 2’s The Gorgeous Kitchen. Jo works with Caroline Artiss, Sophie Michell and Gee…

A Cupboard Full of Spices with chef Kumud Gandhi, Gorgeous Food and Drink: with Donna Freed Kumud Gandhi, the Spice Queen, wants to introduce us to the alchemy of food and balanced spicing. Careful spicing goes beyond seasoning, it is medicinal, nutritional and preservative as well as. She took a career break from the Bank…

Get Healthy with Nutritionist Natasha Hodge & coach Katrina Love on RADIO GORGEOUS Covered in eczema, overweight and addicted to sweets, Natasha was in denial about her terrible diet. Now she is a convert to eating sensibly, listen to her story. Natasha has now become an nutritionist, she met charismatic coach Katrina Love and they have…

  Ella Mills, Deliciously Ella: The Plant Based Cookbook at the Cookbook Festival 2018 with Donna Freed Ella Mills, food writer and entrepreneur under the brand Deliciously Ella focuses on natural food and putting vegetables at the centre of our plates and palates. Her latest book includes tried and tested recipes that she has developed…

  Jack Monroe & City Harvest’s Laura Winningham & Paula Merrony at the Cookbook Festival with Donna Freed  Jack Monroe, campaigner & author of Cooking on a Bootstrap; Laura Winningham, co-founder of City Harvest London and Paula Merrony, head of operations at City Harvest London in conversation with Donna Freed at the Cookbook Festival 2018…

  Jo Pratt & Fran Warde, co-founders Cookbook Festival with Donna Freed   Cookbook authors and friends, Jo Pratt and Fran Warde, along with Lucy Cufflin have come together to found the UK’s very first cookbook festival. There are food festivals and book festivals but this unique festival celebrates the books we cook with and…

  Lucy Cufflin has never been put off by being the first, especially when it comes to food. Her mother was the first foodie she knew and she has been working in food since she was a teen. She is a cookbook author herself, and knows the power of a proper recipe. It was of…

Karin Ridgers the UKS most passionate Vegan – GORGEOUS WELLBEING with Josephine Pembroke   Today we are talking all thing VEGAN and who better to find out about how and why from the UK’s leading VEGAN, Karin Ridgers. Karin gave up a high powered job in banking to dedicate her life to spreading the V word. She…

The Real Cooking Housewives of Chiswick Take on Nigella Lawson: Donna & Josephine in The Gorgeous Kitchen She’s famous for her rich, oozing brownies but does Nigella’s recipe hold up agains the Real Cooking Housewives of Chiswick: Josephine and Donna. The Cooking Housewives get brown and dirty in the bitchy kitchen. It doesn’t get more…

Silla Bjerrum, Robata: Japanese Home Grilling, with Donna Freed  GORGEOUS FOOD on Radio Gorgeous We catch up with chef and cookbook author, Silla Bjerrum as she takes over the kitchen at Charlottes W5, serving food from her latest cookbook. After mastering sushi, where to cut is to cook, Silla has turned to robata – meaning ‘fireside…

Bella Figura How to Live, Love & Eat The Italian Way by Kamin Mohammadi GORGEOUS LIVES with Josephine Pembroke  Imagine eating carbs, olive oil and pasta every day and feeling and looking gorgeous?  Stressed out Londoner Kamin went to live in Florence for a couple of months, she then discovered Bella Figura and her life changed…

Self-Care for the Real World: Nadia Narain & Katia Narain Phillips GORGEOUS WELLBEING with Donna Freed After years of fads and the shoulds and shouldn’ts of self-improvement/punishment, sisters Nadia (yoga teacher to the stars) and Katia (raw food restauranteur) yearned for a kinder approach to life; one that included self-love and self-care. They believe that…