Bread & Butter

You’re now listening to Bread & Butter with Caroline Kenyon. Caroline and her guests make sense of the world through food, from politics to farming, making and cooking. Produced by FoodFM @foodfmradio.

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Framed! World’s Best Food Photos
Caroline Kenyon talks to Liz Galbraith, creative director and Rein Skullerud, Head, Photo Unit, UN World Food Programmes, about the shortlist for Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2024 - listen in to hear their favourites!
32 min
2
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Farmer
As Mind Your Head week approaches, Caroline Kenyon talks to Stephanie Berkeley of Farm Safety Foundation about their farmers’ mental health initiative, Sarah Dyke MP for Somerton & Frome who is supporting the week, and Gilly Steel, of Lincolnshire Rural Support Network. For more information, head to Mind Your Head Week (https://www.yellowwellies.org/welcome-to-the-6th-annual-mind-your-head-week/)
19 min
3
Pasta la Vista
Caroline Kenyon talks pasta with Finn Laguna, co founder of Pasta Evangelista, taking the UK by storm as it opens the country’s largest fresh pasta factory.
26 min
4
Cooking it up with Harry Hill!
Caroline Kenyon talks food, cookery and charities with one of the UK’s favourite comedians, Harry Hill, as he prepares to host his Meatball Month special supper for family and friends to raise funds for Muscle Help Foundation, providing once-in-a-lifetime experiences for children and young people with muscular dystrophy.
24 min
5
Icing on the Cake
Caroline Kenyon talks our favourite, happy-making foodstuff with writer Andrew Baker (his latest book is Cake: A Slice of British Life), Stephen Hallam MBE, master baker and Judge of the Tiptree Cake Award, and Loria Stern, Los Angeles-based culinary artist and cake baker.
33 min
6
The Joy of Food Together
Caroline Kenyon talks to Juliane Caillouette Noble, MD of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, about their new global Power of Food campaign, championing the power of food and community.
26 min
7
Dine Away from the Desk!
Caroline Kenyon talks to Vanessa Feltz about British office lunch habits - and how we need to change them for the better
8 min
8
What's the Future of Farming?
Caroline Kenyon talks to Ed Gorst, who has just convened a first gathering for British young famers on his family farm in Lincolnshire. Loneliness, diversification, succession were all on the menu.
24 min
9
No Flash in the Pan!
Caroline Kenyon talks the entrepreneurial journey with Danny Winer, founder of Hexclad, the pans Gordon Ramsay loves so much he bought into the business
23 min
10
Picture This!
The world's best food photos this year have just been announced. Hear them chewed over by Caroline Kenyon with Liz Galbraith and Emma Sleight, judges of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023.
35 min
11
Local Cooks with Large Ambitions
Caroline Kenyon talks to Claire Ladkin, Founder of All About the Cooks, a unique and growing platform connecting home-based cooks with local customers, with two of the cooks - Mrunal, aviation engineer by day, cook by night, and Priscilla, Brazilian-French, channelling her love of baking.
23 min
12
Short & Sweet
Carolien Kenyon talks to longstanding judges of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, Liz Galbraith, Creative Director and Emma Sleight, M&S Head of Food Content, about some of their favourite images in the stunning 2023 Shortlist See here for images discussed! https://foodfmradio.com/the-gallery
35 min
13
The Great British Tomato Shortage
Caroline Kenyon talks to Dr Sean Rickard, former Chief Economist of the NFU and Liz Webster, farmer and founder of Save British Food about empty supermarket shelves and where we're heading
26 min
14
For Love of Lebanon
Caroline Kenyon talks to chef/campaigner Asma Khan, newly World Food Chef Advocate, and Rasha Abou Dargham of WFP Lebanon, about their recent travels through the country together, where 1 in 3 is supported by WFP, to bear witness to the scale of the operation and the inspirational projects that bring hope.
27 min
15
Never too young to start!
Caroline Kenyon catches up with 15-year old Thien Leitenberger, already running his own organic cafe in north west Ireland. He shares his food ethos and his exciting ambitions.
17 min
16
Roots, Spice and Sierra Leone
Caroline Kenyon learns about the food of Sierra Leone from chef Maria Bradford, blazing a trail in the UK for the food of her home country - and how she'll be spending Christmas
28 min
17
Porridge, Pudding and Poetry
Ian McMillan, one of Britain's greatest contemporary poets, talk to Caroline Kenyon about his food memories and a lifelong passion for Yorkshire pudding.
32 min
18
Nourish the Mind
Food and mental health is a fast growing area of interest - Caroline Kenyon talks to Lauren Lovatt, founder, Plant Academy, about her beautiful and fascinating new book with health-giving recipes, Mind Food.
27 min
19
Growing up Above the Shop
Angela Hui, author of acclaimed book Takeaway talks to Caroline Kenyon about her childhood growing up in her parents' Chinese takeaway business in deepest Wales, while Khalil Radwan tells the tale of moving from the city aged 9 when his parents changed course from academia to starting the UK's first organic halal farmEp 24
35 min
20
Keen as Mustard!
Caroline Kenyon talks to condiment king Guy Tullberg of Tracklements and chef Rachel Green about the global shortage of Dijon mustard, the history of mustard and where mustard is going in the 21st century.
20 min
21
Take 13!
Caroline Kenyon talks to campaigning food writer Alex Renton about his new book 13 Foods that Shape our World, a panoramic sweep of everything from oils to spices, cocoa, bread and tomatoes, taking in politics, economics, geography and power on the way
22 min
22
Tea for Three!
In the run up to National Cream Tea Day, Caroline Kenyon talks to three experts about the uniquely British cream tea, its evolution from aftrenoon tea, why and how it makes us happy. With Kit Kemp, Founder & Creative Director, Firmdale Hotels, Lizzie Collingham, food historian, Kimberley Wilson, psychologist and Finalist, Great British Bake Off.
27 min
23
Greatest Food Shots Served Up
Caroline Kenyon talks to Emma Sleight, Head of Food Content, M&S, and Liz Galbraith, creative director, about the dazzling winning images of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2022
31 min
24
Join the Kew!
Caroline Kenyon talks to Jenny Linford, acclaimed author, about her latest book, The Kew Gardens Cookbook, a glorious collection of plant-based recipes from many of the UK's greatest chefs and food writers, alongside two of the contributors, fellow food writers Sumayya Usmani and Jenny Chandler.
28 min
25
Takes Two to Tango
Caroline Kenyon talks to Mark Sisson, US fitness writer and food blogger, about his latest book, Two Meals Day, about how we eat too much, of the wrong kinds of food, at the wrong time of the day - and how people can break free.
28 min