Great Britain Road Trip: Ottolenghi, Baking for the Queen and Millionaire's Shortbread

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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Food, Arts

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, “The Great British Bake Off” winner Nadiya Hussain shares her hack for bread pudding and what happened when she baked for the queen of England. Plus, pastry chef Caroline Schiff tells us about her favorite treats and her time at St. Andrews; we visit a bar in London that was once an underground public loo; we chat with Yotam Ottolenghi about keeping it simple; and Angela Hui tells the story of growing up in her family’s Chinese restaurant in Wales.

This special episode of Milk Street Radio is made in collaboration with our sponsor Study UK, which encourages people from around the world to study, visit, trade, invest, live and work in the UK. You can learn more about Study UK at https://study-uk.britishcouncil.org

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0:00.0	I'm Christopher Kimball and this special episode of Most Street Radio is a collaboration
0:08.2	with our sponsor, Study UK, which encourages people from all over the world to study, visit, trade, invest, live, and work in the UK.
0:17.0	Today we're sharing a few of our favorite interviews and stories from the United Kingdom.
0:22.0	We'll hear from British food star and restaurateur Yotam Ode Lange.
0:26.0	We'll visit a subterranean bar in London that was once a Victorian bathroom,
0:31.0	and writer Angela Hoyt takes us behind the counter of her family's Chinese
0:36.2	takeaway in Wales. Chinese takeaways took over a lot of fish and chip shops and
0:41.8	they would kind of double up so it would be like
0:44.7	egg fried rice and noodles but with like fish and fried chips so it was this beautiful
0:51.2	mishmash of the two so I guess it was very much like an Anglo-Cantones fair that's
0:57.0	what you would get.
0:59.6	That's coming up later in the show but first it's my interview with Nadia Hussein she's a great British
1:05.1	bake-off winner and the author of Nadia Bakes. Nadia welcome to Milk Street
1:09.6	Thank you so much for having me. You're a very interesting person.
1:14.0	I was looking at your history and resume.
1:17.0	You got a place at King's College, London to study psychology,
1:21.0	but never did, and then you ended up baking. Why did you want to study
1:26.3	psychology? I suppose back then when I think about it, I was quite interested in understanding the mind, but I realized actually I
1:37.3	think I was really desperate to kind of know myself. As a young woman growing up in England from a Bangladeshi home, first generation British, I think it was really hard to kind of really understand who I was and I think that's I think partly the reason why I wanted to do a degree in psychology and also somebody once said to me that you could probably make loads of money as a psychologist.
1:58.0	So I was like, yeah, you know when you're 18 you're like, that's what I want to do. I want to make lots of money. So you said your mother used the
2:06.7	oven to store frying pans. You didn't realize the oven was actually used for baking I guess early
2:11.7	on? No, well we grew up in a family where it was
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