Jimi Famurewa on the dish he ate on the day his life changed forever and how he got his dream job as restaurant critic for the Evening Standard
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Jimi is a writer, broadcaster and food critic. He is the chief restaurant critic for the Evening Standard, a regular guest judge on the BBC One series MasterChef and was also one of the judges on Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver.
In 2021, he won Restaurant Writer of the Year at both the Fortnum & Mason Awards and the Guild of Food Writers Awards and as an interviewer he has profiled Black African Londoners including Idris Elba, John Boyega and Skepta.
He says the thing he loves most about writing about food is “Food is wordless communication. A way to be creative, clever or reference culture without speaking. I love being a conduit for that, trying to find the words so people can share the experience, almost taste the food.” And when you read his work, this is nothing but the truth with the way he has with words and transporting you to the setting about which he is writing, despite being on the tube or on your sofa.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Desert Island Dishes is brought to you by Lloyd's Bank. |
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| 1:19.6 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 1:24.7 | This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven |
| 1:29.1 | Desert Island dishes. These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of |
| 1:33.9 | their childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose |
| 1:39.8 | to eat before being cast off to the Desert Island. The question is, what would you choose as your last meal? |
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