S14 Ep24: Diana Henry one of the most prolific and well loved recipe writers of a generation on the dishes that have shaped her life

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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I'm so excited that today Diana Henry is sharing her Desert Island Dishes with me. Diana is one of my favourite recipe writers and it was a total joy to sit down with her. Diana is a multi award-winning food writer, journalist, broadcaster and cook book author. Described as one of the most prolific recipe writers of a generation but also one of the most beloved.

She is the Telegraph’s much-loved cookery writer, After a career as a tv producer - working for both the BBC and Channel 4 - Diana started writing about food after she had her first child.

Through her work with the Telegraph she shares recipes each week for everything from speedy family dinners to special menus that friends will remember for months. She is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and her journalism and recipe books, including Simple and How to Eat a Peach, are multi-award-winning. A mother of two sons, Diana can satisfy even the fussiest of eaters.

Yotam Ottolenghi, has said of her work: “Everything Diana Henry cooks I want to eat.” Whilst Nigella Lawson has said, “She can write a recipe for cucumbers with radishes, cherries and rose petals,” and “With another writer you wouldn’t trust it, but with Diana you want to give it a go because it feels both safe and inspiring.”

Thank you very much to Deliveroo for sponsoring this episode of Desert Island Dishes. You can find out more about the brilliant work Deliveroo and the Trussell Trust are doing together at https://deliveroofulllife.com/

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0:00.0	On behalf of this week's sponsor, I wanted to tell you about the amazing work that Deliveroo and the Trussle Trust have been doing together to support people facing hardships across the UK. To date, Deliveroo and its customers have helped provide over 2 million meals to people through the app and their Roundup and Donate feature, as well as helping to fund vital wraparound services
0:22.7	provided by food banks. Deliveroo have also pledged to increase this number to 4 million meals globally.
0:29.5	Any Deliveroo customer anywhere in the UK can add their support, and it's so easy to do too.
0:35.1	You simply choose to round up your order to the nearest pound when you place it on the app on the checkout page.
0:41.5	If every customer who use Deliveroo, and there are millions every month, rounded up just 10p on one order, the impact would be enormous.
0:51.9	Times are hard right now and a lot of people are struggling to afford the
0:55.3	essentials, leading to food banks needing to support more people than ever before. So this provision
1:01.3	of meals really is crucial to so many people. The money also goes to supporting the food banks
1:07.2	with financial support in the form of advice on debts and benefits, as well as
1:13.1	connections, which will hopefully end the need for food banks and lift people out of poverty
1:18.6	long term. A small donation in this very simple way really can make a huge difference. If you can,
1:25.6	consider rounding up your next order on Deliveroo. You can give as little
1:29.3	or as much as you like. Find out more at Deliveroofullife.com. I'll pop the link in the show notes.
1:36.2	Thank you very much to Deliveroo. Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:46.0	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
1:52.1	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
1:56.3	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before being
2:02.1	cast off to the Desert Island. The question is, what would you choose as your last meal?
2:08.1	Hi, I hope you're all very well. So the saying goes, you should never meet your heroes, but a few
2:13.8	weeks ago, I got to meet one of my food heroes, and I can confirm she's even better in real life.
2:20.2	I've admired Diana Henry's work for as long as I can remember.
2:24.3	I love her writing.
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