S14 Ep28: Tara Wigley, cook and in-house writer for Team Ottolenghi and author of the non recipe recipe book How to Butter Toast

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Tara Wigley

Tara spent a decade working in publishing–before going to cookery school in Ireland. Where she spent 3 months with her twin toddlers and her dog. She has developed, tested, and writen recipes for Ottolenghi’s weekly column in the Guardian magazine and monthly New York Times’s columns, as well as for his cookbooks.

She is the co-author of the award-winning Falastin, - in-house writer of Team Ottolenghi, Yotam’s co-author on eight of the biggest food books, including the million-seller, Ottolenghi Simple.. and mother of teen twins and a tween.

Her hilarious and often biting ditties on Instagram have won her a new audience which is interested more in her own voice; How to Butter Toast is a recipe book without recipes, a rhyming route through the how-tos of cooking which is both reassuring and entertaining.

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0:00.0	This episode of Desert Island Dishes is brought to you in partnership with Discover Great Veg.
0:05.2	I don't know about you, but I find myself cooking more and more vegetable-centric dishes,
0:10.2	almost really without realizing.
0:12.4	And this time of year, Cavaloner and spinach are two of my hero ingredients.
0:17.7	I love them both so much.
0:19.0	They're so versatile and delicious, whether steamed, boiled,
0:23.2	brazed or stir-fried. For example, super green pasta sauce with caviloneiro, lots of spinach,
0:30.5	garlic, a little lemon, always together and then stirred through hot pasta is such a quick and easy
0:37.1	weeknight supper. I also love using
0:39.8	Cavalonero and spinach where you blitz them together as the base for a chimituri-style sauce,
0:45.5	which you can then serve with crispy roasted new potatoes and lots of yoghurt, maybe some pickled
0:51.3	red onion, so incredibly delicious and so easy too. For lots of delicious
0:56.1	ideas for ways that you can cook Cavalonero and spinach, head to www.discover greatvege.com.
1:03.5	These are ingredients that are readily available from your nearest shop. They're affordable,
1:09.9	healthy, and by eating vegetables that are in
1:12.7	season, you actually make your life as a cook so much easier because there's less you need to do
1:18.1	to them to make them taste incredible. Thank you very much to discover great veg.
1:26.1	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:31.2	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
1:37.4	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
1:41.4	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they
1:45.8	would choose to eat before being cast off to the Desert Island. The question is, what would
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