Zena Kamgaing on how she's only eaten her favourite sandwich once in the last 10 years, how her cooking has evolved and getting her big break with Jamie Oliver.
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Zena Kamgaing. Zena describes herself as a passionate home-chef, recipe creator and food enthusiast.
Before going full time as a freelance recipe creator, She worked for a charity and ran their anti human trafficking initiative, worked for a food media company as head of ops before working at Mob kitchen – the food media platform. Zena burst onto the food creator scene when she appeared on Jamie Oliver’s Cook Book Challenge and since then her career has gone from strength to strength. She has since appeared on Lorraine, has garnered a huge online following and this seems to be just the start.
Thank you very much to our sponsor for today's episode, Nestlé Carnation. Head to their website for a whole load of recipe inspiration: https://www.carnation.co.uk
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And thank you to my brilliant producer Georgie for all your help as always. https://www.rutherfordproductions.co.uk
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| 0:41.5 | waiting for you there too. Thank you very much to Nestle Carnation. |
| 0:48.3 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes. |
| 0:59.0 | These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, |
| 1:03.0 | the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the desert island. |
| 1:11.6 | The question is, what would you choose as your last meal? |
| 1:15.2 | Hi, I hope it all very well. I'm very excited today as I've just had the most amazing brand |
| 1:21.2 | agreed to do a giveaway with the Dinner Tonight newsletter. Just firming up the details as we |
| 1:26.0 | speak, but this is so good. It's a kind of giveaway. |
| 1:29.9 | I actually want to enter myself, but I need to check what the rules would be on that. So if you |
| 1:34.5 | haven't yet signed up, this is a good time to do it. You can do it by going to the website, |
| 1:39.2 | desert island dishes.co. It's free for everyone every other week. And then if you pay just 76 p a week, you get recipes |
| 1:48.0 | every single week and also lots more planned. |
| 1:51.3 | I was going to say sorry for talking about the newsletter again, but I'm actually not sorry |
| 1:56.2 | because I'm so excited about it. |
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