This week, we meet Jago Rackham to talk about his first book, To Entertain: Instructions for a Dinner Party.

But the book is not quite what it seems. The millennial Substacker who hosts supper clubs and pop-ups fashioned as dinner parties, has, with his long term partner, the artist Lowena Hearn, earned the social media title of East London’s power couple. But Gilly finds a rather old-school English couple from another time among the pages of this very literary book.

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This week we’re with the prince of plants, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his High Fibre Heroes.

Hugh and Gilly have been talking about the national diet for years on this show and before it was even born. They both campaign with the Food Foundation for policy change to make healthier food more accessible for every child in the UK, and Hugh's last book How to Eat 30 Plants a Week was all about adding way more colour and texture to the nation’s plate. Now he’s joined the growing family of fibre authors banging in some beans and plenty of veg for the sake of our health.

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This week, we’re back at Patio in Brighton for Cooking the Books Live with Tim Anderson and his latest book, JapanEasy Kitchen

In front of a live audience, we find out about the nine magical Japanese pantry staples which Tim says can transform anything we want to cook, how this white man from Wisconsin has claimed the space in British food media as Mr Japanesasy and his insider tips for the best Japanese finds. We start by talking through his cannon of books ready to be signed and sold on the pop up CookBookBake stall at Patio and noticing just how beautiful they are.

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