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In this episode, Theo is joined by Meera Sodha , best-selling author, Guardian columnist, and one of the most influential voices in modern plant-based cooking. With four acclaimed cookbooks to her name and a weekly Guardian column that has transformed the way Britain thinks about vegetables, Meera's journey from growing up as the only Indian family in a Lincolnshire village to becoming a celebrated food writer is a testament to the power of heritage, resilience, and cooking with purpose. From her early entrepreneurial ventures including the ahead-of-its-time dating site Fancy an Indian to working at Innocent Drinks and eventually finding her calling in food writing, Meera represents a new generation of cooks who celebrate tradition whilst embracing creativity and global influences. Meera prepares her beloved Malaysian Dal Curry , a deeply personal dish that helped her reconnect with cooking after months away from the kitchen during a difficult period in her life. Using red lentils, aromatic lemongrass, fragrant curry leaves, warming spices including cumin and coriander, creamy coconut milk, sweet carrots, and a finishing touch of tangy tamarind paste, this comforting dal is inspired by a memorable meal she shared with her husband in Singapore. This recipe beautifully encapsulates Meera's cooking philosophy - food that brings pleasure, comfort, and connection, rooted in tradition but open to experimentation and the joy of cooking what you truly love to eat. Throughout the episode, Meera shares her remarkable journey from watching her mother cook in their family kitchen to collecting recipes that became her first book, the significance of the wooden spoon her mother gifted her on her 30th birthday, and why tasting ingredients before, during, and after cooking remains the best advice she's ever received. Meera also opens up about her breakdown and how this simple dal helped her find her way back to the kitchen, the influence of her Ugandan heritage and Swahili words in her family's cooking, and why financial security through education was so important to her immigrant parents. You can find Meera's full Malaysian Dal Curry recipe on the Filippo Berio website at www.filippoberio.co.uk/theo , and be sure to check out her cookbooks including her latest, Dinner , for more inspiring plant-based recipes that celebrate pleasure and comfort. The Recipe podcast is hosted by Theo Randall, Chef Patron at the Theo Randall Cucina Italiana. In each episode we meet a special guest who loves food, and they'll tell us all about their favourite recipe as we celebrate the stories behind the dishes that define us. Please do subscribe, follow, and share the podcast wherever you listen so you never miss an episode; and for more delicious stories and inspiring dishes. Follow The Recipe with Theo Randall: /therecipe.podcast ( https://www.instagram.com/therecipe.podcast/ ) Follow Filippo Berio: /filippoberio_uk ( https://www.instagram.com/filippoberio_uk/ ) Follow Theo Randall: /theo.randall ( https://www.instagram.com/theo.randall/ ) The Recipe with Theo Randall is a Listen To This Production for Filippo Berio.

Meera Sodha is a cook and food writer based in London. Meera’s best-selling cookbooks and weekly Guardian column, The New Vegan, are some of my favorite sources of cooking inspiration, but like many people, she experienced burnout that led her to fall out of love with food. Today on the show, Meera talks about finding her way back into the kitchen and how that experience inspired her new book, Dinner , an honest and helpful guide to getting the most important meal of the day on the table. Also on the show we have a conversation with Susan Dominus . Susan is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazin e the author of a terrific new book, The Family Dynamic . We talk about how parents—and siblings—shape and fuel individual success, and focus on family a story with a Chinese restaurant at the center. We also talk about some of Susan's food-related work at the Times . Do you enjoy This Is TASTE? Drop us a review on Apple , or star us on Spotify . We’d love to hear from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Subscribe to get recipes and cookbook links at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com . On this long-awaited episodes, host Maggie Hoffman chats with Guardian columnist and cookbook author Meera Sodha about how she came back to cooking after a period of intense burnout. Meera, whose new book Dinner just came out in the U.S., shares some of the mental health tools that helped her through, as well as the cookbooks and pantry ingredients that inspire her now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Superb chef, food writer and author (including one of Off Menu’s favourite cookbooks, ‘East’) Meera Sodha joins us for a Dream Restaurant booking this week. If anyone says ‘ship’ they have to put 50p in the Naan Jar. Meera Sodha’s new cookbook ‘Dinner’ is out now, published by Penguin. Buy it here . For more of her books visit Meera’s website, meerasodha.com/books Follow Meera on Instagram @meerasodha Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive . Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive . Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design). Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram : @offmenuofficial. And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show. Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s a foodie dream today with our next guest, chef and entrepreneur Meera Sodha. Author of the new vegetarian & vegan cookbook ‘Dinner’, Meera joined us for lunch bringing an absolutely delicious freshly baked honey cake with her! We discovered that Meera learned to cook from her lovely mum who grew up in Uganda, how she became a columnist for the Guardian magazine, her varied (and wild!) past careers, setting up her own dating agency 'Fancy an Indian?’(!), how she started writing cookbooks with the help of a smoothie company, and the fabulous story of how she met her husband (it’s like a Netflix romcom). Plus, she really gives Nigel Slater a run for his money with her incredible ways of describing food. Meera’s new vegan and vegetarian cookbook ‘Dinner’ is available to buy now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Gilly is with Meera Sodha, author of Made In India The Times’ book of the year in 2014, Fresh India, which won the 2017 Observer Food Monthly's Best New Cookbook Award, East which drew from her Guardian’s New Vegan column, and now Dinner, with a rather different story. This is about the food that helped her recovery from burn out, scribbled in her orange notebooks which, after three years of not being able to cook at all, she would cook only for pleasure. She talked to her just after a piece she wrote about her breakdown for the Guardian prompted an outpouring of love, support and sharing and asked if she felt that she had inadvertently touched a nerve. Head over to Gilly’s Substack for Extra Bites from Meera including original recipes from her orange notebooks side by side with the finished product in a rather beautiful meditation on process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Paris 2024 Olympics was set to be the first where men could compete alongside women in the synchronised swimming. Bill May has been campaigning for this change for the last 30 years. He speaks to Nuala about why he thinks men should be included in the sport. Food writer Meera Sodha’s new cookbook - Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day - pays homage to the restorative power of cooking for the ones you love. Meera says it was written in the midst of ‘a difficult personal time and much reflection.’ She joins Nuala to talk mental health and rediscovering her love for food. Do you have any idea what your IQ is? New analysis from The Economist shows that brain development is being hindered across the world due to a lack of nutrition, war and even sexism - issues mainly affecting women and children. Are they getting left behind? Nuala is joined by the Deputy Editor of The Economist, Robert Guest and Dr Meera Shekar, Global Lead for Nutrition at The World Bank’s Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice. Emma O’Halloran’s opera, Mary Motorhead, tells the story of a woman who is behind bars for murder. Emma speaks to Nuala about showing a different side to the stereotypical female opera lead. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lottie Garton

We're honoured to be joined by one of the best selling cookbook writers and chefs of the last 10 years in Meera Sodha, to hear about her incredibly emotional burnout and breakdown, which ended up killing her love for food and life for a number of years. We also find out how she managed to finally escape from the darkness and fall back in love with cooking, resultng in her latest book; 'Dinner'. Meera also entertains us with her memories of her mothers exquisite gujarati food, perfect Paris foody weekends, starting a failed dating app called 'Fancy An Indian', working alongside our very own Ben Benton to create her books and Guardian columns, her admiration for KFC's seasoning and much more..... ----------------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Order Dinner Now - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dinner-vegan-vegetarian-recipes-important/dp/0241488001 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More highlights from the Olympics stick in Jane and Fi's minds and we hope they bring you some light during this difficult week. They also cover bins (again), Beaver leaders and kindles. Plus, Jane speaks to chef Meera Sodha about her latest cookbook 'Dinner'. Our next book club pick has been announced! 'Missing, Presumed' is by Susie Steiner. If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio. Follow us on Instagram! @janeandfi Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Giles Yeo learns how to make a Thai green curry with Meera Sodha. This is a recipe without meat or prawns but with tofu and lots of vegetables. If we need to eat less meat and dairy to help prevent global warming- what difference will altering our diets make to our health. For a long time now people have been urged to cut down on red meat and processed foods but if you have been eating them all your life it takes an effort to develop new habits. Plant based products that can replace for example dairy milks, cheeses, sausages, burgers and meat based dishes such as lasagne can be helpful in making this transition but are they healthier?

Cook, food writer. columnist and celebrated author of ‘Made in India’ and ‘East’ - the wonderful and vibrant Meera Sodha joins Alex on our ‘This is a Token’ podcast for a chat about her most treasured pieces of jewellery. From an enamelled Jemima Puddle-duck brooch she has treasured since she was 4 years old, to a cinnamon red Rudraksha seed bead gifted to her by a beloved grandmother, whose touch keeps her grounded in uncertain moments. Listen in as Alex and Meera have a rich and uplifting discussion about a her life experiences as a creative home cook inspired by her Gujarat Indian and Ugandan roots, to harnessing the mood of food, relishing the ‘happiness’ of coriander seeds and the process of taking a toolbox of precious ingredients and conjuring up something truly magical! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cathy dials up Meera Sodha , bestselling author (and The Guardian’s vegan columnist) to chat about her latest cookbook . We talk about how her book thoughtfully incorporates the cuisines of many Asian countries, and how Meera collaborated with the home cooks and chefs she met on her culinary journeys. We'll also hear about some of Meera's favorites from the book's 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes, which include the likes of Mushroom Bao, Pumpkin Malai Kari, Brussels Sprout Nasi Goreng and Salted Miso Brownies. Image Courtesy of Flatiron Books Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Eat Your Words by becoming a member ! Eat Your Words is Powered by Simplecast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Memory gives us the chance to speak to three authors who all approach this theme from completely different directions. Eimear McBride takes us to a series of hotel rooms to see what memories they unearth and how they can warp and change over time. Bestselling food writer Meera Sodha shares some of her first food memories and why preserving family recipes is so important. And Nicci Gerrard shares her personal experience of her father’s dementia and why it encouraged her to write What Dementia Teaches Us About Love . Books mentioned: What Dementia Teaches Us About Love , Strange Hotel , East , Somebody I Used To Know , The Sense of an Ending , Playthings

Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering. I’m only bloody hoovering with one of my culinary heroes this week. It’s the absolute superhero food writer Meera Sodha. WAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I FUCKING KNOW. She’s the absolute best, and poetic in how articulately she tells her stories. What a massive treat for everyone involved. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019 The next live hoovering is on Saturday 2nd May at the beautiful MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL at 7.15pm. Come come come! Then on 13th May we’re up in Hull at the first and best ever official NORTHERN PODCAST FESTIVAL Honourable Mentions If you don’t already follow MEERA SODHA on social media, you must. And if you don’t already won her latest book EAST , get it now, not just for you but for everyone you’ve ever loved. I would very much love to have you come and see my stand up show HENCH , which now up and off on TOUR all around the UK, IRELAND and MELBOURNE . Come! All my tickets are on sale now and they’re selling out like wildfire. Outside of that I’ll be doing new material gigs and I’m always sticking new dates on MY WEBSITE so have a check. The Hoovering Live dates go on there too. THIS IS THE RECIPE for the salted miso brownies that Meera made us. She mentioned an extraordinary sounding posh Italian restaurant in north London called TRULLO Turns out we studied at the same time at LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS I rave about the dosas I had in Leicester at HERB KAYAL She talks about training at DOCK KITCHEN which no longer exists but it redirects to its creators. Meera taught me about a load of important food people. Bread activist ANDREW WHITLEY ; FERGUS HENDERSON ; Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering . Hosted on Acast. See <a

Meera Sodha shares her recipe for a delicious twist on Chilli paneer.

delicious. books series: Meet vegan and vegetarian food writer Meera Sodha as she cooks up a recipe for kimchi pancakes from her new book East and gives delicious. magazine’s Gilly Smith a masterclass in Asian storecupboard ingredients. &#10; See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Libby Purves meets illustrator and author Liz Pichon; pianist Melvyn Tan; travel writer Dan Richards and food writer Meera Sodha. Dan Richards is a travel writer. In his book Climbing Days, he is on the trail of his great-great aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. Using Dorothy's 1935 memoir Climbing Days as a guide, Dan begins to travel and climb across Europe, ending up at the serrate pinnacle of his aunt's climbing life, the mighty Dent Blanche in the high Alps of Valais. Climbing Days is published by Faber. Meera Sodha is a food writer and cook. In her book Fresh India she celebrates Indian vegetarian dishes. Many of the recipes were passed down through her family, her mother in particular who was brought up in Uganda but came to the UK after Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of the Asian minority in 1972. The recipes in Fresh India are inspired by Meera's childhood in Lincolnshire: by the rainbow chard that her aunt and uncle used to grow on their allotment, the cabbage that grew in fields behind her house and the mushrooms that were plentiful in her garden. Fresh India is published by Penguin. Melvyn Tan is British Singaporean-born pianist. To celebrate his 60th birthday this year he is exploring a new spectrum of compositions including a new score written for him by Jonathan Dove which he is including in his Cheltenham Music Festival recital. Born in Singapore, Melvyn came to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School at 12. In 1980 he made the decision to specialise in fortepiano and more recently began exploring works on the modern concert grand piano. Melvyn is performing at the Cheltenham Music Festival. Liz Pichon is an illustrator and author. Her 10th book in the Tom Gates series, Super Good Skills (Almost...), is a colourful doodle-your-own extravaganza. After studying graphic design Liz started her career in the music industry, working as an art director before turning her hand to the world of children's books. She later went on to create the bestselling Tom Gates series which has sold over 2m books in the UK alone and has been translated into more than 40 languages. Super Good Skills (Almost...) is published by Scholastic Children's Books. Producer: Paula McGinley.

The best Indian food is cooked (and eaten) at home. Real Indian food is fresh, simple and packed with flavour. Tune in to a brand new episode of Sharp & Hot as guest host Joe Carson is joined by Meera Sodha, author of MADE IN INDIA. In the book, Meera introduces Britain to the food she grew up eating here every day. Unlike the stuff you get at your local curry house, her food is fresh, vibrant and surprisingly quick and easy to make. In this collection, Meera serves up a feast of over 130 delicious recipes collected from three generations of her family: there’s everything from hot chappatis to street food, fragrant curries, to colourful side dishes and mouth-watering puddings. “When your’e a kid and you eat stuff your mom puts in front of you, you don’t think to ask where it came from or what the origin of the dish is.” [06:00] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .