Meera Sodha

This week I have a very exciting guest who I was fortunate enough to record with in person in her cozy living room with our sweet pups as we talked all about Food, Vegan eating and the creativity of Cooking. Caitlin grew up in a small city outside Ann Arbor Michigan with her brother and parents. From the start she grew up eating a different diet than many of her peers and her chosen diet has evolved over the years influenced by her love of animals and the environment. She currently lives in the DC metro area and loves the incredible food diversity of her surrounding community having fun exploring flavors and bringing them into the creativity of her kitchen Cait and I dive deep into her journey with food and how her convictions made the choices easy but still left her with plenty to learn as she rounded out her plate every meal. As we chatted Vegan eating, we talked about so many food profiles, cookbooks and places where she has drawn inspiration. As a primarily plant-based vanlife girly I loved getting to sit down at Cait’s table for a week of tasty dinners expanding my own vegan recipe book while visiting her during my east coast spring. After chatting with Cait I got to snag her partner and my friend Matt for a few minutes to talk to him about his own experiences since meeting Cait with becoming a primary plant-based eater as well. If you are interested in any of the books or blogs mentioned by Caitlin check out the check out the links below for websites, titles and author details. Post Punk Kitchen: www.theppk.com I can cook Vegan – by Isa Chandra Moskowitz Norah Cooks - www.noracooks.com East: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing – by Meera Sodha Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day by Meera Soda Amrikan: 125 Recipes from the Indian American Diaspora by Khushbu Shah Please consider following and reviewing this podcast wherever you listen and join us on Instagram @DownbytheRiver_Podcast for bonus content, updates and more. If you would like to follow along Maggie and my travels join us on Instagram and tiktok @VanosaurandMaggie that’s V A N O S A U R and Maggie.

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.

Episode 165 May 22, 2025 On the Needles 2:36 ALL KNITTING LINKS GO TO RAVELRY UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. Please visit our Instagram page @craftcookreadrepeat for non-Rav photos and info Succulents 2025 Blanket CAL by Mallory Krall, Hue Loco DK in Air Plant– DONE Paul Klee sweater by Midori Hirose, Kelbourne Woolens Camper in strawberry heather, light pink heather, graphite heather, plum heather, gray heather April Colorwork Cuff Club socks by Summer Lee, Must Stash Yarns Perfect Match sock in Jelly Belly, Anzula Lunaris in Elephant, Destination Yarn Postcard stitches west 2019 Noteworthy by Hunter Hammerson, little Skein 80/20 sock in Bluebook On the Easel 13:20 Heritage/heirloom roses Floral series! On the Table 19:00 Chicken with Artichokes, Sun Dried Tomatoes and Feta from What Goes With What by Julia Turshen Roasted Turnips with red onion, lentils and wasabi aioli from Tenderheart by Hetty Lui McKinnon Borlotti beans, chopped salad and tahini from Dinner by Meera Sodha Chickpea flour pancakes with coconut chutney from Dinner by Meera Sodha Miso-pickled vegetables (next time, slice english cucumber thicker) Strawberry Pretzel Bar (May I recommend a purchased fruit tart from Noe Valley Bakery ?) On the Nightstand 31:40 We are now a Bookshop.org affiliate! You can visit our shop to find books we’ve talked about or click on the links below. The books are supplied by local independent bookstores and a percentage goes to us at no cost to you! Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir, trans by Mary Robinette Kowal The Favourites by Layne Fargo When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross Vintage Roses and Peonies by Jane Eastoe, photographed by Georgianna Lane Ranunculus , Lilacs , and Dahlias by Naomi Slade, photographed by Georgianna Lane Bingo 51:58 Starts friday may 23, ends Mon Sept 1 Need to post a photo of completed Bingo with #CCRRsummerbingo2025 to instagram or Ravelry.

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.

Meike Krüger - ook wel bekend als Mokumeet - is in het dagelijks leven psychotherapeut maar praat vandaag met host Petra Possel over haar nieuwe boek Carbs, carbs, carbs ; koolhydraten dus. Met een frisse blik komt Meike Krüger op voor de positieve kanten van koolhydraten in ons menu. Eerder kwam zij met het populaire kookboek Een Tafel Vol. Veel vegetarische gerechten met smaken uit alle windstreken. Kookboekenrecensent Karin van Munster is ook van de partij en bespreekt vandaag het nieuwe boek Bij Meera aan tafel van Meera Sodha maar praat ons en passant ook even bij over de nominaties voor het Gouden Kookboek 2024. De nominatie Bloem, suiker, boter - De geheimen van beter bakken van Nicola Lamb is de enige die nog niet eerder aan de orde is geweest in Smakelijk. Keukenprins Pieter serveert een variatie van de pastaklassieker uit Bij Meera aan tafel: pasta met wodka en gochujang . Eet het in je bikini op het strand op Mykonos met een magnum rosé, zo adviseert Meera Sodha ons. Met dank aan onze Culinaire Vriend Terre Lente . Wil je ook Culinaire Vriend worden? Mail dan met adverteren@smakelijkpodcast.nl

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.

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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.