Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

Gilly Smith

Cooking the Books is about all of life through the prism of food, from climate change to culture and politics to people. It's for foodie book lovers who want to hear something more profound about the way we live, making the link between delicious food and the impact of food production on the land, all through four food moments from the books of our favourite food writers.Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith is the winner of The Guild of Food Writers' Best Broadcast or Podcast Award 2022, and was shortlisted for Fortnum and Mason Best Podcast 2022 and 2024.Hear how A-lister f...

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Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

Episodes (311)

Feb 26th Pary Baban: Nandên
Feb 19th BOSH! More Plants
Feb 12th Tamar Adler: Feast on Your Life

Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

Feb 26, 2026
32½ minutes
25 MB

This week we’re exploring the food and culture of Kurdistan with author of Nandên: Recipes from My Kurdish Kitchen, Pary Baban Born in Southern Kurdistan, in Qaladze, a place known for its resistance and community, Pary fled Kurdistan with her family to escape what became known as the Anfal Genocide, and this is a hard listen. But it’s her passion for using the food of her land in her restaurant Nandine in South London and now the book, Nandên meaning kitchen to keep her Kurdish culture alive after generations of hardship and displa...

Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith

Pary Baban: Nandên

Gilly Smith

00:00 -31:32