Hello! This is Dish, a cooking podcast set in Sydney, Australia - I’m Kate Gibbs your host. Today the writer and MasterChef Australia judge Melissa Leong joins me on the show. I should preface this episode with an explanation that we refer a lot to Melissa’s Instagram profile, simply because it’s so inspiring from a food angle and such a clear perspective of what Melissa eats and how she cooks. So when we talk about her homemade hash, her “fridge dive dinners” or her “put on egg on everything” ideas, just take a peek at her Instagram grid and you’ll get what we mean.  Melissa Leong co-ho ..read more

Manu Feildel has become one of the most popular food personalities on Australian television as co-host of the My Kitchen Rules series. And today he joins me on episode 16 of Dish, a cooking podcast set in Sydney, Australia. I’m your host Kate Gibbs.  Manu, a cookbook author and chef, has appeared in so many television shows - from Around the World with Manu to Manu’s American Road Trip, My France with Manu, Ready Steady Cook, Boys Weekend and even Dancing with the Stars.  But today we talk food very much at home. We’re still in lockdown in Sydney, though the restrictions are slowly ..read more

Silvia Colloca is a supremely inspiring, wonderful cook who makes me want to cook more often, and better. This cookbook author and television host describes having a soup as being “a hug from an angel”, I just love it - this episode brought immense joy into my day, my week. This is episode 15 of Dish, a cooking podcast set in Sydney, Australia. I’m your host Kate Gibbs.  Recorded as Sydney entered yet another lockdown this Australian winter, Silvia Colloca talks about protecting her own space and finding time for herself, particularly with kids doing home schooling and little ones around ..read more

Hello! I cannot wait for you to hear this episode. This is episode 14 of Dish with Kate Gibbs, a cooking podcast set in increasingly sunny Sydney, Australia.   Today the fun, smart and switched on chef Darren Robertson joins me on the show to talk about being more conscious, more deliberate and ethical with our food choices and the way we live.  Darren talks about worm farming, composting, growing your own food in even the smallest space, as well as his expansive Three Blue Duck in Byron Bay. He tells how he gets his young children into the family bee hives, as well as involvin ..read more

Hello! I cannot wait for you to hear this episode. This is episode thirteen of Dish with Kate Gibbs, a cooking podcast set in increasingly sunny but still in lockdown Sydney. Today Justine Schofield, an original Masterchef contestant and long-running host of the show Everyday Gourmet, joins me on the show. After you’ve listened to this episode, check in to my instagram account @kategibbs to win one of three copies of Justine’s new book The Slow Cook!  Justine is also a friend, who I’ve not seen for too long thanks to a certain global pandemic. Today we talk about slow cooking, how we do ..read more

Australia has a difficult relationship with fire - it has ravaged our landscape in recent years, destroying homes and lives, and yet it is a principal means by which we connect with each other food. The humble barbecue is one of our favourite pastimes, and while we’ve mastered the techniques in recent years, no longer blackening steaks into dried inedibles as we once did, it’s rare to find an Australian home without a barbecue in the backyard or balcony.  My guest today is the master of barbecue, and fire. Lennox Hastie starred in an entire episode of the celebrated Netflix documentary C ..read more

Hello and welcome back to Dish, I’m your host Kate Gibbs. This is episode eleven. This is a kind of prepping-you-for-the-next-season episode as it was recorded as borders were closing in Queensland amid Covid and what is strange listening to it is how very little things have changed - even with vaccinations on the way now. This is BENJAMIN LAW - author, writer, host of Radio National’s Stop Everything - on the show today. He talks about racing through the border to get to his family and trying to have family meals while actually physically separated.  You probably know Benjamin as that r ..read more

Hello! I cannot wait for you to hear this episode. This is episode eight of Dish with Kate Gibbs, a cooking podcast set in increasingly sunny Sydney, Australia. Today the extraordinary Colin Fassnidge joins me on the show to talk charity through food. The Banksia executive chef and My Kitchen Rules judge makes us laugh, we learn so much, and basically I want to eat and cook everything he talks about. Our conversation takes place in a small -  but still legal under current restrictions - room.  Since Covid-19 hit and his restaurant was forced to close, Colin has become a posterboy of ..read more

Hello and welcome back to Dish, I’m your host Kate Gibbs. This is episode ten and today I have the remarkable Magdalena Roze - cookbook author, entrepreneur, meteorologist and Byron Bay local - on the show.  We talk “going wild” - from camping (and the best crumpets ever), the best food markets - in Adelaide, Sydney, Byron Bay and elsewhere - making fermented foods with kids and long into our old age, and cooking food from scratch - as well as creating communities around us.  In this episode we look at the remarkable recent changes in the way many of us now eat, turning to real food ..read more

Hello and welcome back to Dish, a cooking podcast. I’m your host Kate Gibbs. This is episode nine and today I have Carol Ferrone, the time travelling mum on the extraordinary social and historical show everyone loves on the ABC right now, Further Back in Time for Dinner.  I appeared on the show this season, in the 1930s, as Carol and her family navigated the 1930s, including The Great Depression, which hit most Australians very hard. We cook and I muster all the insights I have (many passed down to me from my grandmother Margaret Fulton) on thrifty cooking, no waste, and the clever ways ..read more