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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello and welcome back to Dish, I’m your host Kate Gibbs. You can find me, my recipes and more of these episodes on my website kategibbs.com 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

In episode seven of Dish, Kate Gibbs talks to Australian Tim Ross. He may be best known for his work on TV and radio - you’ve heard of Merrick and Rosso - he’s Rosso - and at different times he’s hosted both the number one breakfast and drive shows in Sydney.  But comedian Tim Ross has always had a passion for architecture and design. Over the last six years, he has performed his live Man About the House show in architecturally-significant buildings and homes all over the world. Today Tim...

Hello! This is episode six of Dish, and I’m talking with Matt Moran about no waste cooking. I am so happy to sit down with this Sydney-based chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and host of countless shows, including Paddock to Plate and Great Australian Bake Off. But the role Matt perhaps best identifies with is cook - he loves cooking at home and is a font of knowledge on saving time in the kitchen, avoiding food waste, and making food and eating together - entertaining and eating with...

Welcome to episode 5 of Dish with Kate Gibbs, a cooking podcast. In this episode Kate and her mum Suzanne Gibbs ponder whether, and why, mum's food really does taste better, and how to raise unfussy kids - with some really practical tips. Suzanne goes into her wooing prowess in her younger years, and the power of cooking to win the heart of your amour. Fresh from entertaining for friends post rigorous isolation in Sydney, Suzanne tells us about a perfect fish soup, tempura-style vegetables,...

When will we get our mojo back? When will we return to our sparkly selves, and how can we take steps to return to a new and different world? We talk about all this today with Kerrie McCallum, the incredible Editor in Chief at delicious. magazine on Dish.

In episode 3 of Dish, and our first solo episode, Kate Gibbs asks you to think about how you eat, and where, because it's often as important as what you eat. This topic is so important and current, and it's affecting our health and our happiness. Commensality is the practice of eating together. It's amazing for you to cook and eat whole foods, we know this, but we are talking the subtle art of taking a moment; to step away from the screen, talk to someone else and use eating and cooking as a...

Hello and welcome back to Dish podcast. I hope isolation is treating you well. We’ve just heard in Sydney that we can now have a friend over at our house, so I’m doing just that with my guest today. Meg Mason is an author, journalist, humourist and my friend. She’s written for the Financial Times and Vogue, Elle and countless others and she’s written two books with another, a novel, out this year.   In this episode of Dish with Kate Gibbs, Meg jokes of her ability to turn any recipe into...

In this first episode of Dish with Kate Gibbs, former MasterChef Australia judge Matt Preston reflects on how he's cooking now, during this strange time of isolation and eating at home more often. He talks about the power of vegetables, naming baked potatoes and sour cream, sweet potato skins, window boxes filled with herbs, bringing forgotten vegetables back, a vegetable tray bake he loves, and his essential gadgets in his kitchen. Matt Preston gives his tips for feeding vegetarians, but...

Dish with Kate Gibbs is a unique, candid, inspiring and on-point cooking podcast that brings together food experts and all types of home cooks from around Australia and the world. DISH is a conversation around the kitchen table, talking whole food, simple but beautiful everyday cooking, the people who love to cook and love to eat; with real-life, raw examples from the kitchens of our best loved chefs and food experts, as well as inspiring people from all kinds of industries - think actors,...