About this episode

Gilly Smith discusses the shortlist for the Jane Grigson Trust Sous Chef Awards with judges Nicola Lando and Jeremy Lee.

This week we’re discussing the shortlist for the  Jane Grigson Trust–Sous Chef Award  2026 with two of the judges, Nicola Lando and Jeremy Lee. This year, it celebrates its 10th anniversary with a stunning shortlist of books about secret kitchens and migrant stories which will all be featured here on CTB when they’re out in the bookshops. Ahead of next week’s awards, Gilly asks Nicola, founder of Sous Chef and a graduate of her How to Cook a Book food writing retreat, and Jeremy Lee, award-winning author of Cooking and chef proprietor at Awards HQ, Quo Vadis, what they look for in a winner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Gilly

Guests: Nicola Lando, Jeremy Lee

Topics covered

• Jane Grigson Trust
• Sous Chef Award
• food writing
• migrant stories
• cookbooks

Keywords

• shortlist
• awards
• cooking
• books

Mentioned in this episode

Products: cookbooks

Books & works: Sous Chef Awards, the Jane Grigson Trust–Sous Chef Award 2026, How to Cook a Book, Cooking

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