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The Kitchen Is On Fire

Food writer James Ramsden and musician Sam Herlihy dish up a weekly offering of food-related nonsense, exploring the complex and often confusing world of modern gastronomy. One minute they might be di... Read more

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Ep201: The Food Of Sichuan | Featuring Chinese food expert and author Fuchsia Dunlop

Ep201: The Food Of Sichuan | Featuring Chinese food expert and author Fuchsia Dunlop

After last week and the incredible staging of their own (podcast) deaths, James and Sam return to the usual ballyhoo and... Read more

5 Oct 2019

1hr

Ranked #2

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Ep221: Bono In The Cold Room | Featuring Patrick Powell of Allegra

Ep221: Bono In The Cold Room | Featuring Patrick Powell of Allegra

Today on TickyOff, the TO2 begin with no energy, a frog orgy, a roti to the face of a small screaming child and some rea... Read more

8 Mar 2020

49mins

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Ranked #3

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Bonus Episode: Donut Maths | Featuring Chef Wylie Dufresne

Bonus Episode: Donut Maths | Featuring Chef Wylie Dufresne

Sam and James went to a donut* shop in Brooklyn. The donut shop is owned by Wylie Dufresne. Wylie Dufresne is a legend a... Read more

20 Jun 2019

27mins

Ranked #4

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Ep203: Herman The Merman | Featuring chef and fish butcher Josh Niland

Ep203: Herman The Merman | Featuring chef and fish butcher Josh Niland

This week’s episode is brought to you by the letter F. There’s fish, fascinating chat, and the vast majority is fool-fre... Read more

27 Oct 2019

52mins

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Ranked #5

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Ep228: Territorial Kitchens | Featuring chef Jess Shadbolt of King restaurant in NYC

Ep228: Territorial Kitchens | Featuring chef Jess Shadbolt of King restaurant in NYC

This Easter episode of Thee Most Holy TickyOff features a second appearance by chef and owner of King restaurant in NYC,... Read more

12 Apr 2020

45mins

Ranked #6

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Ep227: The Day Before Tomorrow | Featuring Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley

Ep227: The Day Before Tomorrow | Featuring Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley

This was the last episode of TickyOff recorded within the hallowed walls of the hallowed TickyOff Towers. Said episode w... Read more

9 Apr 2020

1hr 18mins

Ranked #7

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Ep202: Fairground By Simply Red | Featuring Oklava and Kyseri chef-owner Selin Kiazim

Ep202: Fairground By Simply Red | Featuring Oklava and Kyseri chef-owner Selin Kiazim

Guess what’s on fire? That’s right, the planet is. You can also add ‘The Kitchen’ to that flaming hot list. I feel like ... Read more

20 Oct 2019

1hr 2mins

Ranked #8

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Ep167: Batman On The Bounce | Featuring Radio 1 presenter Alice Levine

Ep167: Batman On The Bounce | Featuring Radio 1 presenter Alice Levine

Things that have been shot: Evel Knievel from a cannon across a canyon Digital ducks in the old Nintendo game ‘Duck Hunt... Read more

13 Jan 2019

1hr 33mins

Ranked #9

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Ep179: Military Terminology | Featuring chef and restaurateur Enrique Olvera

Ep179: Military Terminology | Featuring chef and restaurateur Enrique Olvera

Recently James and Sam were mildly honoured to be invited to give the commencement speech to the 2019 class at the hallo... Read more

7 Apr 2019

56mins

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Ep206: A Naughty Biscuit | Featuring restaurateur Will Lander

Ep206: A Naughty Biscuit | Featuring restaurateur Will Lander

Upon this week, upon this episode, James and Sam are drunk. James has drunk a stein of beer, Sam has been watching 'The ... Read more

17 Nov 2019

1hr 22mins

Ranked #11

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Ep212: New Year's Eve | Featuring chef and restaurateur Richard Corrigan

Ep212: New Year's Eve | Featuring chef and restaurateur Richard Corrigan

This is the New Year’s Eve special 2019. This is an episode with no intro. This is an episode in which Sam and James spr... Read more

31 Dec 2019

1hr 10mins

Ranked #12

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Ep210: Funky Wine At The Funeral | Featuring Passione Vino's Luca Dusi

Ep210: Funky Wine At The Funeral | Featuring Passione Vino's Luca Dusi

This week James has been mean to Sam. It’s unclear why but could have something to do with a chat about oysters and lemo... Read more

15 Dec 2019

52mins

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Ep175: The Restaurant Exorcist | Featuring Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich from Honey and Co.

Ep175: The Restaurant Exorcist | Featuring Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich from Honey and Co.

This week Sam and James are both incredibly depressed. It’s amazing how despite this, they still open with this much wor... Read more

10 Mar 2019

1hr 17mins

Ranked #14

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Ep231: Zoom On Fire | Featuring writer Joe Warwick

Ep231: Zoom On Fire | Featuring writer Joe Warwick

This episode of Thine TickyOff (we do it all for you because we are kind and generous) features Joe Warwick creating mou... Read more

23 Apr 2020

48mins

Ranked #15

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Ep184: Edible Fingers | Featuring food writer and cookbook author Rosie Birkett

Ep184: Edible Fingers | Featuring food writer and cookbook author Rosie Birkett

Serious stuff before the nonsense begins…. This Sunday James is running the Hackney Half Marathon along with his brother... Read more

10 May 2019

1hr 33mins

Ranked #16

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Ep180: Full Body Gout | Featuring restaurant critic and food writer Tom Parker Bowles

Ep180: Full Body Gout | Featuring restaurant critic and food writer Tom Parker Bowles

This week restaurant critic and food writer Tom Parker Bowles is sat in the hottest of seats upon the mighty TickyOff. I... Read more

14 Apr 2019

1hr 19mins

Ranked #17

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Ep173: Highway To Hull | Featuring 26 Grains owner and cookbook author Alex Hely-Hutchinson

Ep173: Highway To Hull | Featuring 26 Grains owner and cookbook author Alex Hely-Hutchinson

This week on English Country Garden Naturist Patrol, James and Sam discuss inner-thigh chafing, brunching in the buff an... Read more

24 Feb 2019

1hr 23mins

Ranked #18

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Ep193: Chronology Of Outrage | Featuring Eater London editor Adam Coghlan

Ep193: Chronology Of Outrage | Featuring Eater London editor Adam Coghlan

Last week the TickyOff Boyz visited the ancient pyramids. As they approached these magnificent desert triangles, Sam jum... Read more

14 Jul 2019

1hr 28mins

Ranked #19

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Ep186: TickyOff In Thailand | Featuring author Kay Plunkett-Hogge and Pok Pok chef-restaurateur Andy Ricker

Ep186: TickyOff In Thailand | Featuring author Kay Plunkett-Hogge and Pok Pok chef-restaurateur Andy Ricker

Horses are beautiful creatures. Powerful animal shaped beings with long faces, wavy manes and metal feet. Sometimes you ... Read more

26 May 2019

1hr 23mins

Ranked #20

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Special Episode: The Coronavirus One

Special Episode: The Coronavirus One

This special episode of TickyOff features Will Beckett of the Hawksmoor restaurant group discussing the impact of the Co... Read more

12 Mar 2020

43mins

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