TALK:
Lecker Podcast Live with Joké Bakare
In a special live recording of the award-winning food podcast Lecker, host Lucy Dearlove meets Joké Bakare, the UK’s first Black female Michelin-starred chef, as part of the Festival of Encounters. Joké’s restaurant, Chishuru, is now located in Fitzrovia but its first site was in Brixton Market: the prize for self-taught Joké winning the Brixton Kitchen competition in 2020. In Brixton, the community and produce available in the market helped inform Chishuru’s singular approach to West African food; in this conversation, she shares more about the people, places and ingredients that have informed her cooking, from Kaduna, Nigeria to South London, including the church outside which her journey in food began.
Sunday 5 October 2.30–4pm
San Mei Gallery, 39a Loughborough Rd, London SW9 7TB
Joké Bakare [she/her] is a Nigerian chef and founder of Chishuru restaurant in Fitzrovia. She started her business with a van outside her church in southeast London, then won a competition to win a three-month restaurant popup in Brixton Village. Joké is the first black female Michelin-starred chef in the UK. Joké was named Chef of the Year at the National Restaurant Awards 2024 and Code Hospitality named her Woman of the Year in their list of Women of the Year 2024. In December 2024, the Financial Times listed Joké as one of the 25 most influential women of 2024.
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Lucy Dearlove [she/her] is a writer and audio producer. She’s produced audio and written work across the fields of food, music, history and culture for BBC Radio 4, the Guardian, Historic England, and Vittles. She hosts and produces Lecker, one of the UK’s most critically acclaimed food podcasts and twice winner of the Fortnum & Mason Podcast of the Year Award. In a 2024 review, the New York Times wrote that: "this convivial podcast has an intimate feel that sets it apart from most interview shows.
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