This week is all about Palestinian food, culture and wine, yes there is such a thing!

Hugo and Ben welcome Fadi Kattan, Founder of Akub restaurant, onto the podcast. Akub is a Palestinian restaurant celebrating the rich diversity of ingredients and culinary traditions from the region, while working with locally sourced British ingredients.

Fadi Kattan is a Franco-Palestinian chef living in Bethlehem and London. He has two restaurants: Fawda (in Bethlehem) and Akub (in London). He also has a boutique hotel in Bethlehem, as well as a Youtube series profiling Palestinian grandmothers and their food knowledge and traditions.

He has become an authority and an ambassador for contemporary Palestinian cuisine and recently released a cook book titled Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food

In the episode we discuss:

• Akub as a restaurant and how it was started
• The intrinsic link between Palestinian food, wine and culture
• Fadi's new book

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It's all about sake this week. Somewhere between a beer, a spirit and a wine, there is a mystique when it comes to sake as people rarely understand what it is, the range of styles and therefore the possibilities it offers. This week we change that!

Hugo and Ben welcome Tom Wilson, Co-Founder of Kanpai, onto the podcast. Kanpai is the UK's first sake brewery based in Bermondsey beer mile. They produce a range of styles and are open to the public via tours and their amazing taproom.

In the episode we discuss:

• How Kanpai was founded
• What sake is made of
• How sake is made

We also taste 3 sakes from Kanpai that you can purchase online:

• Sora Honjozo
• Kaze Junmai Ginjo
• Hana Yuzu Fruit Sake

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Hugo and Ben welcome Karl Sjöström onto the podcast, our final instalment from filming at Karakterre wine festival in Vienna, Austria.

In the episode we discuss:

• Fruit wine as a category and what it actually is
• Fruktstereo, who they are and what they're getting up to in Sweden

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