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 in Christ Church on Brixton Road 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.