147: Yotam Ottolenghi | Part 1
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hello listeners. Welcome to a brand new series of Homo Sapiens!
This season's theme is… YOU - our listeners! I’ll be having a gas with all the same LGBTQ+ icons that you have come to expect from Homo Sapiens, but we’ll also be chatting to you delightful lot, talking about the things that matter to you, asking you to choose the guests, and of course there will be a healthy splash of agony uncle-ing.
And who better to kick things off with than the w-onderful Yotam Ottolenghi who so many of you have asked us to chat to over the years. Most of us know Yotam as a world famous chef, restaurateur & writer, but it’s perhaps lesser known that he’s also a leading light in LGBTQ+ parenting. In an article he wrote for The Guardian he called the day he told the world that he’d had a son via surrogacy his 'second coming out’. So this week he swings by Homo Sapiens for a chat about cooking, parenting, bucking the trend of hyper-masculinity in kitchens, and how everything he does centres around one big queer family. It’s a delightful chat with a delightful man. Chris. x
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to Homo sapiens! |
| 0:06.9 | Price goes to the eagle-eared amongst us. Did you notice we have a new theme tune? |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to a new season of Homo sapiens, where we've had a judge, we've had a tidy up top, |
| 0:17.3 | trim the garden, we've given the place a lick of paint, we've got a brand new theme tune, |
| 0:21.8 | we've got a whole new look, so you can probably see if you look on your little podcast app. |
| 0:26.0 | This week we are chatting to none other, the internationally renowned chef, |
| 0:31.7 | restauranteur, writer, yotter, otterlingi, can't wait for you to hear this chat, |
| 0:37.6 | the man is a delight, that's what's coming up. And I come to you actually, from my new house, |
| 0:44.2 | I've moved house since we spoke last, sitting here in my little study that I've got, |
| 0:50.5 | an outside is my husband, he's unpacking boxes, and may have been a little loose with the truth |
| 0:58.3 | as to what I'm actually doing, because I said that I was unpacking in here, but actually I'm talking |
| 1:03.5 | to you, but so far he hasn't noticed anything, he's in the shed. Now the shed can be a bone of |
| 1:11.0 | contention because there was some form of agreement prior to moving that a lot of the crap in the shed |
| 1:18.2 | would go in my study, if I got the study, I'd agree to have some crap in the study from the shed. |
| 1:24.1 | Things like my pottery making crap as he called it. Now did I agree to this, yes, |
| 1:29.7 | but since I've got in here and made it look all lovely, I'm literally going to put my lamps out, |
| 1:34.1 | got my pictures on the wall, I don't want to shed crap in here, so I'm hiding out in the hope |
| 1:41.2 | that he's forgotten, and he will just load everything into the shed and it can stay in there. |
| 1:46.4 | I'm also looking at a log shed that needs to be built, which currently is about 43 pieces of wood |
| 1:52.6 | and 850 screws that somehow should be joined together to create a log shed, to keep logs, you see, |
| 2:02.2 | it doesn't appear to have any instructions, which not normally I'm afraid of. My family's an |
| 2:06.3 | engineering background, actually the Sweeney's, Sweeney and Bloxage was our earring, I'd love an |
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