147: Yotam Ottolenghi | Part 2
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 26 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 | Lessons in chemistry, streaming on Apple TV Plus. |
| 0:04.0 | You're on the verge of a major breakthrough. |
| 0:06.0 | I would like to offer you a job as the host of our cooking show. |
| 0:09.0 | Or you can cost. |
| 0:10.0 | No. |
| 0:11.0 | Do I need a catchphrase? |
| 0:12.0 | I don't know if I think I've never understood what that meant. |
| 0:15.0 | You've got something almost no one has. |
| 0:18.0 | A platform. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you for seeing something in me that I didn't see in myself. |
| 0:23.0 | Children set the table. |
| 0:24.0 | Your mother needs a moment to herself. |
| 0:26.0 | Lessons in chemistry, streaming on Apple TV Plus. |
| 0:29.0 | Subscription required. |
| 0:59.0 | Do you think there is queer food culture or LGBT food culture? |
| 1:05.0 | It's really difficult. |
| 1:06.0 | I think much more now with social media there is this ability to really express yourself through visually. |
| 1:17.0 | And that becomes a way so that you do have particularly queer representations of cooking on social media with... |
| 1:27.0 | ...there's a lot of cakes being made by queer people. |
| 1:32.0 | And that's always presented. |
| 1:34.0 | Always presented. |
| 1:35.0 | There's kind of the sidekick of the real world, which is savory cooking. |
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