#35 A Festive Foodie Chat With Rosie Birkett
The Fringe of It
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4.8 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
As the big day creeps up (THREE DAYS PEOPLE) we sit down to talk all things Christmas, with Charlotte catching up with the exceptionally talented food writer Rosie Birkett to talk about everything from perfecting potatoes, the science behind the perfect dinner and tackling gravy. We also talk about the pressures around this time of year as well as some deep sequin reflection and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel...
Rosie's website: http://www.rosiebirkett.com/
Rosie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosiefoodie/
THAT popcorn cheesecake recipe: https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/baking-and-desserts/salted-butterscotch-popcorn-cheesecake/
Rosie's Christmas posts: http://www.rosiebirkett.com/category/christmas/
TV:
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3WEKki6znk
Bohemian Rhapsody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP0VHJYFOAU
Baby Shark (sorry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
Shopping:
Woodbury Common: https://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlet/woodbury-common
Catbird: https://www.catbirdnyc.com/
Lizzy from Shot From The Street's Post: https://www.shotfromthestreet.com/thoughts-on-christmas/
ASOS Dress: https://www.asos.com/asos-tall/asos-design-tall-ditsy-print-midi-dress-with-long-sleeves-with-sequin-hem-and-cuff-detail/prd/10030505?affid=14173&channelref=product+search&mk=abc¤cyid=1&ppcadref=761030383%7C39786858683%7Cpla-594220896200&browsecountry=GB&_cclid=v3_021eced6-5052-50ec-8742-1a66a19436c0&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxcH0j96z3wIV4p3tCh2GcwDbEAQYAiABEgJSm_D_BwE
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the fringe of it. |
| 0:10.5 | Episode number 35. |
| 0:16.6 | How are you? Welcome back to cold freezing blighting. |
| 0:20.8 | I know. But you know, it was quite cold and freezing in the Big Apple. |
| 0:25.6 | So I'm literally sitting by my window and I feel like a Christmas car, but I accept a miserable one because it's just absolutely hammering it down. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, have you got rain? |
| 0:36.4 | On the weather, they were like, there's going to be freezing |
| 0:39.0 | rain. I was like, is that not snow? But I'm probably a bit stupid. What is freezing rain? That is snow. |
| 0:47.0 | If I was play, what's that game where you have to describe something, but you can't mention what |
| 0:51.1 | the actual thing is. I mean, that's how I would describe. Articulate. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, that's how I would describe freezing rain, aka snow. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah, how peculiar. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, we're apparently getting snow in Lincoln. |
| 1:05.9 | I'm not sure. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm in my pajamas. |
| 1:07.8 | I haven't got dressed all day. |
| 1:08.9 | You know how I like to tell you what I'm wearing. |
| 1:16.2 | Paint a picture. I've got fluffy slippers on, polka dot bottoms and a cable knit cream jumper and I've not brushed my hair. Oh, that is heaven. And it's five o'clock in the |
| 1:21.6 | afternoon and I'm not going to get dressed. I don't blame you for one second. Well, I saw, I can't remember where I saw this, but somebody, somebody on the internet just |
| 1:32.2 | said basically, schedule in downtime for Christmas. |
| 1:35.5 | And I've got quite a busy schedule coming up, you know, I've got spas to go to, dinners |
| 1:40.8 | to go to. |
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