846. - Ben Lippett

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Ben Lippett, aka @dinnerbyben, is a cook from London. His new book, How I Cook, is out now. We chat about old pizza in Naples, the recession indicating Coachella lineup, season one of Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares, beef wellington theories, UK farmers’ markets, Kewpie mayonnaise, drizzling and sizzling olive oils, how to turn your Substack into a book deal, why he stopped working in restaurants, and the need to innovate vs. nailing the classics. instagram.com/dinnerbyben twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	how long gone bonjourno it's our last well at least. It's our last, well, at least Jason's last European podcast. Thank God. I don't know who's happier, you or me. I'm going to go with you. I'm not feeling happy.
0:32.3	What do you mean? I'm saying, I'm saying to return to Los Angeles. You must be feeling happy.
0:38.4	There are pros to that.
0:40.1	I'm looking forward to parts of that.
0:41.7	I mean, I have enjoyed life on the road.
0:44.3	You know, I was a lot more relaxed and chill in the island of Iskia than I'm in a different place in Naples right now, Napoli.
0:55.9	Oh, I didn't realize.
0:57.4	Jesus Christ, dude.
0:58.8	You're literally.
0:59.2	So, yeah, we did a podcast and I finished around 9, 9.30 p.m. last night.
1:06.5	And then went and had dinner at a remote tree house restaurant, got home at midnight, went to bed,
1:14.6	woke up.
1:14.9	Let me guess.
1:15.9	Hold on.
1:16.6	How far was the drive to the tree house restaurant?
1:19.6	It was only 30 minutes each way.
1:22.5	Okay.
1:22.9	An hour in the car total.
1:24.2	What would you give it on a scale of 1 to ten uh food rating wise six and a half okay
1:30.1	well it's not the numbers aren't working out great great for me but they're not terrible we uh we
1:34.7	went with the whole slow cooked rabbit which is the uh is skiing delicacy of the island you need a
1:43.3	fucking smoothie you need a fucking smoothie.
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