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My castaway this week is the cookery writer Anna Del Conte.

Her life, like her recipes, is a rich but healthy mix, rooted in the privileged pre-war traditions of a wealthy Milanese family.

Yet it's the unexpected ingredients that bring real flavour.

She's been machine-gunned and gone to prison twice.

She describes spaghetti bolognese as American food,

and despite being an inspirational figure to the likes of Nigella and Delia,

has never had her own TV cookery show.

She says, I eat absolutely everything from tripe to fish eyes and kids' head.

But I'm not a gourmand. I think I am a gourmet. Right, Anadale Conte, you have to define the difference then between gourmand and gourmet.

The gourmet for me is somebody just greedy,

and they would eat anything that is on its plate with a sort of abandon that I'm more choosy than that,

and that to me is a gourmet is.

It's more choosy, and he would eat with pleasure what is good.

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