It's the end of 2022, James, and it's been our biggest and best year of off menu yet.

Maximum national treasures, minimal cheeseboards, and we showed the touch a picture of a cat.

This is part one of our favourite clips from the 44 episodes that we've put out this year.

44, as we often say here at off menu, Benito is an excellent, I was going to say it with you.

Because we often say it.

Oh, okay.

This is the first time we're reading this, obviously, James, because Benito has written this,

so let's see what he said.

As we often say here at off menu, Benito is an excellent producer and close personal friend.

But also, we often say, James, that food is about comfort.

Benito, neither of us have ever said that.

Neither of us have ever said that shit.

We don't say that about you.

So we start this year's compilation with some comforting, heartwarming descriptions of

homemade food from James.

Charlotte Church, Taman Edgerton, Matt Lucas, Sikisa and Lenny Henry.

What a crazy group of guests without a margin.

The way in which I was brought up, right, was in a very nutritionally deficient way.

We were like, I was raised on like turkey dinosaurs and microchips and spam.

And my family are obsessed with cheese on a plate.

Love it.

So there's nothing else happened, apart from it being melted cheese on a plate.

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