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Hello, and welcome back to big mood, little mood. I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and with me

in the studio this week is Helen Rosner, a staff writer at the New Yorker who covers all things

culture, although most of it is about food. And behind me you will probably hear my dogs

squabbling, which they have just started to do. Helen, welcome to the show.

Thanks Danny. I also have a dog behind me, though she's not making any noise yet. I'm so happy to be here.

I am so happy that you're here too, not least because I have already been able to turn this into an

opportunity to force you to translate a book from French into English for me.

Using my extremely meager culinary French, but I will do what I can, anything for you.

I want you, you know, I just, I want you to use your influence, and I want you to specifically

use your influence to make sure that I don't have to learn French.

Yeah, I think that's a totally appropriate responsibility to put on to your guest podcast co-host.

Thank you. Well, I'm excited about the questions that we have before us today.

I don't know if you have any strong feelings about any one of them over the other,

but I feel like it's a, it's a, it's a thematically cohesive bunch like it.

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