Confessions Of The Chequers Chef
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What is it like to cook for world leaders, celebrities, and even the Queen? Graham Howarth is the Head Chef at Chequers - the PM's country retreat. He tells Matt Chorley about being left speechless when the Queen came for dinner, and the prime minister who fancied themselves as a cook.
Plus: Columnists Giles Coren and Abbie Moulton discuss going vegan, new food trends, and why burrata is overrated.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Chodley bringing the best of my Times Radio |
| 0:07.5 | show. |
| 0:08.5 | You can listen live Monday, Friday, 10 till 1 on your DAV radio, on your smart speaker, |
| 0:12.7 | on the Times Radio app and food week continues all this week, not politics. |
| 0:17.6 | And coming up on today's episode, we are going to hear from the head chef at Checkers, |
| 0:22.2 | the Prime Minister's Grayson Faith at Home, Graham Howarth tells me about Boris Johnson's |
| 0:27.2 | barbecues, Perracca Barmer's barbecues, and the Prime Minister, who fancied himself |
| 0:32.2 | as a bit of a chef. |
| 0:33.2 | All that coming up in just a moment, but first, as ever, let's take a look at the news |
| 0:37.2 | with today's Colourless Panel. |
| 0:43.0 | The Colour Misses on Times Radio. |
| 0:47.0 | And what with it being food week, a very special foodie duo. |
| 0:51.2 | Joining me in the studio is right on broadcast, a specialising in Wine and Whiskey, Abbey |
| 0:55.6 | Moulton. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm very well. |
| 0:57.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.6 | And beaming in from outer space. |
| 0:59.6 | The Times is very own restaurant critic, Charles Cohen. |
| 1:01.8 | Hello, Charles. |
| 1:02.8 | Hello, Matt. |
| 1:03.8 | When you said a very special foodie duo like that, I only heard up to a very special |
| 1:07.8 | foodie duo, and I thought you were announcing me in a very unusual way. |
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