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At the bottom of an anonymous looking staircase on a busy street and through a doorway, I think I've discovered the secret to a happy life. Well, okay, maybe it's just part of the secret to a happy life, but still, I'm convinced,

and I hope you will be too. Keep listening.

Through the door, this place looks like a restaurant, but it isn't.

Music by the way comes care of Miles Davis, his sketches of Spain.

Because that's where I am. Or at least, I think I am. I'm in the north and beneath the streets of Bilbao,

and I'm about to meet a group of friends, Ivan Pedro, John Ramon and Azier, and they're all Basks.

Hello.

How are you?

Just to mid-jan.

Hi.

Nice to meet you.

This restaurant-looking place that isn't a restaurant is the home of an association, one of the Bath Country's historic

gastronomic societies.

For now, think of it as a kind of cooking club.

In this program, I'll be explaining what they are, how they work, and why I, and Heston Blumenthal,

are convinced they could enrich all of our lives.

The blokes cook and they don't go down in a pub and play with ours.

They cook.

Before that, there's work to do.

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