Hello listeners of the off menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the off menu podcast.

I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely

over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could

I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy

I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny.

I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multicore's life of a very greedy boy.

And it's coming out this October, but it is available to preorder now wherever you

preorder books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies which are exclusively

available from Waterstones. But go and preorder your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life

of a very greedy boy. Now please.

Westminster. Where the business of governing is the last thing on the agenda. I'm Cleo

Watson and in my novel Whips, politics moves fast, schemes are hatched and foiled in hours

and sex and power preside. We follow three young women who quickly become wrapped up in

the circus of glamorous parties in sufferable bosses, scheming colleagues and a desire to

win. Powerful, political, riotous, scandalous, whips will deliver on every promise. Read Whips

now in Hardback, eBook and AudioBook.

Today's episode of the Off-Menu podcast is brought to you by Beere Mareti.

Oh, I know fancically Italian quality longer, Ed, don't you know? I should know. I live

in Italy. Yes, you didn't know, listen, and James has moved to Italy specifically because

of his favourite beer, Beere Mareti. James, tell me about what life is like in Italy.

Oh, so much has happened in Italy, Ed. People think that Italy is all about the ancient times,

the coder's theorem, the... the... World Cup 1990. But it's not about that anymore. It's

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