Ep 8: Tom Kerridge
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It's the magical restaurant's first chef guest! The Michelin-starred Tom Kerridge orders his dream meal. Will he stick to his healthy regime, or will it be an 'off day'? We also learn more about the genie waiter's backstory and James tries to embarrass Ed in some *bonus content* – so keep listening until the end.
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)
Tom Kerridge's book, 'Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start', is out now, published by Bloomsbury. See here for more details. His TV series of the same name is on Wednesdays, 8pm, BBC Two, and also on iPlayer.
Ed Gamble is on tour in 2019. See his website for full details.
James Acaster is on tour in 2019. See his website for full details.
Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
And a big thanks to Sarah from Raaka Chocolate for sending us some samples!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners of the off menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the off menu podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely |
| 0:12.1 | over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could |
| 0:16.7 | I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy |
| 0:22.2 | I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multicore's life of a very greedy boy. |
| 0:32.4 | And it's coming out this October, but it is available to pre-order now, wherever you |
| 0:38.0 | pre-order books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies, which are exclusively |
| 0:44.8 | available from Waterstones. But go and pre-order your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life |
| 0:49.9 | of the very greedy boy. Now, please. |
| 0:51.9 | Oh no. It's the off menu podcast. With James A. Castor. That's you saying that. And |
| 1:13.4 | Ed Gamble, that's me saying that. Hello James. Hello Ed, how are you? I'm good, mate. |
| 1:18.8 | Good to see you. You can find Fettel. Thank you. What does that mean? Nice cap. |
| 1:23.3 | Thanks very much. Hey, great episode today. Ah, such a great episode. |
| 1:29.3 | We're very excited. Very excited, because it's our first ever chef, Tom Kerage. |
| 1:34.1 | And if you're here because you're a fan of Tom and you've never listened to the podcast |
| 1:37.8 | before, what is it James? We are going to ask Tom Kerage, what the best ever. All this |
| 1:42.3 | is favourite starter, main, side, drink and dessert. He can order whatever he likes in our |
| 1:49.2 | magical restaurant and I'm a genie. And James is a genie, but we'll come to that. |
| 1:53.4 | Actually, there's more depths of the genie reveals today that even I didn't know about |
| 1:56.9 | James. Or me. Oh, you're very excited. Are you telling me you were riffing that off the |
| 2:02.1 | top of your... No, no, no, no. I just noticed them for the first time. I noticed those |
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