Gennaro Contaldo: Everyone's favourite nonno!

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Surprise! I'm back with a special bonus episode with the one and only Gennaro Contaldo.

The legendary Gennaro almost doesn’t need an introduction. He’s one of the UK’s most loved chefs, he’s widely known as the man who taught Jamie Oliver all he knows about Italian cooking. He spent time entertaining us with the late, great Antonio Carluccio on ‘Two Greedy Italians’, and Channel 4’s Jamie’s Italy with Jamie Oliver.

Referred to as "everyone’s favourite nonno" - he’s written more than a dozen best-selling Italian cookbooks.He has worked across and owned some of londons top Italian restaurants and he regularly appears on tv screens with “infectious enthusiasm and energy and a greedy need for good food”.

In his spare time he has a passion for whittling walking sticks – which is quite the tongue twister!

When asked to describe himself in 5 words he has said:“Italian, passionate, extroverted, loud and temperamental

When Jamie Oliver was asked what he learnt from Gennaro he said simply - “everything…heart, soul, romance, fantasy - every nice word you can say.”

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0:00.0	This episode of Desert Island Dishes is sponsored by Nonatonda.
0:04.3	Nonotonda was set up by husband and wife team James and Rebecca.
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0:24.1	fresh each morning using traditional Italian recipes and all the produce is both locally and
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0:53.9	just that little bit easier and more
0:56.5	delicious. Head to the website www. www. nontonda.com.uk to find out more. That's Nonna tonda,
1:05.0	spelled N-O-N-N-N-A-T-O-N-D-A. And very excitingly, I've got a discount code to share with you.
1:13.6	Use the code Desert Dishes 1.
1:16.4	That's all capital letters and then the number 1 for 60% off the first two dishes.
1:22.3	So I hope you enjoy and thank you very much to Nonotonda.
1:27.1	Hi, I'm Marji Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:32.0	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
1:38.2	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
1:42.3	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course,
1:45.9	the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the desert island.
1:51.3	Surprise! I'm back this week with a lovely little bonus episode for you. The season has come to an
1:59.4	end, but I couldn't leave you quite that abruptly. And I thought
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