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I am absolutely delighted this week to have I am absolutely delighted this week to have here in the studio the wonderful Gizzy Erskine

chef and food writer extraordinaire hello gizzy hello gizzy hello how are you I'm really

good I'm really excited to be here. Each week we start by asking our guest, how are you? Like how are you really? Because we ask that question like a million times a day

Yeah, fine whatever because if we actually stopped and gave each other the real answer we'd be there all day

Yeah, but I want you to give me a real answer how are you? I'm actually really good, which is great, because a year ago I was really not good.

So, I don't actually, probably a bit less than a year ago. I don't know. Like, I had a bit of a funny year for various reasons. I started to feel a little bit manic in myself.

So I don't know. I had then the year sort of imploded after that. So kind of today I'm very much feeling really good. I'm

definitely getting myself back. I really measure things from like I'll say oh today

is April the whatever this is how I was feeling last April the whatever and oh my God, I was feeling last April, the whatever, oh my God I was feeling absolutely

effing awful.

Yeah, I don't know.

Like I think it's kind of good, like there's very much a thing what difference,

at day makes, isn't it?

But like what different this a year has made,

I think it's becoming quite a poignant time

for me right this very second.

We had a lot of self-doubt, I think,

at the beginning of the year,

and I started questioning my own sanity and I think throughout

that so up until the end of the year actually and then this year for some reason I sort of had

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