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Welcome to hoovering, the podcast about eating.

I'm Jessica Bostigue.

I love eating as much as anything else in the world.

But also, it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish.

It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an

interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering.

Welcome. This is a lovely episode you're joining us for. I'm talking to a real-life professional food writer for the first time, a professional eater, no less.

Who you've no doubt read in various broadsheets and stuff over the years, she's called Emma Sturgis.

And she doesn't just write about food.

She's an extremely talented maker of it, too.

But first things first, I've got a tiny bit of business to address. Business. First up, there's a few tickets left for my hoovering live

shows coming up in London, and I've announced my amazing guests. On the 27th of January,

I'll be joined by Anthony Amordue off this last series of Bake Off, and he'll be baking.

Also a comedian who's so funny I am regularly brought into real, genuine gut-twisting physical pain

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