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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.

Hello, please, welcome to March. It's March. I like March. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the lovely Hen and Chickens Theatre in Islington, London, at the end of January this year, 2019, in case you're listening in the future. And it's a bit of a bitter, sweet one, actually. We had an incredible evening as you'll hear and we ate some magical

vegan food from the wonderful fudge patch in Greenwich and also we one of the guests,

Anthony Amadu was on the last series of Bake Off and he made some incredible cakes that we tried as well.

But the majority of the stuff that we ate was the most heavenly vegan feast.

Masses of brilliant, bold, beautiful vegan Italian food, which as you'll hear, we all loved. And it came from a place in East

London called Antonios, which isn't there anymore, because in a thunderbolt of fucking tragedy,

basically, soon after we recorded this episode, I learned that, this is so bleak um but antonio has passed away

he's died uh everyone i know even vaguely interested in planty eating out in london uh was aware of

and impressed by him and his food um and it's just sort of too massive and horrible to compute, really.

So listen, you will hear how much we love the food from Antonio and his team.

And rather than my usual banging on at this point, sort of promoting and plugging the podcast,

I'll just say that this episode is dedicated to Antonio,

to his memory and to all of his hard work.

And there's something, hopefully, to go down in history as a mark of how brilliant he was at cooking,

how exceptionally brilliant he was at cooking plant-y versions of Italian food which made vegans and as you'll hear

even staunch carnivores say wow that is delicious there wasn't a scrap left on the table by

the end of the night the sadness of this considered I should now also say before we get into

this episode that it is a funny,

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