Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and I'm about to have a literal excitement breakdown about how excited I am for this episode.

Every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

Our today's episode I'm joined by Prolethe of Great British Baking Challenge where I ask her, how do you get your bake off?

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vaness. I'm so excited to welcome her guest. I literally can't stand it.

She's someone who has been all up on my TV screen for a very, very, just, couldn't feel yours.

But I know you've been doing these before that without any further ado. Welcome to the show.

Prolethe of British Baking Challenge which has like two different titles. I know like America, UK, but it's not anything for chose.

I love you so much. Your hair looks amazing. Your house is amazing. I'm obsessed with your color choice and welcome to the podcast. How are you?

Oh, well, I love that. That's a great interaction. I'm clear to be here. I mean, you were as apparently and of course I didn't know all this because you know, I'm so ignorant and so old and so out of touch.

But I didn't know all about you, but I didn't know about where I and so anyway, I didn't know you did this podcast, which you've been doing for ages.

I have. It's just had it six year old birthday and now we just launched our TV show, getting curious on Netflix and we're so excited. But I have been knowing about you for a minute. I am obsessed with you.

And I think that your introductory sentence was perfect that you didn't know about me because that's kind of the theme of this episode is I want to know the woman behind the host who is prolethe beyond the Great British Baking Challenge, which what do you guys call the United Kingdom because my husband who's British tells me 18 times a week.

But I have I think I've done a conglomeration of both titles in my head and now it's never in England is the great British Bake Off and we couldn't use that word Bake Off in America because apparently it belongs to someone else, some company.

So here's the thing. I don't think people have realized at least over here or at least in my house eight novels, a memoir, 14 cookbooks, your latest cookbook, the vegetarian kitchen that you call

right with your niece so cute was published in 2020. You have been busy. You are a very storied person and I obviously have learned from Bake Off that you have a very discerning palette. Your palette is extra or near your very

keen with the tastes and also sidebar and you guys can't see this on the podcast. But this room that you're in what is this your office at home.

And then it's my office. It is so chic. The colors are gorgeous. It's nice. Isn't it? Can you see the chandelier? Can you see the chandelier? Yes, yes, it's gorgeous. It was rather pompous big chandelier. But I thought it looked too pompous. So I hung lots of extra necklaces because I collect necklaces. So it's it's the hunt.

And festooned with necklaces and tea cups because I collect tea cups and tea cup so it's full of tea cups. You've always been obsessed with tea cups.

Now I've always I've always loved tea cups little old fashioned fashion ones. And we use them for coffee after dinner if we use them at all. But mostly they end up like that up in a chandelier.

Do you know like the oldest or like most storied tea cup in your collection? Do you have like some tea cup that's like, oh, this one's from the 15th century and was actually used in Queen and something.

No, I'm not that kind of collector. I just like junk junk shops and when I see them I buy them. And I have a sort of mental thing that I won't spend more than about 10 pounds on it.

You usually get what's called a trio, a cup of sauce and and a plate. And and I don't want to have. I don't care about the sauce and the plates so much.

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