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Today we're chatting with John Waite. He's the winner of the third series of the Great British Bakeoff.

While the world of reality television is often cruel and scandalous,

Waite says the spirit of competition on the Great British Bakeoff was nothing short of friendly.

We got on so well that the production company had to ask us to stop helping each other during the technical challenge.

I think that's the kind of, you know, British friendliness that we tried to help each other. We weren't very competitive,

not until the end anyway. Also coming up, Alex Eye News attempts to make Joel Robichon's

mashed potatoes, and we cook an Indian staple of simmered lentils with spice-infused hot butter.

But first we're chatting with Max Falcowitz.

He's a food and travel writer as well as being obsessed with Facebook culinary groups.

Max, welcome to Milk Street. Thank you. It's great to be here.

So we're talking about strange culinary Facebook groups. There's a bunch of Facebook groups in niche culinary areas.

How did you find out about this? Why did you join some of these groups? And what are they

talking about? So it's, I think that the important thing to think about the internet and

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