John Gregory Smith

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Alice Williams

Music, Food, Arts, Kids & Family

4.8 • 12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We have chef & Instagram sensation John Gregory-Smith on the podcast this week! John brought round the most delicious monkfish curry and beef coconut rice from his brand new traybake cookbook, and mum made a gorgeous pear and chocolate tart for pud. We laughed non-stop with John - he told us about training to cook with Gordon Ramsey, his absolute love of Christmas, how to make the perfect festive gravy, eating his way round the Middle East, the ultimate kitchen gadgets, when Delia Smith introduced him to pesto, and why East 17 play a very important part in his family’s Christmas traditions! Thank you for the most delicious lunch John, that recipe is absolutely going straight on the regular meal list! John’s brand new cook book ‘The Greatest Traybake Cookbook ever’ is released on the 29th January, and available to pre-order now!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm sitting opposite Mum
0:07.4	who has managed to find something that's very kind of on the theme with Wicked being out.
0:12.8	You've got green and pink and then you've added the Lenny Flair with a little dash of leopard.
0:19.1	And your shoes. And your shoes.
0:41.3	I see. Oh my God, the leopard print shoes. Where did you get them from? Clarks. Oh, Fabi. Are they comfortable? So comfortable. Oh, I'm thrilled for you. Yeah. Also, should we talk about the fact that we were at Euston Station on Friday afternoon and our train to North Wales had been cancelled. Yeah.
0:41.3	And Lenny was in the most... Wasn't me, vintage leopard?
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:44.5	And so when you were complaining about the trains being cancelled,
0:47.5	we also had fans coming up to you.
0:49.6	Yeah, they were coming up to say.
0:50.5	And revealing their leopard print in honour of you.
0:54.2	Yeah. Yeah. Total leopard.
0:55.8	Total leopard.
0:58.7	How are you?
1:00.2	Well, I've got a sty.
1:01.8	Oh, working too hard.
1:03.3	Yeah. But besides that, I'm fine.
1:05.9	Why do you think you've got sty?
1:07.2	I think I'm run down, Jessie.
1:08.6	Oh, snap.
1:09.4	A lot of work going on.
1:10.8	So we have been a bit lucky today.
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