Lesley Nicol on Veganism & Being Mrs. Patmore
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.8 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mark talks to the accomplished actress, Lesley Nicol, about the food on Downton Abbey, how the show inspired her to go vegan, and what it was actually like to wear the infamous Mrs. Beaver costume.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Food with Mark Bittman. I am Mark Bittman. I'm happy to tell you that I have the lovely Leslie nickel with me today. |
| 0:11.5 | Who, you know as Mrs. Patmore yes we have Mrs. Patmore we'll get to that in a second |
| 0:20.0 | Meanwhile I want to remind you that you can always reach out to us at food at markbitman.com and please do we will answer your questions when we can |
| 0:29.6 | Please subscribe to our near daily newsletter also the bitman project at bitman project |
| 0:35.3 | dot com and subscribe to this podcast as well of course. We'll get back to that conversation in a minute, but first I want to talk about something that lots of people ask me |
| 0:53.6 | about when it comes to global cuisines. There is something magical about |
| 0:57.8 | eating a cuisine in the place where it originated. One of the reasons for that is that |
| 1:02.0 | the dishes that define a cuisine are built around the produce that's native to a place. |
| 1:07.0 | It's why the feta and tomato and a Greek salad tastes so perfect in Athens, or the artichokes in |
| 1:12.5 | olive oil in Rome are to die for. |
| 1:14.7 | They have a certain sweetness and tang that you can get close to |
| 1:18.3 | but not easily replicate. |
| 1:20.2 | And not surprisingly, one of the best ways to get a sense for how something |
| 1:25.0 | should taste is to visit a region of the world and sample a dish in several forms |
| 1:30.4 | from lots of different neighboring areas. |
| 1:33.0 | Then you can appreciate the local variations as well. |
| 1:36.0 | And the most efficient way to do that, for me at least, |
| 1:39.0 | is the first class experience of a Regent Cruz. |
| 1:42.0 | I was able to do that on our recent all-inclusive |
| 1:44.8 | Tor evasion. I had a hankering for seafood, well I always do, seafood that you don't |
| 1:50.0 | get easily in the US and I had just an incredible experience in the fish markets of |
| 1:55.1 | Busan just overwhelming varieties of fresh seafood. With more than 500 |
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