Maggie Aderin-Pocock, spiced lamb & plum tagine and prosecco

Dish

Cold Glass Productions

Comedy, Arts, Food, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Nick and Angela welcome a professional stargazer to Dish HQ. Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is a renowned space and science educator and a prominent figure in the field of astronomy. She began watching the skies from her council flat in North London as a child and went on to study physics and mechanical engineering at Imperial College London. It is Maggie’s ambition to go to space one day and last year she was named a ‘Barbie Role Model’ for her work promoting science careers to girls. She became the co-host of the BBC’s The Sky at Night in 2007 succeeding Sir Patrick Moore. Her new book The Art of Stargazing is out now. Maggie is a big fan of bubbles so Nick kicks off proceedings with a bottle of the award-winning Waitrose Blueprint Prosecco DOC while Angela prepares Martha Collison’s delicious spiced lamb & plum tagine with a side of couscous. This conversation will take you to the moon and back, literally! Maggie talks about life on other planets, growing food on Mars and how her allergies to brazil nuts and dairy affect her life. Just so you know, our podcast might contain the occasional mild swear word or adult theme. All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish We can’t all have a Michelin star chef in the kitchen, but you can ask Angela for help. Send your dilemmas to [email protected] and she’ll try to answer in a future episode. Dish is a S:E Creative Studio production for Waitrose & Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dish from Waitrose is an SE-Creative Studio production.
0:03.8	I love Christmas party food, and now, Waitrose is offering three packs of chilled
0:08.5	Christmas party food for the price of two. Pick up some of this gorgeous smoked salmon
0:12.1	eclairs or popcorn feta with hot honey or try it for near fries.
0:15.6	Even those sticky beef-to-reacky skewers there are lots to juice from. It's a hard choice.
0:20.9	That's why your third pack is on us. When the offer is this good, expect a little trouble
0:25.1	deciding what to get. Waitrose, food to feel good about.
0:28.5	Selected source, subject to availability. Prices may vary in channel
0:31.0	violence, little waitrose in concessions, cheapest out of free chilled out of zongli.
0:34.8	This podcast, to make contains some strong language and adult themes.
0:44.5	Oh hello and welcome to Dish from Waitrose. I am Nick Grimshaw.
0:49.1	And I am Angela Hartnett. And we are here together around the dish table
0:53.5	to have a bit of food, welcome a guest, bit of cooking. I saw that Florence Pugh
0:59.0	off of Hollywood movies, likes to post when she's cooking and says just having a chop,
1:05.0	chat and cook. Oh, that's brilliant. Today's guest, joining us for a chop and a chat,
1:12.0	mainly just chat, no chopping, is an astonishing woman. Someone I'm really excited about
1:16.9	meeting and we've not had anyone like this before on dish. No, tell you something different.
1:21.6	Her name is Maggie Adderine Polcock and she is a professional stargaze.
1:28.2	And you know, it was something that she just loved as a kid, like she just
1:32.0	fell in love with it from her bedroom window in London. And then I was like, wow,
1:35.9	I'm really interested in the stars, going to make that my career. Yeah, I got really into a book.
1:39.9	Yeah, it's fantastic. I read the book the other Sunday. I got back to London, I'd been away
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