Monica Galetti

The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan

The Midpoint

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Full disclosure: this episode is highly likely to make you hungry! Gabby is joined by one of the most revered chefs in the country, MasterChef: The Professionals judge and Mere Restaurant chef owner, Monica Galetti. Monica grew up in Samoa imbibing the food centric culture there, before travelling to New Zealand to train as a chef and landing in the UK in Chef Michel Roux Jr’s Michelin kitchen! After juggling competing priorities for many years, pressures on her business and her family meant Monica had to step back from MasterChef last year. Monica explains what she learned in that time, and how she’s now finding the joy in what she does again. Monica also talks about finding her "fit crew" and feeling more confident than ever in the gym, the importance of a happy kitchen, as well as her beloved “boys” – her three dogs! Sporting Director, Calvin Mudd, also joins to explain what Canicross is and why it might be you and your canine companion’s new favourite form of exercise.

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0:52.7	Hi Gabby here, and welcome to the midpoint. This week I'm joined by Chef and
1:01.9	Restaurant-Tur, Monica Galetti. Now, if you're a fan of Master Chef
1:05.4	the Professionals, then you'll know her as one of the esteemed judges on the show for over a decade.
1:10.8	But Monica also presents amazing hotels on the BBC, and when she's not filming,
1:15.2	she's putting all her shefing skills into practice at Mia Restaurant, which she owns in Fitzrobia.
1:20.4	Monica Likens being a chef to being a magician, and growing up in the food-centric culture of
1:25.5	Samoa, she was spellbound from the start. And after training in New Zealand, she came to the UK
1:30.6	and worked alongside world-renowned chef Michelle Rue Jr. at Lugavroche. And this is where she met
1:37.4	her husband, David. Together they have a 17-year-old daughter, and just like me, they also share their
1:42.8	home with three K9 members of the family. So later on, we're going to be hearing all about
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