S13 Ep3: Ella Risbridger: Author
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Ella Risbridger
Author, writer and cook , in her own words: sometimes a journalist and other things too
Described by The Times as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation", Her debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), was published by Bloomsbury in January 2019 and won praise from Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater and Diana Henry.
A cookbook which starts with Ella trying to take her own life. A cookbook about mental health, cookbook about anxiety, a cookbook about life being difficult and complicated and lots of fun and full of brilliant people and brilliant things and terrible things and all of this happening at the same time
It’s about living in london, in your twenties, with an anxiety disorder and being in love and recipes
The one and only Nigella has said: "One of the things that makes Midnight Chicken such a very good book is how hard it is to say exactly what it is. Yes, to be sure, it's a cookbook, but it is also a manual for living and a declaration of hope."
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| 0:00.0 | This season of Desert Island Dishes is brought to you in partnership with Cooks Matches. |
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| 1:09.6 | Thank you very much to cook's matches. |
| 1:12.8 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 1:18.1 | This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island dishes. |
| 1:24.7 | These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their |
| 1:28.0 | childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose |
| 1:34.3 | to eat before being cast off to the Desert Island. Hi, thank you all so much for the |
| 1:40.4 | lovely feedback on the first two episodes of this season. I'm so glad they've been going |
| 1:46.0 | down so well with you. Today's episode is no exception and it is a very long one, but honestly, |
| 1:53.0 | going through it, I found it impossible to find bits which I wanted to cut out. So even if you |
| 1:59.0 | do have to listen to this in two parts, I really do think |
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