S9 Ep 6: Zawe Ashton
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Alice Williams
4.8 • 12.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
We welcomed the beautiful and brilliant Zawe Ashton to ours last Friday with an unexpected guest, Fresh Meat co-star Charlotte Richie (who Jessie used to babysit back in the day!).
The author and actress devoured mums sticky short ribs (even kindly put them on her last supper meal!), spoke all about being a child actor, being bullied, The Handmaids Tale and her new book Character Breakdown. We chatted about the go to places to eat after you've stepped off stage on Broadway, how savoury porridge saved her life, the thrills of cheap red wine and being a devotee of Terry's Chocolate Orange. She shares with us her mum's Ugandan cooking, what was in her lunchbox and Lennie’s love of Margaret Atwood. This has SO MUCH GOOD STUFF IN IT! Enjoy and thank you Zawe for being so wonderful x
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by the new film, Are You There God? It's me Margaret, based on the |
| 0:07.2 | best-selling novel by Judy Bloom in cinemas from May 19th. I must, I must, I must increase my bust. |
| 0:15.0 | That is what I sung to myself throughout my adolescence. And it never worked. |
| 0:21.8 | This is one of my favourite Judy Bloom novels. I loved it when I was younger. I love that they've |
| 0:28.1 | made it into a film with the most stellar cast. Rachel Adams is playing the mum Barbara. |
| 0:33.6 | Kathy Bates is playing the grandma Sylvia. Your favourite darling? I know. 11-year-old Margaret is |
| 0:40.4 | played by Abbey Rider Fortson, who I can't wait to see play Margaret. I'm so so excited to watch |
| 0:46.5 | this. Judy Bloom is one of the greats. It's an a powerful depiction of friendships and mother |
| 0:52.0 | daughter relationships, much like this podcast mother. It's just perfect. Coming of age, it's |
| 0:57.7 | going to be so much of a world. We're definitely going. Are you there God? It's me Margaret is in |
| 1:03.2 | cinemas on 19th May, but your ticket's now. This episode is brought to you by Dish Patch. |
| 1:10.5 | Tastes the UK's most exciting restaurant food from any home in Britain. Fully prepared and |
| 1:15.7 | shipnation-wide so you can finish and serve within minutes. For people that don't know what |
| 1:20.1 | Dish Patch is, it is collaborations with the UK's best chefs and restaurants. There's Yota |
| 1:25.3 | Motelengi on there, Angela Hartner, Michelle Rue Jr, and the food comes fully prepared so all you |
| 1:30.6 | have to do is heat and plate. They've done all the labour and you get to do the fun part. I had a |
| 1:35.9 | delicious otelengi with it. It was a mezzay but also with lamb and pistachio patties. It was so good. |
| 1:44.4 | How easy was it to make mum? Well Sam did it because I was well then it must have been easy. I was |
| 1:48.7 | helping the children. He followed all the instructions and it was done. It was delicious. |
| 1:52.5 | And usually he takes about 10 hours in the kitchen. So this is perfect for people that |
| 1:57.1 | are the slowest cooks in the world. It's just perfect for a date night. It's a great way to treat |
| 2:01.8 | yourself. Special occasions and you've run out of ideas of which restaurant to go to. Have you |
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