Skye McAlpine: Cook, Photographer and Author

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Skye McAlpine

Skye is a Venice based food writer, blogger and photographer. She is the author of the successful blog “From my Dining table” and has written for many of the big named publications like The Sunday Times, vanity fair and The Guardian. She spends most of her time in Venice, where she writes, teaches cookery workshops and practices her photography.

She has called Venice home since early childhood and with her debut book, “A table in Venice”, she provides over 100 recipes and brings to life the food of Venice in the most romantic, intriguing and just plain wonderful way.

Skye has said:

As is the way for those who love to eat, my happiest childhood memories are centred on food. Little has changed for me on that front as I;ve grown older. I remain the kind of person who rememebers life through what they ate and how it was cooked.

Come and find me on Instagram @madebymargie and head to www.desertislandishes.co for lots of recipes and more details on the full list of episodes.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven desert island dishes. These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten. And of course,
0:23.1	we find out the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast off the Desert Island.
0:28.7	If you haven't already, do you take a moment to rate and review the podcast, as it really does
0:34.0	help to spread the word about Desert Island dishes and that way I can keep bringing it
0:38.5	to you every week. I have followed this week's guest forever so I was very excited to get her on the
0:45.0	show. Her food is beautiful. Her photography is amazing and literally everything she posts online,
0:52.5	I just want to put on my Pinterest board.
1:03.5	She's brilliant, and as you'll hear, she's very modest, and my gushing compliments made her a bit uncomfortable, but I continue to gush away.
1:07.8	Sit back and relax as you listen to Sky's Desert Island Dishes.
1:13.0	So my guest today is Sky McAlpine.
1:16.9	Sky is a Venice-based food writer, blogger and photographer.
1:20.8	She is the author of the successful blog from my dining table and has written for many of the big-named publications
1:23.8	like the Sunday Times, Vanity Fair and The Guardian.
1:29.4	She spends most of her time in Venice where she writes, teaches cookery workshops and practices her photography. She is called Venice
1:35.1	home since early childhood, and with her debut book, A Table in Venice, she provides over a hundred
1:40.7	recipes and brings to life the food of Venice in the most romantic, intriguing
1:45.7	and just plain wonderful way. Sky has said, as is the way for those who love to eat, my happiest
1:52.8	childhood memories are centred on food. Little has changed for me on that front as I've grown older.
1:58.5	I remain the kind of person who remembers life through what they
2:01.5	ate and how it was cooked. Welcome, Sky. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much for having me
2:07.8	in what is quite literally the most beautiful flat I've ever been in. Like I asked you off
2:14.7	microphone, but I'm going to ask you again, is there anything you can't do?
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