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I have to tell you, my mother, my mother was a great cook and she used to go,

your elbow tastes good if you deep fried it.

She's right.

So now we go when we're like anywhere where it's shit food, but it's deep fried and we're all eating it we're like deep fried

elbow like that's true no when all fails you just drop it in a deep fryer and it's all going to be

fine hello i'm minnie driver i've always loved proust's questionette it was originally an

19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions

aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. In asking different people the same set of

questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. And it made me wonder,

what if these questions were just the jumping off point?

What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters?

So I adapted Proust questionnaire, and I wrote my own seven questions that I personally think are

pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where were you happiest? What is the quality

you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person, place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster?

And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honoured and humbled

to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all seven of these

questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or

the most surprising or created the most fertile ground to connect.

My guest today is the James Beard award-winning chef, writer and TV host Sophia Rowe.

Sophia produced and hosted the Emmy-nominated show, Counterspace, where

she used food to explore a changing world. She won the James Beard Award as an emerging

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