Table Talk: Alexandra Shulman
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts talk to celebrity guests about their life story, through the food and drink that has come to define it. Listen to past episodes here.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before you start listening to this podcast, a reminder that we have a special subscription offer. |
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| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectators' Food and Drink Podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Laura Prendergast. |
| 0:24.6 | And I'm Olivia Potts. |
| 0:25.6 | And we're delighted today to be joined by Alexandra Shulman, the journalist, author and former editor-in-chief of British Vogue. |
| 0:32.6 | She was the longest-serving editor in the history of the publication. |
| 0:35.6 | Alexandra, welcome to our podcast. Thank you. Great to be here. |
| 0:39.2 | And we'll start where we always start at the very beginning. |
| 0:41.9 | Can you tell us your earliest memories of food? |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I've always loved food. |
| 0:46.6 | So I think my earliest memories were my parents' flat or home. |
| 0:52.4 | You grew up in London. |
| 0:53.0 | I grew up in London. And I was thinking about this the other day and we had |
| 0:58.4 | at that stage, we lived in central London and you got deliveries. So like the butcher would come and |
| 1:03.7 | would deliver the meat and we had a mincer, one of sort of big mincer that you clamped on the kitchen |
| 1:09.9 | table and he'd grind the mints |
| 1:12.2 | and then the green grocer would deliver the groceries and it was a small flat so I was very |
| 1:19.1 | aware of sort of food it wasn't like it wasn't part of our life having food so I just remember |
| 1:25.3 | the deliveries I think that was my earliest memory. Who was the cook in your |
| 1:28.9 | house? My mum. And was she good? My mom's a brilliant cook. She came from the generation that was |
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