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Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectators Food and Drink podcast.

I'm Olivia Potts and I'm Laura Prendergast.

And today we're delighted to be joined by Amber Guinness.

Amber is a cook, author and journalist.

Born in London and growing up in Tuscany, she now lives in Florence, where she co-founded the Anianno Painting School, an artist's retreat.

And her first book, A House Party in Tuscany, is out now.

Amber, welcome to Table Talk.

Thank you for having me.

Amber, as listeners know, we always start at the beginning.

What are your earliest memories of food?

Well, my earliest memories of food,

they're quite linked to where I grew up. So I grew up in this farmhouse on a beautiful hill in Tuscany between Siena and Montalcino. And until I was about five, it was essentially a building

site. And when my parents bought it, it had a roof and windows and floors.

But it didn't have electricity or water or plumbing or sort of quite a lot of basic things.

So we kind of camped in the in the big room upstairs for a long time because it was very geared towards agriculture. The ground floor

would have all been for livestock and pigs and chickens and things. And so we were camping upstairs

with a very basic gas cooker linked up to a bombolone, which is a gas cylinder. And so she would make

quite a lot of pasta. And she would make something called pasta with

data sauce which was my sort of dad's harking back to his Oxford bachelor days of and it was very

cold butter mixed with tomato paste and parmesan and then you toss the pasta through and for some

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