Table Talk: Gennaro Contaldo
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The Spectator
4.3 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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On the podcast he tells Liv and Lara about his upbringing on the Amalfi coast, what he's learnt from Jamie Oliver and how he came to love fish and chips.
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| 0:26.8 | Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectator's Food and Drink podcast. I'm Olivia Pops. |
| 0:34.5 | And I'm Laura Prendergast. And today we are delighted to be joined by Gennaro Contaldo. |
| 0:39.3 | Gennaro is an Italian chef, cookbook author and TV presenter, |
| 0:43.0 | as well as being known as Jamie Oliver's mentor |
| 0:44.9 | and Antonio Carluccio's travel partner on the travel show to Moody Italians. |
| 0:50.0 | Gennaro, welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:52.1 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm very excited also to be on the table talk also for my new book. |
| 0:59.8 | Oh, Gennaro, we're delighted to have you. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:02.8 | We always start this podcast in the same place. |
| 1:05.5 | We ask our guests what their earliest memories of food are. |
| 1:08.8 | What are your earliest memories? |
| 1:10.7 | Oh my God, there's so many |
| 1:11.8 | memory. You see, I was born in a Marlphi Coast, a small village in a Marlphi Coast, which is called |
| 1:18.1 | Minori. And all my early memory always to do with season, everything which has come out first |
| 1:26.5 | in seasons, there was a joy, that wasn't a celebration. |
| 1:30.6 | And now I forget when the cherries started coming out at the end of May and June, |
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