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Table Talk: Lily Dunn

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The Spectator

Daily News, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.3825 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Lily Dunn is a writer, teacher and lecturer in creative writing and narrative non-fiction at Bath Spa University. Her latest book Sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling is out now. On the podcast, Lily talks about her first memories picking blackberries in Cornwall, her love for all kinds of toast and her culinary experiences in Italy. 

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0:00.0

For the past 25 years, Bordeaux Index has been relentless in our focus on changing the fine wine market for collectors and investors.

0:08.5

Today, we are the largest seller of fine wine and spirits globally.

0:13.4

Bordeaux Index, join usator's Food and Drink podcast.

0:28.6

I'm Lara Prendergast.

0:30.6

And I'm Olivia Potts.

0:31.6

And today we're delighted to be joined by Lily Dunn.

0:35.6

Lily is a writer, teacher and lecturer in creative writing and narrative

0:38.8

nonfiction at Bath Spa University and her latest book, Sins of My Father, a daughter, a cult,

0:45.0

a wild unravelling, is out now. Lily, welcome to Table Talk. Hello, thank you for having me.

0:50.7

Lily, we're going to start where we always do at the beginning and ask you, what are your

0:55.1

earliest memories of food?

0:57.1

My earliest memories, I think, are actually when I was really young, sitting on a wall

1:02.7

in Cornwall picking Blackberries.

1:05.0

I was on holiday with my grandparents.

1:06.7

They used to take me and my brother down to Cornwall quite a lot with my mum, but also

1:10.0

without my mum.

1:11.0

And I do remember this, I think, just because of the response from my grandparents that they were laughing

1:16.5

because most of the blackberries were going in my mouth or on my face or on my hands.

1:21.0

So I think I was quite young in that memory.

1:23.9

A lot of my early memories do involve my grandmother, actually my mum's mum, because she was a brilliant cook.

1:30.1

And she also made her own mooseley.

1:32.8

She made her own yoghurt, which was always very sour, but delicious.

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