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

I'm Olivia Potts and today I'm delighted to welcome Melissa Thompson to the podcast.

Melissa is an award-winning food writer and recipe developer.

She is the founder of Supper Club and Pop-Up Falmouth and was awarded the Guild of Food Writers Award in 2021. She's just published her first cookbook, Motherland.

Melissa, welcome to Table Talk.

Hi, Olivia. Thank you for having me.

Melissa, we're going to start where we always do at the very beginning and ask you, what are your earliest memories of food?

My earliest memories of food is my parents cooking in the kitchen and the smells.

I think smells are probably one of the most evocative senses when it comes to food and memories.

And my dad was in the Navy, and he had travelled around a lot

and would kind of pick up different styles and things,

different sort of cuisines from around the world,

and then kind of recreate them.

We lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years when I was younger.

I don't remember it, but that really informed a lot of the food that we ate when we were

younger.

He would cook a lot of Cantonese food, a lot of

Jamaican food, and then just kind of constantly experimenting. And my mum's Maltese, so she,

my dad's Jamaican, my mom's Maltese, and so she would cook kind of her classic dishes,

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