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Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the spectator's Food and Drink Podcast.

I'm Lara Prendergast.

And I'm Olivia Potts.

And today we're delighted to be joined by Nell Hudson.

Nell is an actress best known for her roles in Outlander, Victoria, and most recently the latest

Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. Her debut novel, just for today, was written on the set of Victoria.

Nell, welcome to Table Talk. Thank you so much for having me.

Now, as regular listeners

will know, we always start at the same place at the beginning and ask you, what are your

earliest memories of food? So I've listened to your podcast now and was prepared for this question.

And one of the questions I've heard you ask is whether people were fussy eaters, to which my answer is

yes,

very much so. I was the fuzziest eater that you could be as a child. So anything that was

sort of scary to a child, I refused to eat. I remember once even taking a mouthful of broccoli

and immediately just vomiting all over my mom's lap. So it was bad. But I was lucky because mum is a brilliant,

brilliant cook. And as I got older, I got to enjoy that more and more. And every week on a

Sunday my dad would be in charge of the roast. So food growing up was amazing. I just took a while

to kind of adapt to it. And what were

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