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Thank you. spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectator's Food and Drink Podcast.

I'm Laura Prendergast.

And I'm Olivia Potts.

And today we're delighted to be joined by Theo Randall.

Theo is an English chef who specialises

in Italian cuisine. He's the proprietor of Theo Randall at the Intercontinental Hotel on

Park Lane, and he is perhaps best known for being awarded a Michelin Star at the River Cafe in London.

His new book, Vodora, is out now. Theo, welcome to Table Talk. Thank you for having me.

Theo, we're going to start where we

always do at the beginning and ask you, what are your earliest memories of food? So my earliest

memories of food, my mother, my mother was an artist and I grew up in a very kind of artistic family.

My father's an architect and so we had this sort of quite an interesting upbringing. My parents

were obsessed by food and

my mother being Scottish was a very frugal cook so she really taught me a lot about cooking from an early

age but what my kind of earliest memories with her baking and she would bake three times a week and

she'd make bread and she'd make cakes and it was kind of a bit odd because if we were at home on a

holiday or something she'd be painting and then she'd stop what she was doing and then she'd sort of

make us lunch or dinner or whatever so it was always it was always involving her doing her kind of

work but my earliest memories of probably baking bread and actually helping her make the bread

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