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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 Andy Burnham. Andy is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017.

He also served in Gordon Brown's Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2007 to 2008,

culture secretary from 2008-2009 and health secretary from 2009 to 2010. Andy, welcome to table talk. Thank you, Lara. It's great to join you. Andy, we're going to start where we always do at the beginning and ask you, what are your

earliest memories of food? Oh, goodness. I'm trying to think. The things that are kind of vivid in my

mind, and it's my typical northerner schick coming up

straight away i remember sort of a friday night and the chips coming in from the chippy you know

it was a bit of a chippy tea thing as people know and uh you know i always get kind of laughed at for

uh kind of doing my at for doing my professional northerner routine.

But I do remember that really vividly, the smell of the vinegar, the sort of white paper,

you know, that all of that is really, really vivid in my mind. So I probably would say that.

And can you give us the sense of what meal times were like

in your family when you were growing up? Yeah. So, I mean, I'm one of kind of three brothers,

the middle of three. And I guess the first thing I would say would be competitive, really,

is what they would have been in that we all loved our food and my mum was always you know really

good cook she'd put a lot of effort into it he had to be pretty quick off the mark in our

house and otherwise you know you would find your brothers had stolen a march on you and you know

had got the best the best roast potatoes or something

like that. They were always kind of competitive, but brilliant, though. You know, we're a close

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