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Hello and welcome to Table Talk, Spectator Life's Food and Drink podcast. I'm Olivia Potts.

And I'm Lyra Prendergast. And today we are delighted to be joined by food writer B. Wilson.

B is the author of six books about food and eating.

And her last two books, First Bite and the Way We Eat Now,

were the Fortnum and Mason food books of their respective years.

She's won five Guild of Food Writer Awards for her journalism.

B, welcome to Table Talk.

Thanks so much for having me.

Bea, we always start our podcast with the same question, which is, what are your earliest memories of food?

Oh, I feel like all of my memories are connected with food.

I have a very early memory to do with, I've been fixated with butter for about as long as I

can remember. I remember just being very, very young and thinking, this is just the most delicious

substance in the world. How can I maximise the amount of this that I eat? And I remember,

but I mean, this clearly can't be my earliest food memory because it was a point at which I was being given some control over what was on my plate.

But we had baked potatoes and my dad had just put the butter on the table and allowing me to butter it myself.

And I remember just I just kept going and kept going and kept going.

And I was thinking, how much butter can I add before somebody stops me? And it was quite a lot. I think it was

about half a pack. That's clearly not my earliest memory because I must have been about six or seven by that

point. And I suppose, I don't know, I've got, I've got all of these memories of foods I don't really

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