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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 we're delighted to be joined by Cresteda Bonas, the actress who's been in all sorts of plays, including the Great Gatsby, an evening with Lucian Freud and the importance being Ernest.

Later this year, she's in an upcoming ITV drama. Cressida, thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

So let's start at the beginning.

Tell us about your earliest memories of food.

My earliest memories of food would be Pop-Tarts.

I think nowadays everyone is so aware of sugar and not to eat so much sugar, but when I was younger, I don't think my parents were that aware, so we would have Pop-Tarts a lot.

Was there a particular flavour that you liked?

Chocolate.

I actually had a Pop-Tart the other day for the first time in a very long time and I couldn't believe

how sweet they actually are and that we would just eat them. And were they, were they a breakfast

treat or a snack or something you'd eat all the time? My parents got divorced when I was about five and

my dad when he was a bachelor for I mean he's now

remarried to an amazing cook and he in that time learned to cook very well so he's a

brilliant cook but at that time he was a bachelor and had no idea how to cook so he would often give me

pop tarts for breakfast which sounds very bad father skills.

I do, breakfast.

Yeah, well, I know, I know.

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