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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 we're delighted today to be joined by Dolly Auditon.

Dolly is the author, journalist and podcast host, who is the author of the bestselling memoir,

Everything I Know About Love, co-host and co-creator of the Hilo podcast,

and her new book, Ghost, is published on 15th of October. Dolly, welcome to our podcast.

Thank you so much for having me. I just want to say, I want to apologize in advance that today is BIN day in Camden.

So you've probably already heard the orchestral sounds of the first recycling

truck right outside my flat. And I'm afraid that will continue for about an hour. It's just,

it's just the soundtrack you want when you're about to talk about food for half an hour.

I know. Exactly. So we're going to start right at the beginning where we always begin what are your

earliest memories of food it's so funny with memory really really early memories that it's it's so

difficult to deduce what is your memory and what is folkloric tales of memory passed down to you from your parents?

I really do think that about most of my childhood.

I can't really deduce what are the things I remember, what are the things I've seen on sort of

90s VHS tapes, home recording tapes, and what my parents told me my memories are.

And there we go.

That's taking two minutes.

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