Table Talk: with Ed Balls

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ed Balls is an acclaimed broadcaster, writer, economist, professor and former politician who served as shadow chancellor from 2011 to 2015. On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv about the importance of Sunday lunches growing up, his long history of making bespoke children's birthday cakes and the times he turned his campaign team into a makeshift kitchen staff. All this and more is documented in his new book Appetite, out now.

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0:18.9	But hurry, it's only while stocks last. Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectators' Food and Drink podcast. I'm Olivia Potts.
0:37.3	And I'm Laura Prendergars. And today we are delighted to be joined by Ed Balls.
0:41.5	Ed Balls is a British broadcaster, writer, economist and a former cabinet minister.
0:47.3	Elected is the MP for Normanton in 2005. He served the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families,
0:53.7	and Shadow Secretary for Education, Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor.
0:58.9	After his parliamentary career, he has taken part in the Great Sport Relief Bake Off and one celebrity best home cook.
1:05.7	He has written two memoirs, and the second of which, Appetite, Out Now, focuses on his life through food. Ed, welcome to
1:13.4	table talk. Good to be here. Ed, we always start this podcast in the same place with a question,
1:19.8	what are your earliest memories of food? I think my earliest memories of food are having
1:26.2	roast dinner every Sunday with my mum and dad and then my sister.
1:32.0	And my brother, I guess I can sort of remember before my brother arrived on the scene.
1:38.1	And it would be a rotation of roast beef or pork or lamb or with Yorkshire puddings.
1:46.1	Always after we got back from church, We went to church every Sunday morning. Back then, it would be the one day of the week where
1:50.7	my mum and dad would have a glass of wine and would listen to family favourites on BBC Radio
1:55.9	too. My earliest memory, well, my earliest food encounter was having roast beef and Yorkshire puddings
2:01.6	at three weeks old, but I don't remember that.
2:04.6	Was that puried? How were you eating there?
2:06.6	Well, so there we were living in the centre of Norwich and the health visitor came to visit my mum
2:11.6	and said, you know, I think I'd be like 10 pounds when I was born, so I was quite a big baby.
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