This episode of Table Talk is sponsored by Berry Brothers and Rudd, Britain's oldest wine and spirit merchant.

It isn't possible at the moment to go to your favourite restaurant because restaurants are closed.

But Berry Brothers and Rudd have nobly stepped into the breach with their fantastic new at-home service.

Berries will send a magnificent three-course meal directly to your house,

and they'll also provide the ideal wine, or wines, to go with the food.

What a delicious idea.

Go to spectator.co.com forward slash berry brothers to find out more.

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

and I'm Laura Prendergast.

And today, we are delighted to be joined by Elliot Higgins.

Elliot is an investigative journalist. He is the founder of Bellingat, an investigative website

that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence. And he is particularly

known for his investigations into the Syrian Civil War,

the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the Salisbury Poisonings,

and he's the recipient of multiple awards for his journalism.

Elliot, welcome to Table Talk.

Thanks for having me on.

Elliot, we always start at the same place on this podcast.

Tell us about your earliest memories of food.

Thinking back to my family, my mother's from Cornwall.

So my grandmother, she was a proper Cornish kind of lady of the farm, I guess you could

call her. So she was always cooking all kinds of things, cakes and treats and pasties in

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