Table Talk: with Ella Risbridger

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🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Table Talk, Lara and Livvy talk to Ella Risbridger, chef and writer, whose new recipe book is Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For. It's part memoir, part cookery; exploring mental health, friendship, love, and the redemptive power of food and cooking. On the podcast, Ella talks about the man that she moved from Dubai to London for, what it's like to be the cover girl of Aga Living (can you tell she grew up with an aga?), and the recipe for the best roast chicken in the world.

Please note that this podcast features a candid discussion of suicide and suicide ideation.

Table Talk is a series of podcasts where celebrity guests talk about their life stories, through the food and drink that have come to define them.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Table Talk, Spectator Life's Food and Drink Podcasts.
0:11.0	We are delighted to be joined on Table Talk today by Ella Rizbridgeer.
0:15.0	Ella is a writer and poet whose first cookbook, Midnight Chicken, has recently been published by Bloomsbury.
0:25.9	Part memoir, part cookery, midnight chicken explores mental health, friendship, love,
0:29.7	and the redemptive power of food and cooking, all through the medium of recipes.
0:36.0	So hello, welcome to Table Talk. Can you start by telling us a bit about your first, your earliest memories of food?
0:38.2	My earliest memories of food.
0:43.4	I know that I used to insist on having milk warm in the microwave for 19 seconds,
0:47.5	which sounds like the most disgusting thing imaginable.
0:49.3	Just like, just enough to take the chill off.
0:50.5	Not enough to be warm.
0:52.7	Earliest memories of food.
0:54.9	Who was the cook in your household when you were younger?
1:01.5	So my mum very diligently did the cooking when she could.
1:02.8	My sister, she worked a lot.
1:09.0	And so when we were little I had a nanny who used to, we had tuna pasta bake every day.
1:10.6	We had so much tuna pasta bake.
1:11.2	It was delicious.
1:12.8	It hasn't put you off.
1:15.4	I think I had to have a lot of time away from it.
1:19.6	But that was when both my parents were working full time.
1:25.9	And sort of between, constant thing of being between school and nursery and nannies and childminders.
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