This is Spectator Radio and you're listening to Table Talk with Olivia Potts and Lara Prendergast.

Hello and welcome to the Spectator's Food and Drink podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast. And I'm Olivia Potts.

So Livy, what have you been cooking recently? Well, as we record, we're just starting to dip into autumn and it's getting a bit colder and a bit darker.

So I've been preparing lots of soups and curries and casseroles and sticky, spicy cakes for future vintage chef recipes for The Spectator.

What have you been eating this week?

Well, actually, not so much eating eating but last week we had a host of

different parties here at the spectator one of which was the writers party celebrating our 190th anniversary

journalist parties famously don't have much food and this was no exception. I don't think there was any

there was a bag of popcorn open at one point but but there was basically no food, but it was...

But the drink was free-flowing.

There was a lot of drinks, so it was good fun.

And we're delighted on this episode to be joined by the editor of the spectator, Fraser Nelson.

Welcome, Fraser.

In your office.

Well, let's jump straight in and start at the beginning.

Tell us about childhood food. What are your early memories of food, Fraser? I guess being involved in tussles with my mother, I was not a great

finisher of dinners when I was small. And my parents were quite understandably off the opinion

that you should finish the plate.

So what I remember are battles.

And what kind of foods would you battle over everything, or did you pick your battles?

I remember battling over mints and tatties.

Right.

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