Table Talk: with Henry Jeffreys

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Henry Jeffreys is features editor of Masters of Malt, and author of The Cocktail Dictionary. On the podcast, he tells Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts about living like the Goodfellas in Leeds, being 'portly' at university, and enjoying his mum's apple and bramble pie.

Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts talk to celebrity guests about their life story, through the food and drink that has come to define it. Listen to past episodes here.

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0:00.0	The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher.
0:25.9	Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectator's Food and Drink podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast.
0:34.5	And I'm Olivia Pott. And we're delighted today to be joined by Henry Jeffries.
0:39.1	Henry is a drinks expert and award-winning author.
0:42.8	His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Good Food, and of course The Spectator.
0:48.6	He was the features editor at Spirit Specialist Master of Malt.
0:52.3	And his latest book, The Cocktail Dictionary, is out now.
0:55.8	Henry, thank you for joining Table Talk. Great to be here. Yeah, yeah. I'm a fan, so it's good to be
1:00.8	on board. A friend of the show. It's lovely to have you with us. We're going to start where we always do
1:05.9	at the beginning. Can you tell us about your earliest memories of food? I'm not sure about my very earliest, but I was very fortunate that my mother was a good cook.
1:15.6	In fact, she was a sort of semi-professional cook. She went to Domestic Science College in Aberdeen.
1:22.6	She used to cook for the board of directors for Hodder and Stoughton publishers when she was young.
1:28.5	So she used to go out every day to Green Lanes.
1:31.5	They lived in Stoke, Newington, and visit all the Greek Turkish shops and buy things and cook for the board of directors and bring the leftovers home to my father, who was a trainee accountant.
1:42.6	So we used to eat very well, the kind of simple stuff,
1:48.0	the sort of roast chickens and the cakes, she's brilliant at, pies,
1:53.9	all that sort of stuff.
1:55.3	So we used to eat very, very well.
1:58.1	What she's not so good at is anything kind of east of Vienna. So, you know,
2:02.7	sort of curries and pilafs and anything spicy, she can't do really because she doesn't really
2:08.9	enjoy spicy food. So I'm not quite my earliest memory, but we did, we did eat pretty well. And did
2:13.8	you learn to cook at that stage? I didn't actually know. Oddly enough, I think my mother used to try and get me interested, but I was, I never cooked.
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