Table Talk: with Kate Young

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🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Kate Young is a food writer and chef, whose cookbooks take recipe inspiration from literary classics, recreating favourite dishes of Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, and more. She runs a catering company with Olivia Potts and, on the podcast, tells all about an Australian's idea of Britain, why she left the theatre to go into cooking, and, from personal experience, which dishes only work in fiction.

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	Hello and welcome to Table Talk. I'm Olivia Potts and I'm Nora Prenderg. Today we are delighted to be joined by Kate Young.
0:12.2	Kate is a food writer and chef. Her first book, The Little Library Cookbook, was published in 2017 and combine Kate's love of books and reading with cooking, featuring 100 recipes for dishes
0:22.9	from Kate's favourite works from fiction. Her new book, The Little Library Year, follows 12 months
0:28.5	of combined seasonal reading and eating. Kate, welcome to table talk. Thank you. Kate,
0:34.2	you grew up in Australia. What was food like when you were younger? Very good. My parents are both
0:39.3	very good cooks and my grandmother's a very good cook and my late grandmother, my dad's mother,
0:44.8	is also a very good cook, all in quite different ways but there was a lot of food in my house.
0:49.8	And where exactly in Australia? Where are you? In Brisbane, which is about halfway up the East Coast, for anyone who doesn't know it, it is quite tropical.
0:57.9	So we've got lots of really good fruit, lots of really good seafood, lots of really nice, fresh, you know, produce year round.
1:05.0	It's a really beautiful, lovely place to grow up.
1:07.9	Every time I go back, I have a big list of things that I'm going to eat while I'm there because they do taste better there. And what are the kind of classic dishes that
1:14.4	you grew up eating? I grew up eating a lot of things with mango because there's a lot of mango. So
1:20.7	mango soy, mango ice cream, mango and salads, mango basically and everything. I ate a lot of seafood. We
1:26.9	had a lot of prawns. We had a lot of seafood. We had a lot of prawns.
1:28.4	We had a lot of fish.
1:29.6	We do grilled fish a lot.
1:31.4	And my parents would barbecue really frequently.
1:34.0	We both had a, both my parents, they lived separately.
1:37.2	They split up when I was five, but they both had barbecues on their back deck.
1:41.5	And so really frequently, that's how we'd cook dinner.
1:43.5	So whether it's sausages or grilled vegetables or frequently, that's how we'd cook dinner. So whether it's
1:44.3	sausages or grilled vegetables or burgers or whatever else, we'd do something on the barbecue.
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