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

And I'm Norr Pendergast. And today we are delighted to be joined by Oliver Woodhead.

Oliver is the mastermind behind the Parisian restaurant, Lont, a British brousery using almost exclusively French produce.

It has been described as where British gastronomy and French towa meet.

Oliver, welcome to table talk.

Thank you for having me.

Oliver, as listeners know, we always start at the beginning.

What are your earliest memories of food? Actually, the first one was when we were being picked up from kindergarten.

By the time the person being us up had left and then come back, Grandma, who'd always been living with us,

would have just managed to make it down the steps and we would catch her pretty much every time with the hand in the prune jar and then we were always given a prune as well so

that's kind of that first memory that I have but another one was down in Cornwall when we were in

Falmouth and we would always go my father and I would go and pick up the fish and chips

from a place called the gem,

which is very distinctive and on a slope.

And I must have been, I suppose, four, five.

And it still came wrapped in newspaper in those days

and the salt and vinegar and.

And it's funny, what am I doing now?

Selling fish and chips to the friend

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