Table Talk: with Skye McAlpine

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Skye McAlpine is a Sunday Times columnist and the author of two cookbooks. She joins Lara and Olivia down the line from Venice, where she grew up. On the podcast, she talks about moving to the city as a child, her favourite Venetian meals, and why, despite being a dinner party maestro, she doesn't believe in starters.

Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts talk to high profile 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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0:18.7	Hello and welcome to Table Talk. I'm Olivia Potts and I'm Narra Prendergast.
0:24.5	Today we are delighted to be joined by food writer Sky McAlpine.
0:28.5	Sky who joins us today from Venice is a columnist for the Sunday Times and the author of two cookbooks.
0:34.7	Her first cookbook was a table in Venice and her second cookbook,
0:38.6	A Table for Friends, is going to be released next week. Sky, thank you for joining us.
0:43.0	Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. Sky, we'll start where we always start on this podcast,
0:48.6	despite the fact we're recording remotely, but we've managed to get you in Venice, which is nice.
0:52.6	What are your earliest memories of food
0:54.8	when you were growing up? Gosh, where to start? Almost all my growing up memories seem to center
1:01.3	around food. But I think my earliest memories are eating with my parents. They seem to always
1:08.2	have people round for lunch or for dinner. It was never just the
1:11.2	free of us eating. There was always kind of a gang. So I think my earliest, earliest memories,
1:15.9	probably before we moved to Venice when I was absolutely tiny, because we moved to Venice
1:19.7	when I was six. So I probably was about maybe three at the time. At the time we had a house
1:24.3	in Hampshire. And I just remember my parents would host these kind of amazing
1:29.4	Sunday lunches that kind of started early in the day with all the cooking and kind of morphed into
1:35.5	the evening and we did these lovely like long tables that it was just the toddler so I sort of at lunch
1:41.1	but not really at lunch and it kind of pop in and out and come and help myself to bits on the table and sit on someone's lap for a bit and then potter off and then potter back.
1:48.7	And it was always such a happy time with people and chatter and lots and lots of food.
1:56.5	And I think that's probably kind of where my love of food started from, associating food with
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