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

And I'm Laura Prendergast. And today we are delighted to be joined by Theo

for now. Theo is one of London's leading jewellers and has been making original jewellery and

silverware in his workshop and studio on the Fulham Road for over 40 years. Theo, welcome to

Table Talk. Good afternoon. Theo, we always start this podcast with the same question.

What are your earliest memories of food?

I would think Semolina.

I think I only noticed things I didn't like.

I think that's the way it sort of goes.

I think my first pineapple was a seminal moment.

I think it tends to be pretty much sort of nursery food.

I don't remember sort of my mother's milk or anything of that sort.

And you were born in Egypt.

Did you spend time in Egypt as a child?

No.

I mean, I was only there sort of momentarily till I was sort of six months or nine months.

And then we went to somewhere else, Pakistan, India.

We were in Germany for a bit.

And then back to it, the first time I came back to England that I remember was, I suppose, in the mid-50s.

And I remember coming back on a boat, it took a very long time,

and then being at my aunt's flat, which she shared with my father,

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