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Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Who Was That?

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

5.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A roast dinner in Australia turned into a permission slip to live braver. While watching my mother-in-law work magic on potatoes, we swapped chef names and techniques—then hit an unexpected insight: cultural icons don’t always cross oceans or decades. Delia Smith defined cooking for so many in the UK, yet the name didn’t land in another kitchen. That gap sparked a question we rarely ask out loud: if even beloved legends fade from memory, what are we really chasing when we hesitate, polish, an...

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0:00.0

Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

0:10.0

Something funny happened when I was in Australia, staying with my mother-in-law just a couple of weeks ago.

0:16.4

Gosh, we had so much fun over a week together.

0:19.7

What's interesting is she's an incredible, I think she's

0:22.6

chef level in her kitchen. What she creates beats so many restaurants that I've been to.

0:28.0

And what's interesting is I requested a roast dinner. She was like, what is it? What could I make

0:32.8

you? And I love a roast. In the UK, we call it a roast. Some places call it a baked dinner. It's like beef,

0:39.1

lamb, chicken, roast potatoes, roast vegetables, sweet potatoes, cauliflower cheese. Sometimes you add a

0:44.9

Yorkshire put. I'm not crazy for those. You have gravy. It's heaven. Okay. And as she was making

0:51.2

the potatoes, I was watching her because I want to make potatoes as well as she does.

0:57.3

And she was talking to me about this technique and how she adds flour, et cetera, et cetera.

1:02.9

And there are so many famous chefs now, right?

1:05.4

I mean, there's the Gordon-Ramsie way, the Jamie Oliver way, the Ina Garten way, the Martha Stewart way.

1:10.2

I mean, countless, countless chefs Oliver way, the Ina Garten way, the Martha Stewart way. I mean,

1:18.1

countless, countless chefs, right? And I said, me and my dad used to follow Delia Smith's cookbook. And what's interesting is Wendy, my mother-in-law, had never heard of Delia Smith.

1:25.8

She was an English chef. She had many cookbooks over her time.

1:29.7

But I got to tell you, when I was growing up, it was Delia Smith. She had a TV show. Oh, to be very

1:34.4

Delia Smith was always known as a real compliment. Why am I telling you this? People are forgotten.

1:43.0

Even famous people who've had incredible books, recipes, all the things,

1:48.1

they're forgotten, which is a reminder to not be afraid. Right. Even people who made a huge impact

1:57.1

in their lifetime, they're forgotten. People don't even know who they are now. And Delia Smith was in my lifetime. In England, she was royalty. People don't know her in Australia.

2:06.3

Let me ask you, do you know who Delia Smith was? Probably not. This allows me to feel so free.

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