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Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts interview notable guests about their life, through the food and drink that has come to define it.

Lara Prendergast is the Food and Drink Editor of Spectator Life.

Olivia Potts is Spectator Life's Vintage Chef.

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Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts interview notable guests about their life, through the food and drink that has come to define it.

Lara Prendergast is the Food and Drink Editor of Spectator Life.

Olivia Potts is Spectator Life's Vintage Chef.

    With Anna Jones

    With Anna Jones

    Anna Jones is a food writer, food stylist and author. She is known predominately for her focus on vegetarian cooking, and her new book Easy Wins celebrates a capsule pantry of twelve ingredients. 

    On the podcast she tells Lara about her way in to becoming a food journalist, cooking vegetarian at home, and her desert island meal. 

    • 24 min
    With Gennaro Contaldo

    With Gennaro Contaldo

    Gennaro Contaldo is an Italian chef, cookbook author and television presenter. He is also known as Jamie Oliver's mentor and Antonio Carluccio's travel partner on Two Greedy Italians. His latest cookbook Gennaro's Verdure – which celebrates seasonal vegetables – is out now. 

    On the podcast he tells Liv and Lara about his upbringing on the Amalfi coast, what he's learnt from Jamie Oliver and how he came to love fish and chips. 

    Photo credit: David Loftus 

    • 24 min
    With Alex Jackson

    With Alex Jackson

    Alex Jackson is the founder of Sardine and currently head chef at Noble Rot, Soho. His cookbook Frontières: the food of France's borderlands is available now. 

    On the podcast, he tells Lara and Liv why the smell of chip fat reminds him of home, how his interest in cooking was ignited during time spent at university France, and divulges his desert island meal. 

    • 29 min
    With Thomas Robson-Kanu

    With Thomas Robson-Kanu

    Thomas 'Hal' Robson-Kanu is former professional footballer who was part of the Welsh team that reached the semi finals of Euro 2016, thanks largely to a memorable goal he scored against tournament favourites Belgium. He is also the founder of The Turmeric Co.

    On the podcast, Thomas tells Lara and Liv how his Welsh and Nigerian heritage influenced the food he ate as a child, how turmeric was the miracle cure to an injury-ridden early career and how footballers prepare nutritionally for big games.  

    • 28 min
    With Professor Charles Spence

    With Professor Charles Spence

    Professor Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on how an in-depth understanding of the human mind will lead to the better design of multi-sensory foods and products. He is the author of several books including his most recent, Sensehacking: How to Use the Power of Your Senses for Happier, Healthier Living.

    On this episode he talks about how he started experimenting with food and the human senses, working with Heston Blumenthal, and how he doesn't understand ice-cream.

    • 33 min
    With Edward Stourton

    With Edward Stourton

    Edward Stourton is a broadcaster who has worked as foreign correspondent for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Sunday Program, and presented the Today Program for ten years. He has authored eight books including his most recent, Sunday: A History of Religious Affairs through 50 Years of Conversations and Controversies which is available now. 

    On the podcast, he recalls chocolate-stuffed baguettes on Swiss ski slopes, reveals the disappointing breakfast options in the Today Program green room, and explains why heaven is eating oysters to the sound of trumpets. 

    • 25 min

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