Gourmet Garbage Josh White and Eleanor Follows

Life ain't easy right now, and we've had a few bumps in the road at Gourmet Garbage Towers in the last couple of weeks. So we've taken the opportunity to bring you another candid conversation in the form of a bonus episode, while we get all of our ducks in a row for the three-part season finale! Laugh, cry, and whinge about the world with us. And do listen to the whole thing for what really is the best way to end an epsiode. 

We said we'd never do it again, but here we are, doing it again! It's a massively stressful week here at Gourmet Garbage headquarters, with Josh sitting his residency test for the UK and Ellie having a huge job interview lined up. And there isn't a chance in hell we could give a full episode the attention it deserves. I mean, look at the title of this episode. Massively low effort. Still, here's a truncated episode where we chat life, lockdown, Halloween, true crime and Borat. A truly varied discussion. Bon appetit!

California. Sun, sand, and stunning servers at SUR Lounge. This week, we're diving into the hugely popular Bravo series Vanderpump Rules, which sees some of the best looking hospitality workers in Los Angeles party with each other, bicker with each other, and do each other, all under the watchful eye of proprietor Lisa Vanderpump of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fame. Because it's such a high-energy show, we pair it with a high-flavour meal of balsamic mushroom spaghetti and spinach, which meets a mixed response. Prepare for horror, hilarity and halitosis as we discuss such stars as Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute, Jax Taylor, Scheana Shay, Brittany Cartwright, Tom Sandoval, Tom Schwartz and Ariana Madix.

This week we're not cooking, and we're not watching any specific reality TV show. Instead, we're drinking orange peel martinis and chatting about life, lockdown, listener feedback, and general reality TV news, including the tragic confirmation that Keeping Up With The Kardashians is coming to an end, the firing of Teddi Mellencamp from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the conflicting Paris Hilton autobiographical documentary This Is Paris, and whether Come Dine With Me narrator Dave Lamb really is the peak of British comedy. Also featuring our good friend and TV lover Celia Carbajosa, who brings a certain worldly flair with her love for such cultural institutions as Love Island and Nando's.

This week, we return to Josh's homeland to catch up with Bravo's antipodean series The Real Housewives of Auckland. Rather surprisingly, for a show about New Zealanders that only aired for one season, it might just be the cattiest Housewives series that's been produced. Specifically, we're focusing on episode nine of season 1, 'Launch Off', which sees Angela and Gilda launch two very different books with two very different parties. And because we're heading back to Josh's hometown, we're pairing it with a Kiwi comfort meal of curried sausages with reduced cream mashed potato. Featuring all the housewives of Auckland, including Anne Batley Burton, Angela Stone, Gilda Kirkpatrick, Julia Sloane, Louise Wallace and Michelle Blanchard. 

See the full recipe for curried sausages and reduced cream mashed potatoes here.

This week there's no Ellie. She's bedridden with a cannula, and so can't use her right arm, which means she's completely unable to talk into a microphone. But, to whet your Gourmet Garbage whistle, Josh is here with a bonus episode, featuring our newest fan, 'Big Ed' of TLC's 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days!