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Speaker 2: and m Intelligence Style for Busy Women. Today's December eighteenth,

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Speaker 2: and you can feel the festive quality the River Cafe,

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Speaker 2: the Christmas trees on the lawn, and the room looks great.

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Speaker 2: We have lights, we have people coming in to spend

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Speaker 2: more time at lunch, and there is a feeling of

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Speaker 2: the celebration. So we're going to talk about what we're

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Speaker 2: actually cooking in the River Cafe right now. And so

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Speaker 2: here we are with Sean Owen and Joseph Tavelli, the

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Speaker 2: executive chefs, and we're all going to talk. So tell

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Speaker 2: me about what we're cooking today, Sean. We both have

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Speaker 2: your chef's sites on Joseph in preparation for tonight. Sean,

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Speaker 2: running away from the.

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Speaker 3: The middle of lunch.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry idea what they're celebrating in there, because we're

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Speaker 2: in here. So what did you I was on the menu?

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Speaker 2: What are you thinking about when you're thinking about your menu?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this week I think is pulling out all the

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Speaker 4: stops for decadent dining. I think people feel that they

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Speaker 4: can eat in a way this last week coming up

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Speaker 4: to Christmas, than the way that they're not going to

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Speaker 4: be eating in January. So I'd like to just put

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Speaker 4: on some things I just think sound quite flamboyant decadent.

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Speaker 3: I mean, today at lunchtime, what is it Thursday?

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Speaker 4: I've put on the penne with the vodka and tomato

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Speaker 4: and Chilian cream. But I was trying to explain to

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Speaker 4: the chefs how to cook that. So it's not just

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Speaker 4: a tomato sauce with a vague hint of vodka, but

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Speaker 4: it has to be a tomato sauce with vodka cooked

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Speaker 4: into it. And then what we've also done is put

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Speaker 4: it through the movie. So it's very smooth.

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Speaker 2: Why did you take it through the recipe?

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Speaker 3: Just say it tastes step by stay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so with vodka cream and.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so been using the penne. That is a smooth penney,

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Speaker 4: so it hasn't got the ridges on it, which I

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Speaker 4: think is really nice for that kind of dish.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you disagree with it.

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Speaker 4: And then fry some garlic, a couple of clothes of garlic,

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Speaker 4: drain the liquid off the tomatoes and chopped tomatoes, put

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Speaker 4: them in, and then I put like a good glug

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Speaker 4: like probably I mean for a whole restaurant of people,

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Speaker 4: I would use a whole bottle of vodka, but if.

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Speaker 3: You're making it for two, maybe not a whole bottle.

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Speaker 4: It's a good, good, generous shot of Vogora two depending

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Speaker 4: on how in our case, probably half a bottle of vodka.

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Speaker 4: Then cook it down with a flick of chili and

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Speaker 4: for about twenty minutes, and then we put it through

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Speaker 4: the movie so it's really smooth. And another thing we

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Speaker 4: never do it, Yeah, I think so nice, there's no gesture.

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Speaker 4: And then put a splash of cream in to just

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Speaker 4: And then when we're serving it, we're warming up the penne,

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Speaker 4: well we're heat cooking the penneating the penne, adding that

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Speaker 3: Give it to a king. I was going to say,

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Speaker 3: may the taste.

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Speaker 2: Everybody probably wanted to taste the tomato sauce like never before.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I put it on for staff lunch and

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Speaker 4: I said, without the extra shot of AKA. But it's

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Speaker 4: It feels a bit like a bit of fun, which

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Speaker 3: I think beautiful.

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Speaker 5: It's funny how somethings just suit certain moments, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: It's obviously a Christmas thing, you know, Like in fact,

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Speaker 5: someone said to me, what keep asking me what's your

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and of course you could have it on a

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Speaker 4: But somehow that last week of the year where you

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really nice here in these things. Because you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm not there by definition when you're telling people how

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Speaker 5: But you've just described exactly what I said last night.

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Speaker 2: think was also partly inspired by the time of year,

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Speaker 5: It's also true, oh my gosh, we've never had such

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Speaker 5: So you've got this lovely sweet fruit which is often candied,

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Speaker 5: This bullito misto with these kind of three sauces is

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Speaker 5: the mustada. Then we have horse radish, which is obviously

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Speaker 5: Horse radish with great horse radish and then chop it

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Speaker 4: Yesterday I was putting mustada on the blast, but there

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Speaker 3: A kind of tiny orange like maybe like a mandarin

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Speaker 5: And then there's a third sauce, which is we make

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Speaker 5: exactly the same. But the Bangyette sauce is probably more

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Speaker 5: Southern French sauce, I suppose, but with boiled eggs chopped

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Speaker 5: and tons of parsley and the yellow.

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Speaker 2: Do you just use the yellow?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's some When I was in bowl and

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Speaker 2: Aisy and in real they were only using yellow. But

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Speaker 3: Just how it used to make that. We used the

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Speaker 3: Knives. Let's bring back maybe we could do.

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Speaker 5: It's a great.

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Speaker 2: At once, well there was a double bladed one which

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Speaker 3: It's really like upper body.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, to the left way. So so what about

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Speaker 2: the let's talk more about the meats.

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Speaker 5: So then the meats. Yeah, you can have all sorts

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Speaker 5: I think I like blito actually all year round is delicious.

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Speaker 5: it's freezing, it's raining. Something warming with this burjawed fruits.

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Speaker 5: Had tongue, which is very commonly we have tongue ox tongue.

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Speaker 5: so they were boiled slowly the day until the evening.

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Speaker 5: And then coin. I think coachino is pretty much essential

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Speaker 3: I really like what we do.

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Speaker 2: Just a coin and lentils as a as a plate.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but that ice cream is really that ice cream.

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Speaker 4: I think because you make the does that you make

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Speaker 2: I think the hint about thee or the Vincena ice

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Speaker 3: It's so good, it's a really good case.

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Speaker 4: Still have, Like I I was thinking I was going

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Speaker 3: It's all the glasses and so it's not too dry.

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Speaker 2: And then also the I think the great thing about

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Speaker 2: So you put the mars, so you make this paste

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Speaker 3: Yeah, more alcohol and the end. That's the case.

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Speaker 4: It reminds me when I was a really young chef.

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Speaker 2: I think if you don't, if you don't grill it,

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Speaker 2: Okay. So we have the ice, we have the with vadka,

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Speaker 2: and we have a candied hazel nut and Clemantine Christmas cake.

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Speaker 2: Happy Christmas, Happy Christmas, Happy Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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