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Speaker 1: Welcome to season two of Ruthie's Table four. I'm Ruthie Rogers,

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Speaker 1: the founder, chef and now podcaster of The River Cafe

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Speaker 1: in London. Food is political, food is passion, food is art,

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Speaker 1: Food is love. In this series, I will be talking

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Speaker 1: with amazing people, hearing their food stories, discussing the role

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Speaker 1: food plays in all their lives. Wolfgang Park has been

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Speaker 1: defined by his experiences as a chef.

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Speaker 2: My stepfather said, cooking is not a profession, but I

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Speaker 2: still remember when I left when I was fourteen years old,

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Speaker 2: and as I was walking out their house, he said, oh,

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Speaker 2: you're good for nothing. You're going to be back in

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Speaker 2: a month's saying. I said, I'm never coming back.

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Speaker 1: Dame Judy Dench discusses her discovery that success in acting

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Speaker 1: doesn't always translate into cooking.

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Speaker 3: My agent at the time he came down to lunch,

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Speaker 3: I made an enormous effort and I gave him lamb cutlets.

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Speaker 3: He finished the man he sat back and he said, well,

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you something, Jude. You didn't get the nbe

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Speaker 3: for cooking.

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Speaker 1: For Gwyneth Paltrow and her father, food was pure love

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Speaker 1: because it was.

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Speaker 4: Such an unabashed expression of my father's love for us,

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Speaker 4: like there was no denying it, and so you learn

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Speaker 4: it as a love language.

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Speaker 1: Our guests will be from across the world, together with

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Speaker 1: chefs and waiters who work every day at the River Cafe,

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Speaker 1: sharing their stories, memories and their recipes.

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Speaker 5: I think the best thing about the River Cafe kitchen

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Speaker 5: is about you coming in the morning and you don't

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Speaker 5: know whether you're going to be on the grill or

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Speaker 5: whether you're cooking pasta or cooking dovesols and pigeon in

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Speaker 5: the wood ovens. That really keeps you on your feet,

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Speaker 5: and that's why I've been here Nitty seven years now.

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Speaker 1: So listen to Ruthie's Table four on the thirteenth of

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Speaker 1: December on the iHeartRadio app, an Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.