1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to Ruthie's Table four, a production of iHeartRadio and 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: Adamized Studios. 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 2: The Food is Love and love is food. For Valentine's 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: Day today, we thought we should dedicate this episode of 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 2: Ruthie's Table four talking to the chefs, the managers, the waiters, bartenders, gardeners, 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 2: and some of our previous guests who spoke about the 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: importance of food and celebrating love. 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 3: Can I have a second to think about its. 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 4: Food is love? 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 5: That's a very tricky question. It could be so tailored 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 5: to any particular individual. 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 6: Have you done this to him yet? 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 7: He's French. 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 8: You can work it out. 15 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 7: Food is love, foody's love. 16 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 9: Wine is love. 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 8: Probably a nice bottle of rose Champaigne, that's love. 18 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 10: I think they're very closely linked with food, and because 19 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 10: I think the way to a lot of people's heart. 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: History food is love. It's about protection, it's about generosity 21 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 2: and consciousness, memories, memories, memories, and it's also about confidt. 22 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: We want to give other people comfort, so we feed them, 23 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 2: and as times when we need comfort, so we feed ourselves. 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 2: You were describing cooking as one of the great pleasures 25 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: the other night. 26 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 4: It's one of my biggest passions, you know, along with wine. Now, 27 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 4: I love to cook. 28 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 2: You know. 29 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 4: I was in the kitchen the other day cooking for 30 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 4: the kids, and Victoria was like, can I help, what 31 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 4: can I do? And I was like, honestly, sit down, 32 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 4: have a vagrant tonic, relax be with the kids. This 33 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 4: is what I love to do. 34 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: And I really relate to that because you kind of file. 35 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: There's a method, isn't there, But it's also creative and 36 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: it's also you're doing it for your kids who haven't 37 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 2: seen all day, and there's the anticipation, and I think 38 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: that is something why you probably like to cook, and 39 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: I like to cook. 40 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 4: It's just one of the main reasons why I love 41 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 4: to cook, because it's why I love Lego also, you know, 42 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 4: because it relaxes me, you know, and I'm forty seven 43 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 4: years old and I still sit there with you know, 44 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 4: on my own actually till two, three, four in the 45 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 4: morning doing Lego because actually it relaxes me. And it's 46 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,839 Speaker 4: the same cooking for the kids. I love to cook 47 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 4: for my parents. I love to cook for my friends. 48 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 4: And I think that it's obviously come from, you know, 49 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 4: my upbringing, and I tried to do the same, and 50 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 4: Victoria tries to do the same with the kids as well. 51 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 4: You know, we want them to be happy, we want 52 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 4: them to be healthy. 53 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: Do they cook with you? 54 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 11: They do cooking for my wife, straightforward as that, you know, 55 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 11: like that's my favorite thing to do, full stop. I 56 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 11: have cooked to press many people over the years, with 57 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 11: you know, various levels of suc Sometimes I think the 58 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 11: message was so deeply embedded in the like you know, 59 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 11: lentil broth, that didn't necessarily come across, but you know, 60 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 11: eventually it works. And I think it's something that people 61 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 11: do say quite often, you know, like, oh, you hear 62 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 11: it a lot in the kitchen, you know, put some 63 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 11: love into this. But when you actually put genuine love 64 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 11: into making something for someone you love, I think it's 65 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 11: it's it's it's elevated. 66 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 12: Love is a secret ingredient to a great dish. I 67 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 12: always like to think if I'm cooking for someone, I 68 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 12: always try to imagine that and cooking for my girlfriends 69 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 12: because then I know I'm going to put extra love 70 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 12: into it and you can taste the love every bite, 71 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 12: you know. Listen, my favorite meal at the moment is lasagna. 72 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 12: Lasagna is a dish made out of love and hard work, 73 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 12: so many different layers. You have to make the beautiful bechamel, 74 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 12: you have to make the beautiful sauce, you know, you 75 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 12: have to make the beautiful pasta, and everything has to 76 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 12: be perfect. So that's my favorite thing. 77 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 6: To do at the moment. 78 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 2: The lasagna. 79 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 12: Sure, do you know what, I don't have gun at 80 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 12: the moment. You're breaking my heart reminding me. But hopefully 81 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 12: I'll meet someone by then and I have something to cook. 82 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 13: You know, I love cooking. 83 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 14: I'm doing this play here at the moment, and I'm 84 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 14: actually living at a friend's house. My kids are spending 85 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 14: the summer with their dad and my mom's. But when 86 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 14: things are a little bit more normal and we're all 87 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 14: living together on under one roof, then it's I'd make 88 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,119 Speaker 14: them every weekend without fail. I do a Sunday roast 89 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 14: on a Sunday. My mom said, actually that one of 90 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 14: the funniest memories that she has with me is this 91 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 14: is my emotional connection to roast. In is that when 92 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 14: I went traveling around Asia, and I must have been 93 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 14: eighteen or nineteen, and I came back and she'd obviously 94 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 14: made a roast inner because that's why I said that 95 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 14: I wanted to come back for And we sat around 96 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 14: the table as a family, and once we'd finished, my 97 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 14: sister went, oh, thanks, Mum, that was delicious. Gravy was amazing, 98 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 14: and I just burst into tears because I'd forgotten to 99 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 14: put gravy or. 100 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: You've been way too long. I think. So the rose 101 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 2: tradition is something that goes back from your childhood to 102 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 2: your to yours and then to your children. 103 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 14: Yeah, but I think even my mom's childhood as well. 104 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 14: You know, I think she was sort of raised on 105 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 14: roast dinners. I mean, I mean, maybe it's because in 106 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 14: my family just the way that things have worked out 107 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 14: and my mom being, you know, a single working mother, 108 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 14: and that was possibly the one time a week that 109 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 14: we all did come together around a table. You know, 110 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 14: there wasn't there wasn't much of that. I don't really 111 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 14: have memories of sitting around a table as a family, 112 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 14: but I do on Sundays. I think I'm quite good 113 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 14: at rose, but I mean there's something like your mum's 114 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 14: cooking is there, so I can never quite get that 115 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 14: element in there that she seems together. 116 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 7: But I think it's just. 117 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: A lot of stock that she says. So it could 118 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 2: just be that. 119 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 12: I love to cook. 120 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 15: My dad was a coke I used to watch in 121 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 15: the whole time. It's something I do here as well. 122 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 15: I just kind of watch people cooking, and that's my 123 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 15: favorite thing to do, particularly when you work on the past. 124 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 15: I gave a spare moment. I just watch people, and 125 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 15: you pick up so many things. 126 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 16: Food and love. Gosh, food is love, isn't it. I 127 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 16: mean I cook for my husband every single day, and 128 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 16: that is like my way of showing love for him. 129 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 16: That's my love language for him. 130 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 2: Food. 131 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 16: His love language is definitely i'd say words of affirmation. Yeah, 132 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 16: it's definitely not food. He definitely doesn't cook for me. 133 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: I don't really cook. 134 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 13: I think my love language is probably being cooked for 135 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 13: eating the food. Food is the way to my art. 136 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 14: Just Yeah, if someone puts in a lot of time 137 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 14: and effort to cook a nice meal, I think that 138 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 14: says a lot and it's a nice little thank you. 139 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 2: And so do you do that with your children? Do 140 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 2: you cook with them? 141 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 11: Idea? 142 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: Do you think that you're interested in cooking for them? 143 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 2: Does come from your own childhood or idea? 144 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: Because it was such an unabashed expression of my father's 145 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: life for us, like there was no denying it. And 146 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: when someone is so excited about like the seer on 147 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: their baby back ribs, you know, and like look at this, 148 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: Look what I did. You know, it's so imbued with 149 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: love that you can't It's undeniable, and so you learn 150 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: it as a love language. I just had this beegind 151 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: I at a house full of people at our house 152 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: in Santa Barbara, and I was making all these different breakfasts, 153 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: and you know, my friends are like, oh my god, 154 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: we feel so terrible, and I was like, no, you 155 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: don't understand, Like this is my love language, Like I'm 156 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: so happy doing this. 157 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 10: A few years ago, I was living in Peru in 158 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 10: a van and it was my girlfriend's birthday. She's from 159 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 10: Australia and she'd been missing, you know, food from her home, 160 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 10: and so I decided I was going to make her 161 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 10: sausage rolls, which is easy here but not easy in 162 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 10: Peru because you can't get the puff pastry or even 163 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 10: the sausage meat like needs to be fresh minced and stuff. 164 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 10: So I went around town all day looking for all 165 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 10: of the ingredients. Never made pup paste before, made it myself, 166 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 10: but didn't have a rolling pin, so used a little 167 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 10: wine bottle, you know, went to the butcher there, and 168 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 10: this lady in full peruvium get up is there with 169 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 10: a machete, you know, hacking up the meat for me. 170 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 10: I didn't even have an oven, so I had a 171 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 10: borrow an oven and it was taken forever, took hours, 172 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 10: but it was a surprise, so she had no idea 173 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 10: what was happening. She just knew that I was cooking 174 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 10: up a storm. And it took like two days because 175 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 10: of the pup pastry having to chill. But they were 176 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 10: the most amazing sausage drills I've ever had, and I 177 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 10: don't think I'll ever beat it. She was blown away, 178 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 10: and yeah, she almost cried. 179 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 7: I suppose if you were ever to try and do 180 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 7: something romantic or think about, your first thought would always 181 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 7: be to use food as the gateway to enhance that situation. 182 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 7: And then your memories of a romantic scenario has always 183 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 7: been intrinsically linked to food. So I guess that's what 184 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 7: it brings up for all of us. 185 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 17: By the way, I fell, I fell in love with 186 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 17: my wife over dinner. 187 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 2: Did you tell me about it? That the story. 188 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 17: We had run into one another at an event in 189 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 17: New York, and through a variety of complicated circumstances, it 190 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 17: took us eighteen months to have the first dinner. Eighteen months, 191 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 17: which is extraordinary. 192 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: That's a lot of patience. 193 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 17: Yeah, but for both of us. And there I was 194 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 17: thinking about this woman that I had met eighteen months ago, 195 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 17: trying to figure out where to take her to dinner, 196 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 17: and we went to a restaurant called Allison on Dominic. 197 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 17: Dominic is the street in downtown New York, which was 198 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 17: not only really good food, but quite romantic. And that 199 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 17: was our first official date, June thirteenth, nineteen ninety four. 200 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 17: We still we celebrate the anniversary of that date more 201 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 17: than we celebrate our wedding anniversary. And I mean, she 202 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 17: claims that she knew that night were a good meal 203 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 17: at Allison on Dominic. I think I probably did too. 204 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 17: It was the beginning of a great romance. And now 205 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 17: twenty five years. 206 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 2: Of marriage, is the restaurant still there. 207 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 17: No, the restaurant is not there, but we've carried on 208 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 17: a tradition of having dates. 209 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 10: Since then. 210 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 17: I think one of the nicest parts of my life, 211 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 17: and there are many, is just being able to go 212 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 17: out to dinner alone with my wife. If I know 213 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 17: that I'm doing that, I look forward to it all week. 214 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 17: It's one of the things I missed the most out 215 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 17: of from the pandemic. 216 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,839 Speaker 18: So when we reopened after COVID, what I found absolutely incredible. 217 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 18: It was this sort of mentality of everyone just wanting 218 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 18: to be together and just be so respectful and so happy, 219 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 18: and I kind of, oh, what I remember when I 220 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 18: think about it is those big coats and blankets and 221 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 18: the big scarfs, and everyone was just so happy to 222 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 18: sit outside. There were evenings where it was freezing. It 223 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 18: was so cold and we were standing outside in our 224 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 18: big jumpers. But there was just something so magical about 225 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 18: it about society coming together again after being apart and 226 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 18: being in such a times and I just, yeah, I 227 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 18: kind of remember the opening. Of course I remember the 228 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 18: fears and everything else, but it just felt such a 229 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 18: joyous time and everyone was so happy, and yeah, everyone 230 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:13,959 Speaker 18: was wearing pig jacket. 231 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 2: That's all I. 232 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 18: Remember, but I remember that's a very it's a very 233 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 18: happy memory when we reopen again. 234 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 6: Just in addition to Sylvia's big jackets and people sitting 235 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 6: out time being happy. I'll never forget the bride sitting 236 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 6: outside on table three oh one in November and it 237 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 6: was raining and she was sitting there. 238 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: She was just there. 239 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 6: She was like, I'm having my wedding and it was 240 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 6: amazing and she and they had a great time. And 241 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 6: I also remember one of when we it was the 242 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 6: first time when we came back because there were obviously 243 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 6: quite a few closures, and every time was like not again. 244 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 6: And one of our very regular customer, Cissy Yard, and 245 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 6: remember when she first time she came back, she just 246 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 6: she stood in the door and she had just stuck 247 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 6: tears coming down. She was she just said like, oh, guys, 248 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 6: I'm just so happy to see you. I'm just so 249 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 6: happy that you are okay. 250 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 2: It was just so. 251 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 6: Sweet and we were like, oh, it was very emotional. 252 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 9: I would probably say if you were to ask people 253 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 9: closest to me, I'm not always the most fun to 254 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 9: be with in the kitchen because I was I didn't 255 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 9: have my stent in kitchens, you know, and I learned 256 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 9: from professionals, and it's a very tough place a kitchen, 257 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 9: you know, it requires a particular type of focus and 258 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 9: a sense of geography, you know, like knowing all spaces 259 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 9: and moving hot things, and I think I might take 260 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 9: it all a bit too seriously. It's a general note 261 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 9: for myself, but I think that my sister likes it 262 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 9: when I cook for her. My nieces like it when 263 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 9: I cook for them. I love cooking for my nieces. 264 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,839 Speaker 9: I love asking them what it is that everything that 265 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 9: they want. That to me is like, what is your favorite? 266 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 9: What do you want me to coming over? I'm going 267 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 9: to bring you anything that you want. We're going to 268 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 9: cook it, you know, and just the satisfaction of that 269 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 9: is there's nothing like that too. 270 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 19: I always think if you're trying to loose someone, getting 271 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 19: them involved in the process of making something that is 272 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 19: very important. So I would kind of like, here we 273 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,079 Speaker 19: make lovely like ravioli from scratch and and we make 274 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 19: pastor and it's a brilliant skill to learn. So I 275 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 19: think I would, you know, have the dough and the 276 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 19: filling and everything else like a thought if you're going 277 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 19: to do it, ready to go, and then I have 278 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 19: my verpasta machine set up at home and and get 279 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 19: them involved in the process of you know, making portaloni 280 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 19: or different types of pasta shapes and kind of you know, 281 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 19: you can show off a little bit and make something 282 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 19: together and then cook it together and eat it, and 283 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 19: you put everything together, which I think is quite romantic. 284 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 6: Food is love conjures up for me. 285 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 13: Toplet me some and stick toatalk. 286 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 2: Tell me about your love for chocolate. 287 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 20: My earliest memories are about loving chocolate. I remember once 288 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 20: when I was a very little girl, my big brother 289 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 20: who was a teenager. My parents said, you can have 290 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 20: the car if you bring Nancy home some ice cream. First, 291 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 20: he brought vanilla ice cream home. I put it under 292 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 20: the bed, never ate it because it wasn't chocolate. Why 293 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 20: would he bring me vanilla ice cream? But I've always 294 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 20: loved it, and as time has gone by, I've loved 295 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 20: it darker and darker and darker. 296 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 2: What about ice cream, because I did read that you 297 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 2: have ice cream from breakfast? Or is that an urban myth? 298 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 20: No, it's not an urban myth. It's convenient, it's right there, 299 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 20: it has long shelf life. I don't have to worry 300 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 20: about it. It's right there. And but I have it 301 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 20: for breakfast. It's a great way to start the day. 302 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 20: I don't have it every day, but I have it 303 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 20: often and when I was younger, I used to have 304 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 20: it before I went to sleep, a pint device chocolate 305 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 20: ice cream. But as time has gone by, the later 306 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 20: the chocolate, the less sleep I have. 307 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 13: If I make a Valentine's meal, I would probably make 308 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 13: a truffle Taglerini. 309 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 10: I think traffle is amazing. 310 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 13: I would make Taglierini with caviar, Taglierini lightly, you know, 311 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 13: tossed with butter and a tiny little bit of lemon 312 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 13: and then a massive spoofy of caviar on top, beautiful 313 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 13: glassy champagne. Yeah, I love it. 314 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 21: I Well, my instant thought is like a big warm pie. 315 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 21: It sounds horrible when I say it like that, but 316 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 21: like pies hold a very special place in my heart 317 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 21: being from the North, so I just feel like it's 318 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 21: a big hug in a plate, big pie. 319 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 12: That's what i'd say. 320 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 3: I'm half Italian, so I think it would definitely be 321 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 3: Italian for you. For me, I think probably, like from 322 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: the expression like labor of love, things that take a 323 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 3: long time to like prepare and cook for me like 324 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 3: really special because they've taken so much like care to 325 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 3: do so, like just a simple baked pumpkin, you have 326 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 3: to like peel it, and the preparation of it is 327 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 3: really long. So yeah, the longer and the more care 328 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 3: into it for me means more love's being put into it. 329 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 18: The meal I most enjoy eating with my pant is toast, 330 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 18: so yeah, it can be really anything as long as 331 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 18: it's with the person that you love. 332 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 13: As much as I love cooking for other people, I 333 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 13: think being cooked for, especially as a chef, is like 334 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 13: the nicest thing anyone could do, but everyone always gets 335 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 13: like quite nervous. I think cooking for you when you 336 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 13: do that as your job, but I literally couldn't care 337 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 13: less what anyone gave me. I would honestly just love anything. 338 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 8: Yeah, oh no, this is terrible. 339 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 5: The first thing that came to my mind was a McDonald's. 340 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't know food is love. I don't 341 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 5: know if it's a boring answer, but I'd probably just 342 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 5: go a bottle of champagne. 343 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 8: I would say freshness, seasonal, comfortable, cozy, and something like that. 344 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 8: At a moment in the world, you knowing bananas and 345 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 8: you look in nature and just you know, there's last 346 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 8: thing is happening, and it feels kind of hopeful that 347 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 8: you know, life carries on do you know what I mean. 348 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 5: I'm trying to think I should go for like a typical. 349 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 3: My name is Olivia and I work in the offesting 350 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 3: a bit of everything. 351 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 5: Really, I might have sticking on a button. 352 00:17:58,080 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 7: My name is Stephen Hampson and I'm one of the 353 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 7: strum managers. 354 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 8: My name is Christoph the head Somebody. 355 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 18: I'm Kitty and I'm Ruthie's po. 356 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 11: My name is jose Trevelli and I'm the co executive. 357 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 2: Chef of the River Cafe. 358 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 12: My name is Ricky and I'm one of the most 359 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 12: charming chefs at the River Cafe. 360 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 8: Tabby, I worked in the shop. 361 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 15: My name is Max. I'm a headwaiter the River Cafe. 362 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,479 Speaker 16: Yeah Immager, and I'm shop operations manager. 363 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 20: I would say. 364 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 10: My name is Jackie and I'm a chef. 365 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 18: My name is Sylvia Lezevska and I am reservations manager 366 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 18: at the River Cafe. My name is Alex Paidick. 367 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 6: I'm I'm a floor manager River Cafe. 368 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 19: I'm Otto and I'm a chef in the kitchen. 369 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 13: My name is Sophia and I'm a chef at the 370 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 13: River Cafe. I am Jess and I'm a chef the 371 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 13: River Cafe. My name is Sean Willowen and I am 372 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 13: the executive chef at the River Cafe. 373 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: Hi. 374 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 21: My name's I'm Rosie and I'm a pastry chef. 375 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 3: HI are called Sassy and I am a cook at 376 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 3: the River Cafe. 377 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 13: I'm Sula. I'm marketing an ecoms manager. I'm Hebee, and 378 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 13: I am a chef at the River Company. 379 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: Hi. 380 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 8: My name is Jamie Vilherner and I'm the gardener at 381 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 8: the River Campe. 382 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 2: Happy Valentine's Day.