Fred Siriex on the dishes that have shaped him, moving to England and how his parents taught him about loyalty

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Fred has become known as the nation’s favourite maitre d’ and TV personality.

He initially wanted to be a chef, but having decided that the repetitive nature of professional cooking would stifle his creativity, he switched his attention to the front of house and has never looked back. Fred worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in both France and the UK, and rose to fame back in 2013 on Channel 4’s BAFTA-winning matchmaking show First Dates, where his warmth and charm was a tonic to the nerve-wracked daters entering the first dates restaurant.

A very successful TV career has come off the back of that and he’s become a well-known and in-demand presenter, as the presenter of Remarkable Places to Eat on the BBC, and and he also travels the world with Gordon Ramsay and Gino D’Acampo on ITV’s Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip series.

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0:00.0	On behalf of this week's sponsor, I wanted to tell you about the amazing work that Deliveroo and the Trussle Trust have been doing together to support people facing hardships across the UK. To date, Deliveroo and its customers have helped provide over 2 million meals to people through the app and their Roundup and Donate feature, as well as helping to fund vital wraparound services
0:22.7	provided by food banks. Deliveroo have also pledged to increase this number to 4 million meals globally.
0:29.5	Any Deliveroo customer anywhere in the UK can add their support, and it's so easy to do too.
0:35.1	You simply choose to round up your order to the nearest pound
0:38.5	when you place it on the app on the checkout page. If every customer who use Deliveroo,
0:44.3	and there are millions every month, rounded up just 10p on one order, the impact would be
0:50.7	enormous. Times are hard right now and a lot of people are struggling to afford the
0:55.3	essentials, leading to food banks needing to support more people than ever before. So this provision
1:01.3	of meals really is crucial to so many people. The money also goes to supporting the food banks
1:07.2	with financial support in the form of advice on debts and benefits, as well as
1:13.1	connections, which will hopefully end the need for food banks and lift people out of poverty
1:18.6	long term. A small donation in this very simple way really can make a huge difference. If you can,
1:25.6	consider rounding up your next order on Deliveroo. You can give as little
1:29.3	or as much as you like. Find out more at Deliveroofullife.com. I'll pop the link in the show notes.
1:36.2	Thank you very much to Deliveroo. Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
1:46.0	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
1:52.2	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
1:56.2	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before being
2:02.1	cast off to the Desert Island. The question is, what would you choose as your last meal?
2:08.0	Hi, I hope you're all very well. I'm so excited about how many of you have subscribed to my new
2:15.1	newsletter, Dinner Tonight. Thank you so much. It feels like a really
2:20.0	exciting new venture. And I know that there are a gazillion free recipes on the internet.
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