Max La Manna on sustainable living, why painful sandwiches are the best and a surprising last meal

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Max is a champion of the low waste and sustainable lifestyle. He’s a chef, presenter and award-winning author and has been described as a bona fide millennial heartthrob. His recipe content and food shows have been seen by over 1 billion people.

He talks to Margie about why the best sandwich are painful to eat and his choice of his last supper might surprise you! What would you pick? I know it's a very hard question to answer but it's also impossible not to think about your own choices.

Max has been plant-based since 2011 and says his biggest ambition has always been making sure his recipes are accessible to everyone without being at all preachy about being vegan. Through his viral recipe videos and work with BBC Earth and beyond, Max has inspired hundreds of thousands of people across the world to rethink their approach to food consumption and made it his mission to breathe new life into leftovers that are typically destined for the bin.

The son of a French chef father and a mother of Italian heritage, food was very important to them as a family when he was growing up. In the early days of his career, he supported himself by cooking everywhere from pizzerias to Michelin-starred restaurants and it was this ultimately that led him to challenge his own values.

Max has got a new cookbook out now called You can Cook This which you can buy here.

Thank you to our sponsor Lloyds Bank for supporting us this season and thank you to this week's episode sponsor, St Pierre Bakery, for helping us to bring the show to you this week

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0:00.0	This episode of Desert Island Dishes is brought to you in partnership with St. Pierre.
0:04.6	You might already be familiar with their delicious brioch. Inspired by Parisian cafe culture,
0:10.5	St. Pierre Brioche is light, soft and golden, making for an idle pairing with both sweet
0:16.1	and savory dishes. Honestly, it's so good. Burgers in a brioche bun are a match made in heaven.
0:24.1	And leftover roast chicken sandwiches in soft brioche is on a par with the Boxing Day sandwich,
0:29.3	in my opinion. One of the most delicious things that we used to do when we were little was to make
0:34.2	brioche sandwiches with lots of fridge coldcold butter and then squares of dark chocolate,
0:39.2	which I think is a traditional French afternoon snack and it's heaven. If you haven't tried it,
0:44.7	you must. You can find St Pierre in selected supermarkets nationwide today and make every day
0:50.7	magnificent. Thank you very much to St. Pierre. This episode of Desert Island Dishes
0:56.0	is brought to by Lloyd's Bank. With their club Lloyd's current account, you can now get
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1:34.9	I highly recommend watching The Bear if you haven't seen it yet. It's all about a talented
1:40.0	chef who's presented with the challenge of overhauling his family sandwich shop.
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