One from the archives: Dawn O'Porter on lockdown life, parenting and honeymoon food

Desert Island Dishes

Food, Food Interview, Desert Island, Desert Island Dishes, Arts, Food Podcast, Dish, Interview, Society & Culture, Cooking, Chef, Personal Journals

4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dawn O'Porter is an author, broadcaster, writer, podcaster and journalist.

Having trained at drama school, Dawn become a TV presenter, rising to fame with her critically acclaimed BBC documentary Super Slim Me. Many more TV shows followed and in 2013 began a new passion for Dawn as she began writing more seriously and started a new chapter of her career. She released her first novel which got shortlisted for the Waterstone’s children book prize, more books followed - she’s now written 7 and she has continued to have huge writing success as a Sunday Times Bestseller.

Dawn lives in Los Angeles with her movie star husband, two young sons and her dog Potato.

Dawn has said

“I love food. I realise that’s a basic statement and might not sound like it warrants a whole load of page-time but for me it does. Food is the great passion and pleasure of my life. Reading cookbooks, shopping for ingredients, spending hours in the kitchen, making it, serving it and then eating it. Brilliant”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
0:06.0	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
0:12.8	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
0:17.1	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before being
0:23.6	cast off to the desert island the final episode we are sharing from the archive before our new season
0:30.1	begins is with the fabulous d'warno porter now fabulous isn't really a word that i find myself using very often? And I don't think there are many people I would use it about, but I just think it's the right word for Dawn. She's so great, and I've been a fan of hers and her work for many years, and it really was just a joy to get to sit down and talk all things food with her.
0:55.4	She's a real kindred spirit as she loves food.
0:59.1	She loves sandwiches.
1:00.4	She loves crisps and crisps in sandwiches, which are all signs of good character, in my humble sandwich-loving opinion.
1:09.8	I really hope you enjoy this and you've enjoyed our trip down
1:13.8	memory lane and we will see you very soon for the new season. Exciting. My guest today is
1:22.5	Dawn O' Porter. Dawn is an author, broadcaster, writer, podcaster and journalist. Having trained at drama school,
1:30.6	Dawn became a TV presenter, rising to fame with her critically acclaimed BBC documentary Super Slim Me.
1:36.9	Many more TV shows followed, and in 2013, Dawn began a new chapter of her career. She released
1:42.6	her first novel, which got shortlisted for the
1:44.8	Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. More books followed. She's now written seven, and she's
1:49.8	continued to have huge writing success as a Sunday Times bestseller. Dawn lives in Los Angeles
1:55.1	with her movie star husband, two young sons, and her dog, Potato. Dawn has said, I love food. I realize that's a basic
2:02.7	statement and might not sound like it warrants a whole load of page time, but for me it does.
2:07.8	Food is a great passion and pleasure of my life, reading cookbooks, shopping for ingredients,
2:13.5	spending hours in the kitchen, making it, serving it, and then eating it. Brilliant.
2:18.6	Welcome, Dawn. Thank you. It's honestly such a pleasure to have you on Desert Island dishes.
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