Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Gennaro Contaldo (mini episode)

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We have a returning guest for you this week on our side dish in the form of the Gennaro Contaldo. Gennaro is one of the UK’s most loved chefs - widely known as the man who taught Jamie Oliver everything he knows about cooking and he's going to be sharing his Dream Dinner Party with us. Referred to as everyone’s favourite nonno – he’s written more than a dozen best selling Italian cookbooks including his latest one Cucina which is a cookbook of Italian classics that help you to spend less and eat better. It’s a simple philosophy – delicious hearty meals using accessible and affordable ingredients – encouraging an ethos of zero waste – meaning your budget is put to very good and delicious use.

The question is: who would you invite to your Dream Dinner Party and what would you serve them to eat?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to another episode of our side dish, the dream dinner party.
0:08.5	This is a mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us all about their dream dinner party.
0:13.9	They're allowed to invite four guests and really that's because I think personally five people
0:19.6	is the optimum number for a really great dinner party.
0:23.2	They can be dead or alive, anyone they like, and importantly, they're going to be talking us through their dream menu.
0:30.0	We have a returning guest for you this week in the form of Gennaro Contaldo, one of the UK's most love chefs, widely known as the man who taught Jamie Oliver,
0:39.6	everything he knows about Italian cooking. Referred to as everyone's favourite nono, he's written
0:45.8	more than a dozen best-selling Italian cookbooks, including his latest one, Cochina, which is a cookbook
0:51.9	of Italian classics that help you to spend less and eat better.
0:56.9	It's a simple philosophy, delicious, hearty meals using accessible and affordable ingredients,
1:03.6	encouraging an ethos of zero waste, meaning that your budget is put to very good and very
1:09.7	delicious use.
1:15.3	I'm going to link it in the show notes and as always you'll find all of our guest books on the Desert Island Dishes website so you can check them all out there too.
1:19.6	Thank you so much for listening to the Dream Dinner Party.
1:22.3	I'm so happy you're enjoying it.
1:24.4	Without further ado, here is Gennaro's dream dinner party.
1:31.1	Well, I love going and also I like to have a dinner party. I'm very sociable. I like to meet
1:38.9	so many people. There's so many beautiful people all over the world. But you know what?
1:43.4	I want to meet them all.
1:45.3	And so do you get to throw many dinner parties?
1:49.2	Lately not, because we've been quite busy, but when we get a chance of something of the other
1:54.3	half week I. And so, Janaro, welcome to your dream dinner party.
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