Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with John Torode

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This week John Torode talks us through his Dream Dinner Party and we are off to Singapore to board the Orient Express! All aboard!

John is one of the food world’s most recognisable faces. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, starting his career in the world of food at the age of 16.

He credits his love of food and passion for cooking to his grandmother, who raised him from the age of 4. After apprenticeships at some of Melbourne’s best restaurants, he moved to the UK in the 1990s, where he quickly made a name for himself. He worked his way up from a sous chef at Quaglino’s and he’s had his own hugely successful restaurants, the likes of Smiths and The Luxe.

He first appeared on ITV‘s This Morning in 1996 and became a household name as the co-host of Masterchef in 2005 which will enter its 20th season next year. He’s written numerous best-selling cookbooks and made a whole host of award-winning TV shows and was honoured in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2022 for outstanding services to food, broadcasting and charity.

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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.
0:08.3	This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us all about their dream dinner party.
0:13.8	This is a game. I know a lot of people have played perhaps on long car journeys or maybe even a first date.
0:20.6	So it's really fun to sit down with a different guest each week and hear who they would invite. perhaps on long car journeys or maybe even a first date.
0:23.5	So it's really fun to sit down with a different guest each week and hear who they would invite and what they would serve.
0:27.1	This week we have John Terode sharing his dream dinner party with us.
0:31.4	And let me tell you that John fully embraced the concept and really went for it, which I so loved.
0:38.5	The fact that he gave up his seat to his wife, Lisa, is also very romantic. John was on Desert Island Dishes just
0:43.7	a few weeks ago, and I know lots of you loved his episode with a few people saying it was their
0:48.8	favourite ever. So if you haven't listened yet, make sure you do. Now, without further ado, here is John.
0:57.8	I think the word dinner party is a slight misnomer. I think dinner party, it sounds a bit boring, right?
1:04.3	And so for me, it needs to be sort of zooped up a bit and become a little bit more exciting.
1:08.3	I like the idea of people coming for an experience or going
1:12.5	to an experience to have more than just sit around a table. It can be, yeah, it needs to be more
1:18.7	fun. It needs to be more exciting. It needs to be a bit juzzi. It's either going to be juzzi or it's
1:24.3	got to be in the water. One of the two. Okay.
1:28.1	I like where this is going.
1:29.4	Yeah.
1:29.8	So John Terode, welcome to your dream dinner party.
1:32.9	Let's start by talking about the guest list.
1:35.0	Who are you going to invite?
1:36.6	Right.
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