Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Sophia Money-Coutts (mini episode)

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sophia Money-Coutts joins us today to talk all about her Dream Dinner Party. Sophia is a British journalist and author. She writes regularly for The Telegraph, has written 5 novels and has been described as the new "queen of rom coms".

Her latest book Looking for Love is out now. Sophia did her own brilliant podcast a few years ago on freezing her eggs, it's honestly fantastic and I really recommend having a listen if that's something you might be thinking about. She's warm, witty and I was so happy to have her on The Dream Dinner Party.

Find Sophia on Instagram @sophiamcoutts

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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.
0:08.6	This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us all about their dream dinner party.
0:14.1	This is a game I know a lot of people have played on long car journeys or maybe even first dates.
0:19.4	So it's really fun to sit down with a different
0:21.6	guests each week and hear who they would invite and what they would serve. You're allowed to
0:26.6	invite all people, anyone you want. And I think it's basically impossible to listen without thinking
0:32.6	of your own answers. This week we have Sophia Money Coot, sharing her dream dinner party with us. As always,
0:39.3	Sophia really embraced the concept and this was a really fun one.
0:43.3	Sophia is a brilliant writer, she's a journalist but also a brilliant novelist and her writing is witty
0:49.3	and clever and as you will hear, she is just the same as her writing. Her latest book, Looking for Love, came out earlier this year,
0:57.4	and you can find her on Instagram at Sophia M. Coots for more updates on her writing and books.
1:04.2	Now, without further ado, here is Sophia's dream dinner party.
1:10.7	So I think something interesting is happening in the world of dinner. Fires Dream Dinner Party.
1:15.5	So I think something interesting is happening in the world of dinner parties.
1:21.2	I think for a long time, people were a bit, I don't know, a bit snooty about them almost.
1:22.7	And I think they're having a resurgence.
1:23.5	What do you think?
1:27.6	No, I would totally agree because I think what's happening, and I have this conversation with lots of friends at the moment is going to restaurants is too expensive, right? I'm talking from
1:33.8	London, obviously. The amount it costs now to have dinner per head and sometimes what I
1:38.8	particularly resent, especially in London, sometimes it's really very average and it's still really expensive.
1:46.0	And I would say most people I know are cutting back, have cut back, are going out way less than they were because it's just got so crazy expensive.
1:56.4	And the rise of the like 40, 50, even 60 quid main course is absolutely ludicrous and
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