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Hello. forward slash voucher. Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectators' Food and Drink podcast.

I'm Laura Prendergast.

And I'm Olivia Potts.

And today we're delighted to be joined by Laura King.

Laura is affectionately known as the Caviar Queen. She is

widely regarded as the UK's leading caviar expert and owns and runs Kings find food, the largest

important of caviar into the UK, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. Kings have a royal

warrant from the late queen and continue to supply

the royal households as well as all sorts of other companies around Britain. Laura, welcome to

Table Talk. Thank you very much. Lovely to be here. Laura, we're going to start where we always do

at the beginning and ask you, what are your earliest memories of food? assume not caveat oh god no no oh that's a really

good question i think an egg probably with a soldier you remember when used to dip it in being sort of

vaguely in a high chair ish that's what i would remember food. And what were meal times like in your family?

I think they were sort of quite structured, very simple, but always together, which was good.

And I'd love to say that I kept that going, but I'm not quite sure that's actually true. But pretty structured, really. And who was who was doing most of the cooking my mother

did most of the cooking what was she cooking oh god what did she she cooked everything really i mean we

weren't i think she you know she worked as well so i think food it certainly well i don't know that

she would have known much about caviar either,

but I think quite simple, but she's a very good cook.

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