Andi Oliver: The Pepperpot Diaries

<p>This week Gilly is with chef, TV presenter and now, finally author, <a href="https://www.independenttalent.com/corporate/andi-oliver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andi Oliver</a>.&nbsp;</p><br><p>She’s one of the most successful black women on British TV, a respected pundit on Caribbean cooking on Radio 4’s <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01klvhq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Kitchen Cabinet</a> and rocking it in the best frocks on the telly in the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071y6r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Great British Menu</a>. And after her return to her ancestral home of Antigua with her daughter Miquita for the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013x63" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BBC</a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;she’s rethinking her connection with who she is. Her mix of musings and recipes from her trip though the Caribbean are captured in her first book, <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-pepperpot-diaries/andi-oliver/2928377170233" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Pepperpot Diaries</a>, a stirring together of her stories and complex layers of identity.&nbsp;</p><br><p>And as she and Gilly contemplate what it means to be 60, she tells us what it’s felt like waiting to exhale. </p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>