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Felicity Jones's avatar

Lesson learned - always listen to Donna. Plus I suspect you were born to mess with peoples’ heads.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Well, there’s been a lot of practice. And yes, Donna is always right, she told me so.

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Clare Heal's avatar

I'm so sad I never ate at your restaurant when it was in London.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

It wasn’t that good anyway.

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Caroline Osella's avatar

Ok, you've convinced me. Well, I've eaten strawberry risotto in Italy, so this wasn't too far out as a concept. Come to think of it, I've also seen Parmesan gelato in Italy, so yeah, let's keep going there. Here's to divergent thinking - the cognitive science people tell us it's the basis for all creativity.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Well, we’ll agree with that. Actually, risotto with strawberries isn’t too far away from rice pudding with a spoonful of jam.

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Andy Lynes's avatar

All this would totally confuse John Shuttleworth. Do you know his song, I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now?

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Vanilla Black's avatar

But Andy, does the idea of something from the sweet zone moving over to the savoury world please you at all?

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Andy Lynes's avatar

Yes, definitely. It depends on how well it's executed but I'm up for it. Did you see they did some backwards dinners at Fat Duck fairly recently and served desserts first and worked back to starters? It's an obvious idea I suppose but intriguing nevertheless.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Ah yes I saw that. We did a pop up with Josh Overington and he did a savoury sabayon as a pre starter and a sweet sabayon after dessert. We did a dessert with sweet mayonnaise.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Just listened to it, he’d be a tad baffled.

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Mark Diacono's avatar

I wasn’t sure about the sound of brie ice cream but the moment you put sorrel in the same place it all made sense. You should do cooking for a living , so you should.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Thanks Mark, it’s all about balance. Yes, if I’d pulled my socks up at school I would have done well.

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Mark Diacono's avatar

Same

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Cheryl  Queen of Markets's avatar

Wait...Burger King sold wine? In medium or extra large beakers with plastic straws?

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Sorry. That bit was me being daft. I was blaming BK for everything.

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Cheryl  Queen of Markets's avatar

I think I knew that. It was fun to imagine a what if moment.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Haha. To be honest it would make them busiest place in town.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Wouldn’t suprise me.

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