John Lanchester
speaker
548 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
John Lanchester’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yota Motolenghi, he said.
Lovely bloke, I'm told.
Colleague of yours, yes?
To Katrina, who gave a complicated half nod.
Literally the nicest man in the world, everybody says.
And yet the fact is that you have to say, objectively, that he has done more damage to this country than the Luftwaffe.
I'd heard this before, and marriage involves compromise, settle down for the ride.
I'm not sure, Michael said.
It's completely true to say that Ottolenghi has caused more damage to Britain than the Luftwaffe.
It's to do with the net destruction of competence.
You go to someone's house for supper, not here, obviously, Tanya, and you come in the door and you can see from the other side of the room, 20 feet away, that it's Ottolenghi.
You see the pomegranate seeds strewn all over everything, and you know what's coming.
Here we go again.
A random assembly of ingredients thrown together by someone who spent 10 hours shopping and 10 minutes, open quotes, cooking, close quotes, i.e.
throwing things together.
And the crucial point is that they have no idea
what it's supposed to taste like, but it has no relationship to any food they actually know about or have eaten before, except at the houses of other people who use the same cookbooks in the same way and therefore have exactly the same level of total cluelessness.
Sumac, nobody has a clue how to use it.
Zatar.
Nobody knows what that is.
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