Stuart Gillies
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893 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2 Mar
Stuart Gillies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you weren't afraid of failing?
I wasn't afraid of failing.
I wasn't afraid of being on my own.
I was quite comfortable in my own environment, willing to take risk, language, people laughing at you, because that's what happens when you go abroad.
You have to have really thick skin and just move on.
You can't be sensitive.
Because an English cook in the 80s in Europe, trust me, we were a laughingstock.
A butt of jokes.
We were the butt of jokes.
And when I arrived in Rome and was in the kitchen, I was never called Stuart once.
And all the time I worked in Rome, they called me L'Inglesi.
L'Inglesi?
Where's L'Inglesi?
Dove L'Inglesi?
all the time it was just constant and didn't bother me because i was just learning i was just eating learning and rome was like it was literally like a magical story book of if you could find the most amazing place to go and work and
indulge where would it be that would be the storybook because people would come on a bicycle in the morning and bring produce in a box they'd have a coffee they'd have a grappa they'd talk about produce and then the next person would come and the truffles would be in a little cloth and everything was so romantic and incredible because i'd never seen food like that coming from london and the uk and even sweden
You didn't get produce like I saw in Rome.
That produce was just mind blowing.
And that was what gave me the benchmark for the future of taste.
Right.
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