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Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Georgio Locatelli

03 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 7.468 Jessie Ware

Hello and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here at Mum's house.

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7.929 - 8.05 Lennie Ware

Hi.

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8.511 - 14.525 Jessie Ware

Mum and I are both looking a little sun-kissed. Freshly turned, yeah. Went on holiday last week. Yeah. Had the best time.

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14.685 - 18.073 Lennie Ware

It was wonderful. I've forgotten how well we got on.

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18.61 - 26.559 Jessie Ware

I know. Why did we get on so well? Because we weren't doing the podcast. There was no cooking. I think I was very kind to you this week.

26.679 - 27.299 Lennie Ware

You were kind.

27.339 - 33.466 Jessie Ware

I looked after you. You did. You did. Yeah. Shout out Pelagoni in Zakynthos. Oh, my goodness.

33.606 - 37.35 Lennie Ware

We had the best fun. I made a new best friend. Oh, my God.

37.43 - 38.291 Jessie Ware

Penny.

Chapter 2: What exciting news does Giorgio Locatelli share about his role on Celebrity MasterChef?

379.707 - 380.449 Giorgio Locatelli

Carla Rossi.

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380.589 - 388.952 Jessie Ware

Carla Rossi, who messaged me yesterday a picture of you at a barbecue. What was on the barbecue menu yesterday?

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389.168 - 409.595 Giorgio Locatelli

Okay, so there was some chicken, chicken thighs, then we marinated, and I think Plaxi prepared these two different marinades. One was a bit, it was like a jerk, and then the other one was kind of like a greeny one. It was really, really delicious. Yeah. And then there was some sausages, of course. You cannot have a barbecue without sausages. What kind of, yeah.

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409.975 - 432.711 Giorgio Locatelli

They were like just 100% pork sausages, Italian pork sausages from the Italian butcher. And I also had some kind of like... I don't know. You know, you take spring onions, okay, and then you just clear it really well, tops and bottom. And then you wrap it up with a thing of bacon. And then you press it really nicely, and then you put it in the fridge. And then you cool them down.

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432.771 - 451.628 Giorgio Locatelli

When they're cooled, then you put them on the grill and roll them gently, gently. And the idea is that it's really croquant on the outside. And the onions is cooked in the middle. It's a typical thing, Sicilian thing. It's actually on the book that I give you, there is a recipe for it. There's a description of that. Yeah, it's very, and the streaky bacon is perfect for that.

451.969 - 459.003 Giorgio Locatelli

You know, which is something that you don't find so much in Italy. So it's with the streaky bacon, they come absolutely perfect, beautiful.

459.104 - 460.266 Lennie Ware

Are you Sicilian?

460.246 - 482.791 Giorgio Locatelli

No, I'm not. But I fell in love with Sissi when I was about 30. I never been, you know, I come from Northern Italy. And, you know, the Northern Italian always think that the Southern Italian, they just, you know, they don't want to work. It's a big divide. It's a big divide, yeah. Big divide. And so, and I got invited there when I was 31 or 32. I got invited there to do a project with olive oil.

483.251 - 505.778 Giorgio Locatelli

And I fell in love with the place. I fell in love so much. And, you know, then from that year for 10 years onwards, we rent a house on the same place for 10 years and we went back. And, you know, the cuisine was so... Because Sicily is so different than Italy. It's right in the middle of the Mediterranean. So it was the most important piece of land in the world for thousands of years. And then...

Chapter 3: What tips does Giorgio have for finding the best olive oil?

798.263 - 802.93 Jessie Ware

Would you like to do the honours, Giorgio? Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.

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803.517 - 809.786 Giorgio Locatelli

I think I'm the first Italian to be nominated as MasterChef judge.

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810.166 - 811.188 Lennie Ware

Wow. Yes.

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811.568 - 814.953 Giorgio Locatelli

Of England. English MasterChef.

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815.534 - 817.116 Jessie Ware

You're doing the celebrity MasterChef.

817.136 - 818.438 Giorgio Locatelli

The celebrity one, yes.

818.478 - 820.721 Jessie Ware

You are the judge with Grace Dent.

820.801 - 824.907 Giorgio Locatelli

With Grace, yeah, which is like a great girl, northern girl, lover.

825.167 - 827.991 Jessie Ware

We've had her. She's lovely. Have you filmed it yet?

Chapter 4: What unique culinary experiences does Giorgio recommend in Sicily?

1629.61 - 1641.989 Giorgio Locatelli

Sorry. And so that tells you. So obviously you always try to get the one that they picked. End of spring, start of summer. Okay. Because that's where you get the best. So is that the number of days? The day that it's been picked. Okay.

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1642.109 - 1643.492 Jessie Ware

So we're going for 150, 150.

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1643.512 - 1645.135 Giorgio Locatelli

120 to 150.

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1645.175 - 1646.778 Jessie Ware

This is such good intel.

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1646.798 - 1647.199 Giorgio Locatelli

Yeah, yeah.

1647.439 - 1657.445 Jessie Ware

Thank you. Okay, so Rabbit, around the dinner table was kind of, so your uncle would be bringing in some beautiful pastries.

1657.465 - 1659.307 Giorgio Locatelli

Pastries, yeah, big cake all the time.

1659.407 - 1662.711 Jessie Ware

Would there ever be leftovers from the hotel?

1663.352 - 1675.705 Giorgio Locatelli

Yeah, there would be stuff like if they had a big banqueting on the Sunday with lasagna and there would be some leftovers that would be coming. But my grandmother used to be like kind of, my grandmother Vincentina, which is, you know, the...

Chapter 5: How does Giorgio describe his approach to cooking with fresh ingredients?

1821.819 - 1823.682 Jessie Ware

Do you remember when you created that dish?

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1823.881 - 1825.626 Giorgio Locatelli

After I come back from Paris.

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1826.067 - 1826.167 Jessie Ware

Okay.

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1826.187 - 1838.903 Giorgio Locatelli

When I was in Paris, when I'm in Paris, I learned... When you were cooking in Paris. Yeah, I cooked in Paris for three years and I worked in these two restaurants. And in one of the restaurants, we used to do this gastric, which was like a reduction of sugar.

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1838.883 - 1859.507 Giorgio Locatelli

vinegar wine sometimes wine sometimes not but sometimes vinegar and we used to use this fantastic you know vinegar that come like there will be raspberry vinegar or things like that and they will make these really sweet things like that and i don't know i i'll come but one day when i was eating some some grilled scallops like that i thought about the flavor of the

1860.483 - 1863.087 Lennie Ware

There's only one fancier drop of wine, I know.

1863.107 - 1887.84 Giorgio Locatelli

Yeah, lovely. And I thought about the combination of the flavour. The flavour of saffron is very common to us, Northern Italian, because Italians always eat risotto with saffron. Yes. So it's a thing, you know, like... And then I don't know how I got it, and I tried, and I used the technique of the gastric, and I put it together, and it felt like, you know, this is British...

1887.82 - 1909.758 Giorgio Locatelli

There is no better scallops than scallops that come from Ireland or Scotland. They are the best scallops in the world. You don't get them anywhere else as big as they are and beautiful. And so the combination of my identity, what I learned in Paris and the produce that was British, I felt it was just such a good match.

1910.279 - 1917.433 Jessie Ware

Okay, so we've got the starter. Maine. Are you going to slip in a preemie? I feel like you're allowed because you're Italian.

Chapter 6: What is Giorgio's philosophy on the importance of resting meat?

3356.37 - 3363.58 Giorgio Locatelli

I could. You bought them and you just stuck them all in. I bought them. I thought, I'm not using them. I'm not using them tomorrow. Here they go today.

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3363.74 - 3366.724 Lennie Ware

How did you know? And they were £3.

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3369.648 - 3383.154 Lennie Ware

I'm not going to leave them in the bloody fridge and not eat them. Do you like football, Giorgio? I prefer motorbikes. Oh, OK. So who's the famous Italian? Oh, Fangio, obviously.

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3383.174 - 3386.861 Giorgio Locatelli

There's a guy called Valentino Rossi. Rossi?

3386.881 - 3388.445 Lennie Ware

Oh, my God, he was so handsome.

3388.585 - 3389.226 Giorgio Locatelli

Mm-hm.

3389.206 - 3396.699 Lennie Ware

Gorgeous. What was he? He was a motorbiker, yeah. But Valentino, such a great name. And he was handsome.

3397.14 - 3400.365 Giorgio Locatelli

Very, so handsome. And he was nine-time world champion.

Chapter 7: What memorable family meals does Giorgio recall from his childhood?

3480.179 - 3490.012 Jessie Ware

But thank you so much. Do it with Lenny. Oh, my God. You could be in that little one on the side. I'll get in the side car.

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3492.095 - 3498.143 Giorgio Locatelli

If I can move my hip to get in. After you have your hip, I think you can get on the back as well. Okay, I'll get on the back, yeah.

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3498.243 - 3501.868 Jessie Ware

I can't get my leg up at the moment, yeah. But thank you so, so much.

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3501.988 - 3506.754 Giorgio Locatelli

Well, thank you for inviting me for dinner. You're a legend. Chef never gets invited for dinner. No, I know.

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3507.175 - 3514.267 Jessie Ware

I know who I know. Raw meat. But thank you. Best of luck with MasterChef.

3514.287 - 3515.109 Giorgio Locatelli

Thank you very much.

3515.269 - 3517.113 Jessie Ware

Mum, that was so good. Such a pleasure.

3517.614 - 3522.844 Giorgio Locatelli

To open your house and let people in is always a very, you know, not many people does it. So thank you for that.

3522.864 - 3548.773 Jessie Ware

It's a great honour to be here. Oh, thank you. Giorgio Locatelli is suave, kind, cool. Handsome. Yeah, as you told his wife when they left.

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