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The things you find out when you ask people about their food memories can be soulful, spicy, sensational, sour, and often sublime. Often you'll discover something you never knew about the person you asked - and this is what the Three Food Memories podcast is about, how every food memory is linked to a moment in time. Three Food Memories is hosted by Savva Savas, dad of twin boys, entrepreneur, caterer, and creator. In each episode Savva chats with a guest who shares three food memories and a ...
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In this special episode for comedy week, we head to the US of A to meet with comedian and surfer Ellen Harrold. Ellen grew up on the beaches near Atlantic City and has surfed for most of her life. After finishing high school, and inspired by the movie Call Me By Your Name (hello Timothée Chalamet!) she flew off to au pair in Italy for three summers…
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🥬On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Karen Martini 🍸 On the menu; broad beans, grandmother’s fish and fennel soup, and cheesecake biscuit turnover. Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! That's it for the 12 days of Christmas - hope you've had fun. Season 7 is back early February 2025, kicki…
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🍾On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Kathy Lette 📖 On the menu; lobster omelette, mum’s weekend cupcakes, and Chiko rolls. Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.com Insta - @savvasavas @threefoodmemorie…
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🔬On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Doctor Karl 🫛 On the menu; fish with no bones, squat food in Glebe, and coffee from Abdul’s. Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.com Insta - @savvasavas @threefoodmem…
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🧀On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Alice Zaslavsky 👓 On the menu; packet macaroni cheese, Georgian rissoles, and Basque cheesecake. Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.com Insta - @savvasavas @threefoo…
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🎆🎆🎆HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🎆🎆🎆 (how's the hang-over?!?) 🦞On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Gina Chick 🍏 On the menu; Egg sandwiches (washed down with Tang), food at the cousins' farm in Bathurst, and fresh crayfish on Haggerstone Island Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To fin…
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🍗On the Seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Yasmine Ghoniem On the menu; Ugali in Kenya, Molokaia in Egypt, and barbequed chicken in Kuwait 🌆 Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.com Insta - @savvasavas @three…
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🎸On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Nat's What I Reckon🫙 On the menu; quarantine pasta sauce, beef lasagne with Michael Bolton, and all-you-can-drink Sustagen poppers. Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemorie…
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📺On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - Chris Bath On the menu is; Mum’s tinned salmon curry, pastizzis and Jenny’s mum’s Maltese food, prawn and bean curd cheung fun at Yauatcha in London 🥟 Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head …
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🐦 On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me - Stephanie Alexander (bite-sized) 👩🍳
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On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me - Stephanie Alexander On the menu is a feast of reminiscence; Nouvelle Cuisine, daily life in the kitchen, winning “A Feast of Pheasant” competition, the final night of Stephanie’s restaurant, and Stephanie's love of the kitchen above all. Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell you…
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🐔 On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me Benjamin Law ⚖️ On the menu is salted plums, yum cha, and ginger-laced Christmas pavlova (but make sure you skip the lactose in the cream!) Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefood…
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🎁🎁 It's Boxing Day! (What does that even mean?) On Sean's menu is sliced banana on cereal, wild rocket salad, and fresh mud crabs, watch out for the claws! Like this? Listen back to the full episode and tell your friends about us! Send us a text To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.com Insta - @savvasavas @threef…
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🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 If you need a few minutes to yourself, listening to people talk about food while you eat food - here you go...alternatively you can listen while at the Christmas table with everyone else - it'll sure be a break from Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer! On Natalie's menu is Nonna’s pasta, Mum’s Christmas pavlova, and p…
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***some areas of this conversation may be NSFW (depending on what you do for work…) or for kiddy ears, so we suggest you listen solo, or with headphones on tight like a tiger*** “I’ve never been in a relationship, never wanted to be.” In this episode of Three Food Memories, we head to Brisvegas to meet a man who has a knack for making the world lau…
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“Because you've come from an institution where you're meant to put yourself last, to ask for help is seen as a bit of a failure” In this episode you’ll meet Special Forces Veteran Heston Russell. Heston grew up in suburban Brisbane as the middle child, with a Dad who was in the army, and an aerobics instructor mum. Like his Dad, he joined the army …
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“As people we are all capable of so much more than we imagine ourselves to be” - Katherine Bennell-Pegg In this episode you meet Australia’s first ever astronaut. Katherine Bennell-Pegg grew up looking at the stars in her suburban Sydney backyard, and by early high school when asked by a teacher to write down three professions she’d like to pursue …
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“I mean the media is a tough ground. People swear, including me.” This extraordinary episode of Three Food Memories celebrates media doyenne, Ita Buttrose AC, OBE. Recorded at The Neilson auditorium at the Australian Chamber Orchestra for Savva’s 50th birthday party, Ita shares incredible insights from her trail-blazing eight decades. We start the …
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"I was living the goth life. I still begrudge my parents for not letting me have a pet rat" - Karen Martini In this live episode recording of Three Food Memories thanks to our friends at Poliform Australia - sit down with chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Karen Martini (whose middle name is NOT Louise). Share the memories as she tells all; he…
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As I’ve always said throughout my life “nothing good comes from being comfortable” - DJ Fat Tony. Get your boogie on with DJ and author Fat Tony in this episode of Three Food Memories where he chats about life, music, addiction and survival, friendship and fights with Boy George, finding the superpower in ADHD, his love for fiancé Stavros Agapiou, …
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In this episode of Three Food Memories you’ll meet Walkley-Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and shared plate finger wiper Virginia Trioli. Whether you’re watching, listening, or reading her work, Virginia exudes a familiarity that makes you feel like you’ve been invited to sit at her table and break bread. This connection makes sense - given …
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“I regard flirtation as the lubricant that allows the world to spin on its axis.” So says Tom Read Wilson, in this episode of Three Food Memories. Tom reminisces about toothsome food memories including; being fed fiery chillis as a toddler by his Thai godmother, Granny’s Tarte Tatin, Daddy’s Packawallop curries, and Mummy’s Sunday lunch. A warning:…
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Our guest on this Three Food Memories episode is a natural phenomenon with two bare feet firmly planted on the ground. Gina Chick took Australia and the world by storm on Alone Australia: Season 1. Hear Gina chat about her rambunctious childhood hanging with sisters and cousins, the blessing of her daughter Blaise, how she embraced grief following …
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Alice Zaslavsky is back to share an extra special memory served to her by international cookbook legend Claudia Roden, why eating salad for breakfast is the way to a better day, and a surprise with the details of her brand new telly show A Bite to Eat which you can catch from late October. To celebrate, we’re giving away three books of Salad for Da…
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**A Greek and English swear warning in this episode*** If you’ve watched or listened to Australian prime-time news any time in the last 30 years, it’s likely you’ll recognise the face and voice of our guest in this episode of Three Food Memories. And if you’ve watched social media at any time in your life, it's likely you'll have heard her swearing…
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In this episode of Three Food Memories we’re graced with a voice that is nothing short of sublime - it is as beautiful as it is haunting, and resonant with the echoes of a thousand ancestral stories. Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, is a luminous star in the constellation of classical music — an opera singer, composer, artistic director, and professor…
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