{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e441f14c1617af6101e395d/643d10b2672f9f001199a1d2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Andi Oliver: The Pepperpot Diaries","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e441f14c1617af6101e395d/1668588297141-19cb6c616479967805ead882c16c19e3.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week Gilly is with chef, TV presenter and now, finally author, <a href=\"https://www.independenttalent.com/corporate/andi-oliver/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Andi Oliver</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>She’s one of the most successful black women on British TV, a respected pundit on Caribbean cooking on Radio 4’s <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01klvhq\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Kitchen Cabinet</a> and rocking it in the best frocks on the telly in the <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071y6r\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Great British Menu</a>. And after her return to her ancestral home of Antigua with her daughter Miquita for the <a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013x63\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BBC</a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;she’s rethinking her connection with who she is. Her mix of musings and recipes from her trip though the Caribbean are captured in her first book, <a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-pepperpot-diaries/andi-oliver/2928377170233\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Pepperpot Diaries</a>, a stirring together of her stories and complex layers of identity.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And as she and Gilly contemplate what it means to be 60, she tells us what it’s felt like waiting to exhale. </p>","author_name":"Gilly Smith"}