Rosie Birkett

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24 Apr 2014
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Rosie Birkett is a freelance food and travel writer and author of alotonherplate.com. Rosie’s debut cookbook Fresh: 100 Delicious Recipes From Market to Table, will be published by Hardie Grant in spring 2015.
Bite Sized Questions

What has been your mostmemorable dining experience?

Wow, this is a tough question, because since I started as a food writer in 2008 I’ve been so lucky with the incredible dining experiences I’ve had. Up there has to be sharing whelks with Pierre Koffmann in a fish restaurant by Rungis market; and eating oysters fresh from their beds on an island off the coast of Denmark – having waded for five kilometersup to my shoulders in the freezing sea. Also slurping opium tea from a tribal Prince’s hand in the Rajasthan dessert; and eating mealworms, crickets and bee larvae in the name of research.

Is there anything you wouldnevertry?

See above – clearly not!

What’s your favourite comfort food?

Toast and Marmite.

If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

That’s a horrible prospect. It would have to be a cracking roast dinner or a really great curry, because there are so many elements to both of those two meals making them harder to get bored with.

After a long week, what’s your tipple of choice?

Aperol spritz.

What are your three finer things in life that you secretly indulge in?

Nice wine (though I make no secret of that), black cabs and Mimi Holliday underwear.

Describe yourself in three foodie words…

Hungry, adventurous and greedy!