Three Food Memories

🐔 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 Fan Mail To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.com Insta - @savvasavas @threefoodmem...

🎁🎁 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 Fan Mail To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.com Insta - @savvasavas @threefoodmemories Email us at threefoodm...

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄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 pistachio granita on Lipari, e...

***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 laugh at his every day. So much so that he’s carved...

“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 too - but when he was a kid, he loved...

“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 as an adult she wrote just one.   Unlike those of...

“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 food journey at Watson’s Bay with her father as a...

" 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; her childhood dreams of wanting to be an...

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 , and their hilarious first-ever encounter on The...

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 her passion for food, which is beautifully high...

“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: there is also discussion about the origins of...

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 Blaise’s death, and how goal-setting and plenty...

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 Days - for more details head to @threefoodmemorie...

**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 in Greek too. Chris Bath has been in t...

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. Music runs in the family, she’s the niece of mus...

In this episode of Three Food Memories you’ll meet the snazzy, jazzy creator of social media hit sensations; Boomer Dad, drag queen Satty Faction, 80s mum, Dion the policeman, and 90s intermediate school kid. He’s also the writer, director and lead star in horror movie Loop Track , as well as the writer and creator (and ALL the character voices) in the comedy crime podcast Small Town Scandal.  As...

For comedian Geraldine Hickey , meal times were very Aussie. Dinners were spent sitting in a line with her five siblings along a long kitchen bench, with Mum on a stepping stool on the other side. The meals were simple fare, meat and three veg and spaghetti bolognese made with canned tomato soup and onion soup mix. And although they might have been plain, they were delicious. Almost as delicious a...

It’s a long ‘un but a good ‘un!  In this episode of Three Food Memories, you’ll meet one of the world’s most distinctive artists and illustrators.  You may not know his name, but you’ll most certainly recognise his style.  Robert Risko ’s artistic journey started at age 10, when he entered a drawing competition at a local department store. His easter bunny winning him first place, and a shiny new...

Mohsin Zaidi is the author of the prize-winning coming-of-age memoir, A Dutiful Boy.  Growing up in a religious household in a poor suburb of London, as a teenager Mohsin had a life-changing moment: watching two men kiss on TV.  This screen snog set the stage for Mohsin to see himself for who he was. These days we find Mohsin content and happy at the table of his life, but the struggle between now...

In this live episode of Three Food Memories thanks to our friends at VBO Australia , Savva chats with the coolest of cats Yasmine Ghoniem , director and founder of multi-award-winning interior design studio YSG .  A childhood jet setter, Yasmine is a human visual-verbal of her heritage (for those not in the art space, read: mood board). The child of an Australian mother and Egyptian father, her fo...

That's it for season four of Three Food Memories. Savva's off to take a short break and catch some sun before returning for season five. You'll hear from designer Yasmine Ghoniem, Vanity Fair's Robert Risko, author and lawyer Mohsin Zaidi, and legendary newsreader Chris Bath.  In the meantime don’t forget to check out the back episodes. Get cooking with Stephanie Alexander, Nat...

Welcome to the very first ever, TFM art art-show… This episode was recorded at Saint Cloche Gallery in Paddington thanks to the wonderful Kitty Clark , where artists Evi O , Toni Clarke , and Daimon Downey shared their art alongside their food memories in front of a live audience. Oxtail Ragu, Rocket Pasta, and Rice Pudding were on the menu, as were plenty of laughs and insights into the minds and...

Bianka Ismailovski is a force to be reckoned with. At the age of 34 she’s got the introspection of a 74 year old. But don’t let that put you off…or the fact that she’s been sober for 5 years either.  Bianka’s newly discovered independence after divorcing at the age of 30 came with a free set of steak knives - in the form of a self-awakening; about body image, sexuality, and uncovering pleasure. Al...

Daniel Principe is a youth advocate and consent educator. Daniel has spoken to more than 55,000 students at more than 250 schools around Australia about creating spaces to champion boys into becoming good men.  The saying “boys will be boys”, can be traced back to ancient Roman times. Essentially society has been saying some form of this for at least 2,500 years. This dated idiom is working agains...

“ I like to make paintings to give people pleasure.” Just as the late Bill Granger exported Australian food culture to the world, Ken Done ’s bold and colourful brush strokes spread the essence of Australia and Australians; creative, optimistic and bold. There’s a bit of Ken Done iconography in every Australian home, if not our psyche. In this episode of Three Food Memories , Savva sits with Ken a...