Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part One)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with Bacoff Judge, Michelin starred restaurateur and author Prue Leif. Lise joined us at the Royal Geographical Society in London to discuss how to live fully and age well. Drawing on her new memoir, Being Old, and Learning to Love It,
She shares insights on aging, love, resilience, and the importance of facing life's final chapter with honesty and grace. From strutting the catwalk and finding love again in her seventies to facing life's hardest goodbyes with humour and grace, Leith reflects on a life shaped by success, loss, and reinvention. Let's join our host, Mariella Frostrop, live at the Royal Geographical Society. Good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for coming.
I'm incredibly excited to be here to have a conversation with Dame Prue Leith, who over the last 60 years has scaled the dizzy pinnacle of the British food scene and then moved on. I'm afraid to say it and she'll probably kill me. to the enviable status of national treasure, not least down to her presence as perhaps the nation's favorite and most well-known judge on the TV program, the great British Bake-off, a position that she recently vacated. I use the word retirement with great trepidation in her company, in order to pursue new and varied challenges. In her long career, she's seen huge success as a Michelin restauranteur, founder of the renowned Leith School of Food and Wine, TV cook, food journalist, author, having birthed, I think, 25 books to date.
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