Richard E. Grant: Simon Marchmont

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• [first lines] 

  Minty Marchmont : Hello. Welcome to Posh Nosh.

  Simon Marchmont : Hello.

  Minty Marchmont : Sunday evenings are very special to us. Come Sunday evenings we get to relax and just cook a simple dinner, and tonight we've got a rather special friend coming to dinner.

  Simon Marchmont : Supper. Not dinner; supper. Sunday evening's a time for supper.

  Minty Marchmont : Supper.

  Simon Marchmont : Supper is dinner with its shirt undone.

  Minty Marchmont : And we...

  Simon Marchmont : Supper is relaxed, it's languid,

  Minty Marchmont : Yes.

  Simon Marchmont : it's louche. Dinner is a middle manager from Leicester sucking up to Japanese clients. Supper is an Italian language student sunning himself on a lovely June evening in Hyde Park, stretched out on one of those picnic rugs.

  Minty Marchmont : Yes, all right.

  Simon Marchmont : Supper is leftovers.

  Minty Marchmont : And today we're going to show you how to *make* leftovers.

  Simon Marchmont : We're going to do leftover roast chicken with parsnip and watercress salad leftovers, with leftover wine and leftover bread.

• Simon Marchmont : [On the importance of choosing ingredients]  Always have a relationship with your meat.