How are you?

I thought I'd bring you to another very noisy busy street in East London for this one.

So you're welcome.

Essentially, I'm here to tell you that I love entertaining, but I actually can't cook.

So this time I've enlisted the help of someone wonderful season author.

She's television presenter.

She's the queen of supper clubs.

It's Laura Jackson on.

I basically want her to impart all of her knowledge about putting together a supper club or a dinner party or whatever you wanna call it, and that way I could learn how to do it.

So today is very much about preplanning, So I'm gonna go meet her in mind, staining space the pub and then eventually will graduate towards the home.

Laura, thank you so much for doing this with me.

I thought you'd be the perfect person to help, because you have years and years of experience of being the supper queen.

Essentially, yes, the whole point of a simple club is that it isn't a restaurant experience, so it's more personal.

It's more bespoke, and it's usually at somebody's house or in an interesting venue that you wouldn't ordinarily get.

Theo will you've been very kind and offering your home for us to do this in, which is really nice.

And I'll explain that my house is tiny and I think you can only fit about four people in my kitchen.

It has been true in the past in New York when I lived there.

There's so little space in Manhattan in a couple of people.

I know we're keeping a close in the oven.

You don't really switch it on, and I can't say that happened.

Grown out of that, my culinary prowess extends as far as a soup.

A pastor on a salad at the same time.

Often it will be at the same time, maybe a soupy pastor.

Great Home Minister Tony.

Exactly.

See, this is why they pay you the big boast.

How many people do you wanna have it at your house?

20.

I can't.

No way.

We need to make no.

Okay, let's get the first step.

Make note.

What's the plan for this afternoon?

Proceeding The actual supper itself.

Flowers?

Yeah.

Then we'll go to the fabric shop.

We need to get some linen for the tables on to make some napkins that you can choose.

I'm gonna make I'm gonna make a tablecloth.

It's really easy.

Can you?

What?

I have to sew it.

No, no, no.

We're just gonna cut it, okay?

It's gonna look good, okay?

I'm all about cheese.

I'm like Delia.

Okay?

Is Delia cheat?

She uses counsel.

She uses pounds of food.

She does go on, and then we're gonna go to the vegetable and get the fruit.

Veg.

How many people who want this?

You 10 10.

Okay, Yeah.

Okay.

What kind of thing do you like to cook apart from Minister earning?

Well, I could I don't know what I like to cook, but I could tell you what I might like to eat.

Okay, if I were to attend someone else's.

Okay.

Dinner?

Um, I think something that's No, it's winter.

Is there something that's quite cozy on Dhe?

Makes you feel like looked after?

Yes.

Do you like Italian food?

I love Italian food.

Yeah.

Do you know mal fatty?

Which is the ricotta dumplings?

Yeah.

Okay.

And then there's a pink lettuce called Castle Franken, which is out of the moment, which you'll love.

It's like that is out of the booth.

It's like a pink ridicu on.

We could make that into a winning I saw lawfully.

Okay, I'm pretty yet.

That's the thing.

You want things that really easy.

Look pretty look like you spent ages doing it, but you haven't.

Is it nice?

Have a cheese board.

Maybe a love it.

We love a cheese lover Cheese.

But what's your favorite cheese?

Anything creamy.

I'm five, Dad.

Really dare really love a time and string cheese?

Yeah.

Really Know that, Stilton?

Yeah, that's fine.

Okay, OK, we forget Stilton and some grapes.

Okay, So so far, we're going to do like a Christina, maybe a cal cotton romesco than a mall fatty with a castle front salad.

Yeah, chocolate moves.

Cheese board.

Lovely.

Okay.

And then we should think about what kind of stuff.

Were you still on the table?

Okay.

Like I'm thinking me naked down the middle of a great with the cheese board on me.

Ella Watson in Texas City Crocus.

Yeah, lovely.

Maybe you could bring something for the crackers that you want to give your guests.

What, weirdly enough, I I like symbols.

Small compass is a tiny corkscrew in a miniature whisk.

Sound good, big Ray.

Maybe some cute little lavender bags.

That's nice with you included in the 10 people.

That's nine guests.

Who are you?

Nine people coming?

So what's what's your advice for the perfect balance of, like, chemistry?

So maybe half people that you really know very well on half of people that I'd like to know better.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, my close personal friend Obama, uh, slash from guns.

Nroses course.

Dolly Parton?

Yeah.

Do you think Charlotte Rampling might be a bit scary?

I reckon she's a vegan.

This'd dietary situation is really difficult when you're doing thes may have Michael Eavis.

Yes, of course.

Why don't we give everybody a plus one?

Yeah.

Okay.

Here's your basket.

The shopping Think fruit veg in that Great right.

Let's go.

Do you take me to a flower shop?

Yes.

Persons first for the table escape.

Yes.

So what would you recommend?

Well, I think anything with color is nice.

And I guess it's more wintry.

So kind of ethical as you said that you liked over J and so on Oprah, She Nicola could be Percy.

Yes, we're putting them in in bosses.

Yes, we can.

We can either put them in stem vases and have, like, little stemmed glasses on the table on this, Like a florist trick called a frog is kind of a bit like a flat plate with little little spiky bits and put the stem into the frog.

And then it makes it look like you've done a flower arrangement.

That great you haven't.

Why is it good for ouch?

I'm not sure, because it's got loads of rivets.

Rivets?

Yeah, Well, Ugo, these guys that nice I feel like that's quite you.

Yeah, they're pretty.

What about the?

This is a nice color.

Beautiful.

So, do you consider the entire static?

Is it in the party before you even jump in?

Yeah, I think I probably spend more time on doing like the table stuff than I do the food.

That's nice.

Eucalyptus.

So what it is, they can keep their nose.

You did?

What you doing?

Anything too powerful on table, like a scented candle would be No.

Right.

Oh, I love that.

How can I get you get you get loads of that.

Okay.

Happy.

You are thrilled.

So, vegetables, I see some radishes.

Yes.

This is what we need.

Hang on.

let me get my book out for I always forget you wanna put them in your in your basket?

Yeah.

Okay.

I know what the game is here.

This is when to look chic.

But in reality, there is how French people do it.

I always find most things that I need in the bed shop.

And I always buy extra because I always think how that looks really nice money to buy that.

But then anything special are probably order it online.

That's nice.

The video?

Yes.

Let's get one of those.

I see things.

Listen, I think how good would that be On the table.

Okay.

How nice is that, love?

What about some of these for the table?

Put ribbons around them.

Really nice.

Okay, let's just get you.

What does it boil them and actually eat them?

Yes.

You think Dolly Parton would like a more Obama?

Yeah.

D'oh.

Do you take a seasonal approach to your supper clubs?

Yeah, I guess I do.

I think coming to the fruit and veg drop our kind of wrapped like write a loose menu like we've got on then I'll always be inspired by what's in season.

So I obviously in Samaria more salad kind of stuff and cook for after and things like that.

And then in the winter, it's more about, you know, Jerusalem, artichokes and the machines.

But you can see what's in season by coming to you from the bedroom.

You don't have to think about it too much.

So we've got our friend vegetables.

We're getting out the specialist things either online or in other places.

Yes.

Where you gonna take me?

Next to the fabric shop is so amazing.

And a lover.

We need to get a table cloth and some napkins, but we're gonna make the napkins from the same fabric of the tablecloth.

Very nice.

I've never thought of doing that.

Yeah, This is amazing.

It's good, isn't it?

I had no idea this existed.

I live quite close to here on dhe.

It's kind of annoying.

I'm annoyed to find this out late in the day.

There's loads of kind of fabric mills all over the world.

You just need to google them and find them.

Basically.

That's nice.

I like that.

Oh, look out.

Nice.

That might be I think that's lovely.

Okay, you take the Brown.

I'll get the line.

Can you carry that?

Yeah, I'm sorry.

So Okay, we're gonna good it.

Yeah.

And then just afraid the edge is lovely.

And we can I Neer into a pattern well, into, like, a napkin shape.

So my table is one meter by three meters.

Yeah.

So I'm gonna get four meters to cover the edges.

Yes, two of those.

And then we need some for napkins.

So I would normally do six napkins in a meter.

Okay, so let's get three meters, just in case we make any mistake, then they can take him home.

Okay, Next up, a club.

I just acted like I knew you were saying, like, barely count, so that sounds great.

Thank you so much.

That's gonna be really pretty.

Also, it's more like my vibe, which is like a bit boyish, but also sometimes ultra fem.

Is it too much if we have a like with glittery element?

No.

My eyeball key has been going to that silver sequin stuff.

Okay, He's here.

Yeah, Just going investigator.