A podcast about food culture
Long Table
Conversations about who cooks, who eats, who clears up — and what that says about everyone at the table.
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Episode 48 · 5 Nov 2026
Who sets the table?
with Nermin Aydoğdu
0:00 / 52:40
Chapter 1/7Cold open: the empty chair
There’s always one chair at my aunt’s table nobody sits in. Nobody told me why until I was thirty.
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A cook and a historian who disagree about almost everything except the bread.
Defne Kaya
Host · cook and former line chef
Twelve years on the hot line in Istanbul and Lyon, now writes about the people who never get their name on the menu.
Theo Marsh
Host · food historian
Reads 19th-century cookbooks for fun and has strong opinions about who invented the meze plate (nobody).
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No studio. Two microphones, a pot on the stove and whatever the guest brought. If you hear a kettle in the background, that is the episode’s third host.
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