Dirty Linen - A Food Podcast with Dani Valent
by A Deep in the Weeds Production · 1,000 episodes
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Dirty Linen goes behind the scenes in restaurants, cafes and bars, covering issues the hospitality industry finds hard to share in public - it's all up for grabs and everything is on the table. Your host is food journalist Dani Valent. For 20 years, Dani has been writing about restaurants and the people who give them life. But she's an outsider, a critic, a tourist, a fan. Despite hearing the stories and writing the tales, she's never really understood what happens behind the scenes. Now it's time to get stuck in, with compassion, humour and fearlessness. Dirty Linen goes deep, both...
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34 min
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38 min
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35 min
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31 min
Kellie Ashton (Pure Catering, Brisbane) - Is it ever not crunch time in hospitality?
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41 min
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37 min
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41 min
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41 min
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36 min
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