Polly Markus started posting her home cooking adventures on the Instagram account @miss_pollys_kitchen during lockdown last year, and has now amassed over 18,000 hungry followers. She joins Simon and Alice in the studio (and Sophie on the phone on her way back from the Foodstuffs Expo in Hamilton) to talk about the joys of home cooking, kitchen disasters and whether or not she’s ever had gout.

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