2024-06-13
38 分钟Ahead of Father's Day we welcome Garfield Hackett... To his own table! As Andi's partner and step-father to Miquita, Garfield has been - in the word's of his loved ones - "the thread that holds the family together, the backbone". Over a feast of soft pumpkin fungee, fried snapper, wild garlic oil and charred pardon peppers, they discuss first meeting in West London, being Andi's 'food muse', his bond with Miquita, the art of throwing parties, different interpretations of 'family', and why Andi pretended to like football when they met. An Offscript Production, and YaYa Productioun Produced by Tayo Popoola Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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So.
Today, quite unusually, the guest is Garth Garfield, who is my stepfather of 29 years.
Bloody hell.
I was 11 when he came into my life, and, you know, he's kind of the backbone of this family.
And because this family is so public facing me and Mum, you know, people know a lot about us and what we do, but they don't realize this really core part of our family that runs through it, which is my mom's partner of such a long time and the man who helped raise me and all my cousins.
So God was one of the most important people in my life after my mum.
And I was just telling you about the fact that it's been quite confusing because within the last three or four years, I've become really close to my biological dad, who I sort of like Garfield, sort of feels like my papa, and this guy's my father.
And I fell in love with him completely.
And he's absolutely wonderful.
And I've found out all these things about myself through him biologically, you know, genetically, but he has not been there through every part of my life like Garfield has.
And bar the first 10 years, and, you know, because it was my 40th, we've all come together this year, and I had a massive dinner that my dad and Garfield were at, and then we had a party a few days later that they were both at, and they just.
The love they showed each other.
It's been quite a big year for us and a very big year for me with dads and I suddenly, as a young kid who desperately wanted a father figure, I now have two.
I kind of want to shine a light on Garth and everything he does.
And also I had the best birthday party of my life, and that is Garfield.
He has a gift of bringing people together, and he's taught me how to do it, and he does it for everyone in our family, and that's why we have such good parties.
What I learned from when we did the Mother's Day special, just me and Mum, I really liked surprising her and asking her things that I truly don't know.
And I want to do the same with Garth today, and I'd like to ask him things that I truly want to know about him.