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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tim Lewis

Gregory Porter: ‘Christmas dinners at my house, it’s not 13 people. It’s 113’

Gregory Porter
Gregory Porter: ‘If this music thing ever slows down, I want to open a small restaurant.’
Grooming: Kelly Andrews
Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer

There’s a comforting, soothing aspect to both food and music. When I’m offering food to somebody to nourish them or when I’m offering music to nourish their spirit or their soul, I realise I’m doing the same thing.

I cooked super-early; I was cooking at six. We were cooking dangerous food, too. My first was french fries: hot grease, flame and a kid on a chair. Crazy, but yeah, we did it and it was fun.

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