Claire Richards on Tour Riders & the Fish Pie That Nearly Ended Her
Recorded live at the Good Food Show, Samuel Goldsmith sits down with pop star and Steps member Claire Richards.
Claire reveals the origin of her legendary Pasta a la Claire — born on a 1990s Steps VHS and originally made with packet ham and a tin of tomato soup — and how she's since given it a grown-up makeover. She talks growing up on her mum's "mince-based" cooking outside London, teaching herself Thai curry after her honeymoon, and the four-hour ragù she perfected after a trip to Bologna.
There's life on the road too: dodgy service-station sandwiches and Ribena in the 90s, why she now asks…
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