‘Sunday evening? We’ll probably just pile into bed at 9.30 or 10 and read’: Róisín Murphy.‘Sunday evening? We’ll probably just pile into bed at 9.30 or 10 and read’: Róisín Murphy.I don’t partake in breakfast much. The kids have porridge on a school day, but help themselves to rubbish cereal at the weekend. I play tunes in the background, annoying the kids, because we don’t have the same taste in music.I grew up in Arklow in County Wicklow, in a house with no central heating.
My fella [music producer Sebastiano Properzi] is Italian, so we eat quite posh – veal Milanese, scallopini, pork roast with curled milk gravy. He’s a good cook, bless him. He’s good at a couple of things, if you know what I mean.My father was vehemently atheist and my mother couldn’t give a God’s curse, although I still went to a Catholic school.
The origins of the dishes are poor people food just thrown together from whatever was available. What some people pay a lot to eat in a posh restaurant, was often once all some could afford. As an Italian Chef I once worked for said “Poor people had their priorities right”
Yeah we have a pretty 'posh' Sunday lunch, a roast with all the trimmings but the rest of the week is meat and 3 veg, I guess that's our equivalent of pasta.