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Mark Bonito

Chef and co-founder of Vanlife Eats, a UK campervan cooking community and recipe platform, who travels and cooks full-time from his van.

Sep 14, 2026

25:03
Have you got a comment on kind of living life out through a public persona or through a lens? Do you do it, Marc?
25:09
I do.
25:09
I've got a very similar story, Matt, to be honest.
25:12
Um, 'cause I'm full-time in my van.
25:14
I live in my van.
25:15
I don't have another house to go to or anything.
25:18
And in 2020, I had a really bad time in COVID, and I was stupid.

20 MINS LATER

45:12
They will come and find you eventually.
16:35
Yes.
16:36
Gennaro Contaldo used to work with my grandfather.
16:38
My grandfather, um, used to be a chef.
16:40
So a lot of what Gennaro and Jamie Oliver originally cooked w- is, is authentic food, like what my family cook, in the same way.
16:49
We do the ragu in the same way.
16:50
We make our lasagnas in the same way.
16:53
No white sauce.
20:07
[laughs]

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