anthony: hidden away safely behind the walls of a former victorian-era schoolhouse, insulated from the moronic inferno blazing outside, is rochelle canteen. a green idol. the unpretentious brainchild of margot henderson and her business partner, melanie arnold. how long have you been up and running here? margot: ten years. anthony: oh my god. margot: ten years, where have you been? anthony: i can t believe i know, what is wrong with me? you were a chef before fergus, yes? margot: yeah, well i started cooking in restaurants when i was 12. anthony: yeah. margot: but this is fergus, peas in their pods. we met when i was working at the eagle and i said straight away to him we should open a restaurant together and he said, well, that s a good idea, but let s be lovers as well. which i always thought was quite good. and then we had a restaurant. the whole area has changed around here. it s very shoreditch, groovy guys on little motorbikes with e handle bars. anthony: wh
out in rolling stone and i think it was the artwork first that spoke to me in a really, transformative way. it captured perfectly all of my rage all, of the absurdity, all of these things that i didn t responng to in the same way.g or it was unlike anything i ve seen. anthony: artist, author, icon ralph steadman continues to make art every day. he was the visual expression of dr. hunter s. thompson s finest works. ralph steadman: when hunter came here in 1991-2, i brought him down to a pub here. oh, martin, this is hunter. hello. anthony: here would be ralph s local, the chequers inn in kent. ralph steadman: hunter would be like, uh, choose what you will, please. so, i d say, okay, martin, uh, could you make, perhaps, make that a double. well, these optics, you know, they haven t got nothing in them. anthony: yeah, they re little chiclet-sized, yeah. ralph steadman: so, we did