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How cooking inspired Ed Sheeran’s new album

Sheeran delves into the influences that marked his new project 'Autumn Variations'.

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Tiktoker and private chef Meredith Hayden of Wishbone Kitchen shared a video titled ‘Autumn Variations, coming to a kitchen near you’ with Sheeran, in which they made tacos in their Brooklyn apartment. 

In the clip, the singer shared that the time in his kitchen became a great source of stimulation when composing his lyrics. ‘It was actually the kitchen that inspired me to do it,’ he revealed about the album’s influences, specifying that he used to share those culinary moments with his wife, with Norah Jones in the background.

Sheeran stepped in to ask the young chef what her favorite cooking playlist was. To which she replied, ‘It’s a bit embarrassing. It’s called jazz in a hotel lobby.’

The singer and Hayden’s ‘collaborative’ tacos also included Sheeran’s hot sauce, Tingly Ted’s, which they had just spiced up the cooking video with. An episode that adds to others that Sheeran has starred in with other friends; like last week, when he stopped by Courteney Cox‘s house to share his new Friends-inspired track with her.

‘We eat Chinese food in small white boxes/ We live the life we saw on Friends/ In your room you can barely fit the mattress/ You wake up, you go to work again/ The wind seems to blow right through us/ Down jackets are trending.’

When he finished, Cox asked, ‘Wait, was that really about the show Friends?’, Sheeran clarified and said the track was ‘inspired’ by the show, ‘cuz you eat Chinese food in small white boxes’.