How did you start cooking? “I’m from Kent [in southern England], and when I was 11 years old, one of my dad’s best friends was a chef in Confolens, in central France. Whenever we went there for holidays I helped him peel onions and carrots. He used to host dinner parties and he would say, ‘This is my little protégé,’ and the guests would all clap and I thought, ‘This is quite nice, I only chopped the carrots.’“My mum isn’t a good cook, she just cooked for the family because we needed to eat…
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