The Life and Lessons of a Reluctant Chef
I’ve never come to terms with the idea that being a chef is worthy of any attention, let alone glamour. Television is to blame, its maddening love of kitchens and those who work in them infects television screens like an invasive bacteria, spitting out and feeding into a belief that being a chef is about [...]
The day is frigid with the banality of being post-Christmas and pre-New Year. The excitement of one day has passed and the excitement of the other has yet to come. It rains monotonously in a grey, cold drove that depresses the senses and serves as a reminder that the largely universal joviality of the season [...]
The head chef has already messaged me saying he is running late. That means he spent the previous night stoned and is in no condition to arrive at work on time. Sometimes it pays off to be one of the few chefs who isn’t rolling a joint in the kitchen after all is cleaned and [...]
The chicken has become the most politicised animal on earth. This is in no part down to just how many mouths there are to feed. Just think that in the eighteenth century the population of Britain almost doubled from 8.5 million to 16.5 million. Today there are a hell of a lot more of us [...]
