WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING? My grandfather first introduced me to the culinary world at a young age. I remember helping him prepare a number of dishes from mussels marinières to vegetable broths, where I would help him cut vegetables at the table in the conservatory – he... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING? I first moved out of home when I turned 21 and had to fend for myself. I gradually moved into eating healthier when I was juggling a day job and DJ-ing at night, which soon led to the opening of Slim’s Healthy Kitchen... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING? I first started out in food at a very young age, about six, because my grandad was a keen forager and grew a lot himself. I was there with him all the time and that’s where my love of food came from. My... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING? My mother was a cookery teacher and it was really important to her that all of us kids knew how to look after ourselves and cook independently, so she really sparked my love for cooking. Thanks to her, I was in the... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING? In secondary school, I studied home economics. In the 1980s, it was virtually unheard of for lads to take that subject but two mates of mine and I thought it would be a good laugh. Little did I know it would be the... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING? I was on my way to a large hotel in Cavan to be a waiter when a head chef from a local restaurant in Derry offered me a position as a commis chef in his kitchen, and so it began. After 20 odd... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING? My first job was in a kitchen washing dishes and doing general vegetable preparation and things like that when I was 11. That was in a local restaurant, the Buck’s Head in Dundrum, and then Alison Crothers started bringing me into the kitchen... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING, AND WHAT INSPIRED YOU? I started off at Ballymaclary House in Magilligan aged 14, washing lettuce and doing a bit of dishing. It was always something I knew I wanted to do. We had our own produce at home, as my father had... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING, AND WHAT INSPIRED YOU? I first got into cooking when I was 16, 17, and that’s a long time ago now. It was home cooking really from my parents, and getting into industry and I enjoyed it. I’d already been working in the... View Article
WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO COOKING, AND WHAT INSPIRED YOU? I have just always enjoyed cooking from a young age, and that continued when I studied home economics at Massereene Community College in Antrim. HAVE YOU ANY CULINARY QUALIFICATIONS? After Massereene, I went to Belfast Met when it was... View Article
