I Was Determined That If I Failed

I Am Not The World's Most Confident Person.

I Was Born In The '60s And Grew Up In The '70s - Not Exactly The Best Decade For Food In British History. It Was Horrendous. It Was A Time When, As A Nation, We Excelled In Art And Music And Acting And Photography And Fashion - All Creative Skills... All Apart From Cooking.

You Think About Some Of The Most Memorable Meals You've Ever Had; The Food Will Be Good But It Will Often Be About Locating A Mental Memory And Taste Is Inexorably Linked To All The Other Senses And Memory, So Ultimately It Is All About Taste.

I've Got Around 400 Cookbooks.

A Lot Of Country Pubs Will Receive Michelin Stars.