Kevin Ashton is a chef and a member of the Guild of Food Writers who has worked around the world, cooking for many famous people. Recently his recipes and food articles have begun to appear in other countries.
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Aged 18, Steven Doherty began as an apprentice at the Savoy. He then moved to Le Gavroche as a Commis Chef and gradually worked his up to the role of Chef de Partie followed by a two year stage to the Alain Chapel’s restaurant in France before returning to become a Sous Chef for Albert Roux’s. Le Gavroche went on to gain three Michelin stars making Steven the first ever British head chef at a three Michelin-starred establishment.
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Thanks to his Mum encouraging him to bake cakes, Bryan Webb side-stepped a job down the mines - as a school-leaving Valleys boy at that time was expected to do - opting to become a chef instead. As luck would have it, his first job was with Sonia and Neville Blech at The Crown in Whitebrook, near Monmouth - the only Michelin starred restaurant in Wales.
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Gary Rhodes is one of Britain’s best-loved Michelin-starred chefs. He has restaurants in London, Dublin, Grenada and on board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean sea. He appears regularly on television, most recently in Hell’s Kitchen and Local Food Heroes, and is one of the stars in spandex on BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ this autumn.
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Matt Tebbutt is the chef behind the multi-award-winning Welsh restaurant The Foxhunter. Described as “comforting, seasonal, and very classy” Matt’s cooking has won The Foxhunter numerous awards including a True Taste Wales Food & Drink gold award, AA Restaurant of the Year for Wales award 2003, and the Saturday Telegraph’s Perfect Pub Award for Best Food 2007.
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Martin Burge was brought up in Bristol and originally trained at Brunel Technical College. Having emerged with distinctions his first job was under Michael Croft at the Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath. When Croft moved to London to run the kitchen at Mirabelle, 21 year old Burge went with him, before moving on to Pied a Terre under Richard Neat.
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