Alongside doing your job, suddenly you have a whole family to run — and that definitely still falls on the woman. I cycle around London a lot — it's important to me to stay fit and have time to process my thoughts.
Part of that comes from feeling like I wasted a whole decade of my life, aged , drifting and not knowing what to do. As a food writer, I want to try and persuade people to pick up a wooden spoon more often and to eat more healthily.
In the UK, we eat more processed food than any other country in Europe. I get so much joy out of stirring a pot of slow-cooked onions waiting for them to turn silky, sweet and golden, and sitting around the dinner table with friends and family. For me, that's pure pleasure. Can creating a relentlessly positive culture actually be toxic?
Is the 'tyranny of niceness' undermining Meanwhile, my grandmother, who was a model, ate cream and butter with everything, but walked for an hour a day and loved her calisthenics exercises — which made me feel less guilty about eating a bit of what I fancied. When I decided that my career lay in cooking, I was forced to confront those tricky issues.
Food should always be a source of pleasure. I do my best to encourage that attitude in my three young daughters. After being made an OBE [for services to the food industry] at Buckingham Palace, we went out for a posh lunch, and my eldest daughter ate an entire bowl of spring greens.
It was my proudest moment of the day. If we all go vegetarian once a week and eat higher-quality meat such as organic when we do, we can have a positive impact on climate change through our eating habits.
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He lives in Hackney, London, with his wife and daughter. I was briefly introduced to Thomasina at a party in London, in , after she had won MasterChef.
She is an old friend of my cousin's, so I'd heard a lot about her, and people had often said, "You would get on great with Tommi. I received a few invitations from her to go to various events but I didn't engage with her until I really needed a chef for my first Feeding the feast, in I was touched and delighted when she said yes: she was well known by then — and she'd started Wahaca — so I felt she brought a lot more legitimacy to the campaign than I did.
I remember standing with her in a freezing-cold, empty, Trafalgar Square on the day of the event, Tommi brimming with enthusiasm, and I realised that this was someone I would get on with very well.
Tommi did a cooking demo on the main stage; she explained how to use the whole carcass of a chicken. It was brilliant. We didn't just pull off a fantastic event, we became friends. Though because of how we met, our conversations when we go out for lunch or see one another out, have always been about serious issues. Our friendship was truly secured, though, when she gave me the Wahaca Gold Card — I could bring up to three friends along to eat there for free.
All I had to do was tell her what I thought.
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