Kitchen: Kitchen Porter and Training I

kitchen: By 12 I wanted to be a chef and left school at 16 to start my training, according to The Guardian. I worked as a kitchen porter to fund myself through college. From the age of nine I was behind the bar sorting bottles and getting stuck in whenever I could in the kitchen. It was a summer job in a Blackpool hotel where orange juice was powdered and beef served grey that convinced me cooking was not for me. The spirit of conviviality in the front of house and the buzz in the kitchen when produce arrived engaged me crates of mushrooms with names I couldn't pronounce and wild strawberries so fresh the chef would change the menu to fit them in. Instead I started a catering management diploma, and got a placement working as a commis waiter and runner at the Box Tree restaurant in Ilkley which had two Michelin stars. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.