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MARK EARNDEN |
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THE CHEF |
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Entrepreneurial
Chef Mark Earnden is the presenter of a show called
Expo Chef, which helps promote healthy eating in the
community. Expo chef is an interactive cooking show
that demonstrates how to make food fun, easy and healthy
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Q:
Whom do you most admire for their achievements?
A:
Professionally Gordon Ramsay. In life Bono.
Q:
Who is your favourite chef?
A:
Keith Floyd.
Q:
With whom would you most like to have dinner?
A:
Bono
(naturally with my wonderful fiancée present!).
Q:
What would be your desert island disk?
A
: Losing my religion, REM or U2 - Greatest hits.
Q:
What is your favourite British food?
A
: Beef.
Q:
What is your favourite Italian food?
A
: A quality Risotto.
Q:
What is your favourite French food?
A:
Bouillabaisse.
Q:
What is your favourite World food?
A:
Curry.
Q:
What do you like most about your job?
A:
Convincing people to try new food for the first
time.
Q:
How would you describe eating in the UK to someone who's
never visited it?
A:
There is plenty of choice covering cuisine from
all corners of the globe, but watch out for the chain
restaurants and stick to the quality privately owned
restaurants, whose menus are smaller and offer locally
produced dishes.
Q:
Do you think food in the UK has changed for the better
since the days of Duck with Orange and huge helpings
of Black Forest Gateau?
A:
Yes, however food has become rarefied and confused
a little along the way.
Q:
What's the best thing about eating in the UK?
A:
Choice of local produce.
Q:
And the worst?
A:
Service!.
Q:
At what sort of place do you regularly go to eat?
A:
Indian or Italian.
Q:
Would you like to live and work somewhere other than
the UK and if so where and why?
A:
Australia or New Zealand . . . they practically
live life outdoors and although they work hard they
work to live!
Q:
What's your favourite food?
A:
Sunday dinner.
Q:
When did you first get involved in cooking?
A:
From the age of seven.
Q:
What sort of people have you cooked for during your
career. Most memorable or most forgettable?
A:
Cooking for Cherie Blair was memorable as it was the
first big name I had cooked for and she also took the
time to talk to me for a while. Disaster struck at a
dinner party when I was attempting a soufflé
in someone else's oven . . . when I turned up it was
an Aga and I had never used one before!.
Q:
Do you ever have regrets that you chose to become a
chef?
A:
None . . . and that is the same about life itself
. . . never have regrets.
Q:
What do you think you would have been if you had not
become a chef?
A:
Involved with sport.
Q:
What would be your advice to someone who is thinking
of training to be a chef?
A:
If you're not passionate about food don't start.
Q:
The career of one famous chef only came about because
his professional football career came to an early close
through injury, and one chef's plans to open a restaurant
never happened when he became football manager of Aberdeen
and later Manchester United. Has fate ever played a
part in your career?
A:
Absolutely, I had a one way ticket to Perth, Western
Australia, but I did not get on the flight. I then landed
a head chef job in France which is where I met my fiancée,
which brought me to the North East of England, which
is where Expo Chef was launched successfully. Things
happen for a reason!
Q:
What are your hobbies, spare time interests, what do
you do to relax?
A:
Circuit training, extreme sports, reading and fishing.
To
find out more about Mark
Earnden
visit www.celebritychefsuk.com
Email Hub-UK : info@hub-uk.com
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