Chef Profiles

tastebuds on October 10th, 2008
Welsh chef Bryan Webbs

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 a naive sixteen-year-old, I thought cooking would be an easier option,” he recalls ruefully.

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tastebuds on September 24th, 2008
Gary Rhodes, © Penguin

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

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tastebuds on September 15th, 2008
Celebrity chef Matt Tebut

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 [...]

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tastebuds on September 11th, 2008
Martin Burge, Head Chef at Whatley Manor

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 [...]

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