Jason Atherton: Michelin starred chef and restaurateur
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Jason Atherton
Jason started cooking at a very young age in the seaside hotel run by his family. At 16 he ran away to London and got a job at a Michelin-starred restaurant -- all while living in a youth hostel.
After years of working under esteemed chefs such as Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis, Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay, he began building his own global restaurant empire just seven years ago. First in London with the award winning Pollen Street Social and now in Hong Kong, Shanghai, The Phillippines, Dubai, Sydney and New York. He has 17 restaurants so far and counting.
He has been described as a world class culinary alchemist and Marco Pierre Whie is on the record having said of Jason:
“Jason is a realist not a fantasist. He has turned his dreams into reality”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island dishes. |
| 0:14.1 | These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, |
| 0:18.8 | the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last |
| 0:22.8 | dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the Desert Island. I hope you're all well |
| 0:28.3 | and that you've had a lovely week. If you haven't yet left a five-star rating on iTunes, |
| 0:33.2 | now is your moment. And your good deed for the week could be recommending Desert Island Dishes |
| 0:38.2 | to your friends and colleagues. I love bringing it to you every week and your reviews really do |
| 0:44.0 | make the world of difference. So thank you. Having talked about it for a while now, I've been |
| 0:49.8 | beavering away on my newsletter so you won't want to miss it. Head to desert islanddishes.com and you can |
| 0:57.6 | sign up there. Come and join the gang, and I promise to try and make something that you actually look |
| 1:03.4 | forwards to getting in your inbox, however sporadically. So I actually recorded today's |
| 1:09.5 | episode with Jason way back before Christmas, very unlike me to |
| 1:14.1 | record that far ahead. But it was amazing to be able to sit down with a chef like Jason. And I hope |
| 1:20.2 | you enjoy. Without further ado, here is today's episode. |
| 1:27.6 | My guest today is Jason Atherton. |
| 1:31.3 | Jason started cooking at a very young age in the seaside hotel run by his family. |
| 1:36.8 | At 16, he ran away to London and got a job at a Michelin-starred restaurant, all while living |
| 1:42.2 | in a youth hostel. |
| 1:43.7 | After years of working under a steam |
| 1:46.1 | chef such as Pierre Kaufman, Nicola Dennis, Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsey, he began building |
| 1:52.6 | his own global restaurant empire just seven years ago. First in London with the award-winning |
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