Tom Kerridge, chef

Desert Island Discs

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4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tom Kerridge is a chef, restaurateur and TV presenter. Tom made his name with his Buckinghamshire pub The Hand and Flowers, which he opened with his wife in 2005. It is the only British pub with two Michelin stars. Tom grew up near Gloucester. After his parents divorced when he was 11, his mother took two jobs to support the family, and Tom was often left to cook for himself and his younger brother. As a teenager, he worked as a TV actor, playing small roles in dramas such as Miss Marple. He entered his first professional kitchen at 18, and immediately fell in love with the world he found, with its constant pressures and rushes of adrenalin. He studied at catering college at the same time. As well as now running his own pubs and a London restaurant, Tom has presented numerous TV series and is the author of five best-selling cookbooks. More recently, he made headlines with his weight loss. He shed twelve stone after deciding that he needed to change his life as he reached the age of 40. He is married to the sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge. BOOK CHOICE: White Heat by Marco Pierre White LUXURY: A Shaving Kit FAVOURITE TRACK: Proof by I Am Kloot Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Sarah Taylor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast.
0:08.6	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take
0:13.3	with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.6	This is an extended version of the original Radio 4 broadcast and for right reasons the
0:21.7	music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:24.6	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.3	Music
0:50.0	My cast away this week is the Chef Tom Kerridge, proud owner of three pubs, a catering
0:54.8	business, one London restaurant and a hat trick of Michelin stars.
0:58.3	He's the first chef to win a pair for his Marlowe pub, the Hand and Flowers,
1:01.9	as well as being a familiar face on Foudy TV.
1:05.1	He got an unlikely start in the kitchen, rustling up Findous Crispy Pancakes and beans on toast
1:09.8	for his little brother while his mother was at work, but it was walking into a hotel kitchen at
1:14.4	18 that changed everything.
1:16.4	He says, you fall in love with the people, the environment, the space, the guys in the kitchen
1:21.2	were very similar to the naughty kids I went to school with.
1:24.0	I was very lucky that I walked in somewhere and knew that would be my life.
1:28.3	Not bad going considering he was only there to do the washing up.
1:31.6	His kitchen door may bear the legend, danger do not enter, pirates with knives and fire,
1:36.3	but perhaps he's mellowing a little bit.
1:38.4	These days the culinary rock and roll excesses have gone on the back burner,
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