with garlic and simple steamed rice. This is the perfect meal to share with all the family, young and old.How do you like to celebrate Chinese New Year? Usually dining with family, we indulged and ate expensive dishes such as duck, lobster, and always fish

AT THE OPENING soirée for the Covent Garden branch of his restaurant, affable Gallic chef Raymond Blanc was practically wiping a tear from his eye as he fondly reminisced coming to London as a young man, and visiting the famous Piazza and dreaming

Mark Hix, the much-lauded chef, owner of four restaurants, and father of Ellie and Lydia, 15, reveals some culinary secrets What’s your earliest food memory? My granddad used to grow tomatoes and we used to have those fresh from the garden

What was your favourite food as a child? My grandmother’s home-made ravioli served in a chicken broth.At what age did you start cooking? I started at around four, helping my Italian grandmother make the ravioli. My grandparents lived in a small village at the foothills of the mou...

Gillon Meller, chef at The River Cottage and father of Isla, 11, and Cecily, five, reveals foodie secrets:What’s your earliest food memory? The first time I ate white chocolate, probably aged three.What was the first thing you ever cooked? Something

Atul Kochhar, father of Amisha, six, and Arjun, four, reveals family secrets:    What’s your earliest food memory?Fruits are my favorite – have always been. Eating mangoes, sitting beside a deep cool well on a hot summer evening with my family in Jamshedpur, in east India where I...

Rachel Allen, author of Rachel's Favourite Food and mother of Josh, 10, Lucca, seven, and Scarlett Lily, one reveals her foodie secrets   What’s your earliest food memory? I do remember being taught to milk a cow when I was about five.What was the first thing you ever cooked? Bis...

What’s your earliest food memory? The breast of my mother. What foods did you like and dislike as a child? There were no foods that I can remember disliking. All my mother’s food was delicious. What did you eat for school dinners? My mother used to send me off with a packed lunc...

What’s your earliest food memory? Sunday roasts with my family – I’ve never seen a man eat as much as my grandfather – and crab sandwiches on the windswept Cornish coast are my fondest food memories.What foods did you like and dislike as a child? I ate anything as a child with th...

role model and I’m glad. Jamie’s the guy who’s done a great deal.What about Gordon, who’s a bit more lively?No, that’s jumping on the bandwagon of marketing. There are some serious chefs who I truly like, like Jamie and Delia Smith. There are a lot