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

of Christmas as a child? Lots of chocolate.What was your best ever present? A racing bike. I fell off it on Christmas Day and scratched it – I was really cross.What was your typical Christmas dinner as a child? Classic roast turkey with prawn cocktail to start

.Your favourite recipe? It completely depends on my mood. It could be anything from roasted duck legs with lentils to chocolate fudge recipe. 

, because I think it’s what they’re so used to. But they always have an opinion on the food they eat – they are mini critics in the making. .There’s a real celebrity scene among chefs these days. Do you meet up often with fellow fathers, Gordon Ramsay

mother is Swiss and I've learnt a lot of yummy recipes from her and her mother too - there was one particularly amazing very moist chocolate almond birthday cake my mother would make. What's it like working in your childhood home? Our house is very homely

around. It takes two seconds to make a foe or friend of a child. They make their minds up so fast. When they come here I give them a big wink and say “I’m the best ice cream or chocolate cake maker. You wait and I will show you in the kitchen later

As the executive chef at the prestigious Gidleigh Park in Devon, director of Abode Hotels and Michael Caines Restaurants, MBE recipient, television chef, charity patron and father-of-two it would be quite fair to say that two Michelin-starred chef