Having set up your chilidren’s cookery school La Petite Ecole at Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, you are clearly an exponent of children in the kitchen. What is your earliest memory of cooking?We lived the most cliché of French life where the table

Okay, so we know that learning to use a knife and fork properly can be sufficiently challenging for a young child, but there's something rather exciting – not to mention – authentic about using chopsticks, so give it a try!Here's a some tips for the dextrous and more patient amon...

than most, again, mentioning no names…).By midday, our cooking session was over and we departed with a very sugar-laden but lovely booty, as we wandered across Kensington Gardens to the Princess Diana Peter Pan playground for Joe to run off some

ever cooked? Egg fried rice, and it tasted pretty good if I say so myself.What's your food guilty pleasure? Crisps of all kinds. I do like a good packet of crisps.What would be your perfect family meal? Steamed fish with ginger, stir-fried greens

Sunday Roast TerrineServes a family of 4Ingredients4 Linda McCartney Veggie Burgers (or similar soya mince burgers), cooked as per instructions on pack and broken into pieces with a fork1 medium onion, chopped finely12 button mushrooms chopped

What would be your perfect family dinner? A selection of crudités with olives and dips followed by pan-fried seabass and leaf spinach, and then a lovely vanilla rice pudding to finish.What are the best recipes for weaning a baby? Freshly cooked

roast dinner, you structure your day around that. I love cooking for the family at home. There’s two types of cookery in our house: there’s my wife Jane’s cookery and there’s my cookery. My cookery is the same at home, as it is at work. So if I’m making

Battenberg-style cakes but she fondly named them footballers cakes for my brothers’ benefit and I thought they were totally her own creation. I was almost mesmerised by the chequered effect that the cakes made when they were cooked. Grandma would serve

wife, the boys and I then I tend to cook with no added salt or sugar. A sure-fire winner is grilled sole (with no added salt), nut brown butter, spinach and mashed potato. My wife loves fish with mashed potato and so do the boys. For dessert

to send me off with a packed lunch on the train. There was always fresh fruit. Do you have any cooking heroes? Pellegrino Artusi, the author of a famous Italian cookbook called La scienza In Cucina E L'arte Di Mangiare Bene (The Science of Cooking