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

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

Platinum “clean your own” pop-up restaurant?I’m very excited about it, it's happening on November 18-19 at the OXO Tower, the whole idea is to get across two messages: The liquid takes away an overnight soak in ten minutes and the dishwashing tablet which

, which would you be and why? I would be a marble pop, I have always loved the look of marbles. How many can you eat in one sitting? At the beginning I could eat about three in a sitting – making 200 of these a day for the last nine months has decreased

arrived in England and found out how huge Christmas is. As a child, my family didn’t celebrate Christmas, although as Algeria is a former French colony, we had holidays from school. 

Sauerkraut is what we usually eat on Christmas Day. We spend

, 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

and lots of food. My grandfather had a farm and grew lots of fruit trees, spices and herbs.I was sous chef for my grandmother. She sent me out to collect stuff from the garden. I’d dig deep for the yams and pick green bananas from the trees. The doctor bird

meal together, you are creating a closer society. A closer family first then a closer society.ResourcesLa Petite Ecole children’s cookery school runs one-day non-residential courses between August 14–17 and costs £195 per child. For details, tel: 01844