Paul Merrett is chef-patron at The Victoria and father of Ellie, 15, and Richie, 13What is your earliest food memory? Sunday roasts at my grandparents’ house. My granny was a really great cook.What foods did you like as a child? I was never a fussy

Claude Bosi is Chef-proprietor of Hibiscus and father of Paige, sevenWhat is your earliest food memory? My grandmother’s vegetable stew.What foods did you like as a child? I didn’t like meat, only vegetables. My brother and I used to swap

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

? Provide him with simple but delicious meal and get him hooked on. What’s the perfect festival food? Anything from Barbeque!!! Your favourite recipe? Grilled Fruits (see Tandoori Phal in our Recipes section).

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

sprouting broccoli or kale and lashings of gravy. What’s the best way to tempt a fussy eater? Get them to grow it or pick it themselves. What’s the perfect festival food? Roasted pig on a spit in a soft white roll with lots of crackling and apple sauce

. This is the Mo Café, a secluded Aladdin’s cave, hidden away behind Regent Street. Here, treasures come not just in the form of exquisitely presented tea and cakes. Itinerant style queens the Muzungu Sisters have set up their pop-up shop for the festive season