, 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

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

something very comforting about the fact that her teas were always the same and thanks to my grandma I can now make a mean Battenberg and my children, Ella, 11, Lola, 10  and Finley 9, are now learning to do the same.What foods did you like as a child

from the confines of the restaurant, magically became all sweetness and light again.Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, Church Road
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Oxford. La Petite Ecole runs April 11–13 (£225 per child), April 14–15 (adult and child, from £495); classes

think you’re getting down with the homeys, but whatever you say about any programme they like once they are passed the age of four your child and her friends will think you’re from another planet.Brag You know the stuff; I could have been a Beckham