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

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

, 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

you to become a chef?I really got interested in baking with my mother and I used to help dad with the gardening, planting and cultivating vegetables and fruit. I was the youngest of six children there were three sisters and three brothers, so I grew up

, and I mean a serious amount of food.Our vegetable garden was about a one-and-a-half acres. Actually, my father did very little. The children did all the work – moving stones, preparing the earth, churning it out, watering the plants, and then of course