Mark Poynton and Adam Smith among chefs cooking for Murray Chapman’s charity dinner

Five chefs, including the likes of Mark Poynton and Adam Smith, will be cooking at a charity dinner in support of Murray Chapman, who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) earlier this year.

The four-course dinner will take place from 6.30pm on 17 September at Caistor Hall in Norwich from chefs Eric Snaith of Titchwell Manor; Russell Bateman of the Falcon Castle Ashby; Sam Carter of Restaurant 22 Cambridge; Adam Smith of Woven and Coworth Park; and Mark Poynton of Mark Poynton at Caistor Hall.

Dishes will include leek, seaweed, egg yolk and truffle; dry aged trout potato, horseradish, sudachi, cucumber and Golden Oscietra caviar; Dingley Dell pork celeriac, miso and black walnut; and russet apple, brown butter, bay leaf and blackberry.

Chapman, a former chef and Education and Training Catey Award winner, has been a firm advocate of the industry, having founded non-profit initiative A Passion to Inspire in 2009 to train and mentor culinary students.  

Over the years, he has raised over £240,000 for charities such as Teenage Cancer Trust and Hospitality Action.

Chapman is also a Craft Guild of Chefs Master Craftsman, a member of the Master Chefs of Great Britain, and Disciple Escoffier.

A fundraising campaign was launched in June to enable Murray and his family to pay for essential equipment following his MND diagnosis, which has since raised over £13,000.