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Revelations: Trevor Garden, chef-director, Buzzworks Holdings

What was your best subject at school?

 

Art

 

What was your first job?

 

I was 17 and on a Youth Training Scheme in a Mexican kitchen, Chimmy Chungas, on Great Western Road in Glasgow

 

What do you normally have for breakfast?

 

Black coffee

 

What do you do to relax?

 

I have three Weimaraner dogs, so I take them for walks out on the hills in Perthshire

 

Which is your favourite restaurant?

 

Per Se in New York

 

What’s your favourite hotel?

 

The Waldorf Astoria in New York

 

What is your favourite drink?

 

Bourbon on the rocks – three ice cubes and a slice of lime

 

What is your favourite cuisine?

 

Grilled

 

Which ingredient do you refuse to cook with?

 

Table salt – I much prefer sea salt

 

Which person in catering have you most admired?

 

Raymond Blanc

 

Which person gave you the greatest inspiration?

 

Thomas Keller – he has taken the food scene on a long journey and he promotes local suppliers

 

Cast away on a desert island, what luxury would you take?

 

My three dogs

 

If you had not gone into catering, where do you think you would be now?

 

Gamekeeper

 

What irritates you most about the industry?

 

When developing younger chefs isn’t a focus. I believe more effort should be put into this in every business

 

What’s your favourite film?

 

Kelly’s Heroes or 13 Hours

 

Who would play “you” in a film about your life?

 

Brad Pitt

 

What’s your favourite book?

 

The French Laundry Cookbook

 

Who would be in your “fantasy” brigade?

 

Sat Bains, Gary Rhodes, Gordon Ramsay and Raymond Blanc

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