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The Food Chain

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Examining what it takes to put food on your plate

The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

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The Food Chain: I'm with the chef

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I'm With the Chef

25/10/2018 GMT

I'm with the chef

BBC World Service - The Food Chain, I'm with the chef

What is it like to live with a Michelin-starred chef?

What is it like to live with a Michelin-starred chef, often picking up the pieces of a brutal schedule?

If you think you’d like your other half to be able to cook like a Michelin-starred chef, this episode might make you think again. When a professional cook is at the top of their game, there might just be someone at home, picking up the pieces of a brutal schedule.

Emily Thomas sits down with three people who are in long-term relationships with  successful chefs and restaurateurs. They lift the lid on what it’s really like to live your life alongside someone in a profession notorious for being intensely stressful, competitive and sometimes a little wild.

Can top chefs be bothered to cook when they get home? And how do they respond to criticism in the kitchen? 

Behind every head chef there’s a great woman or man, it seems. And this episode has three of them: PR executive Samantha Wong, partner of Hong Kong chef and restaurateur May Chow; sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge, who is married to Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge; and engineer Gundeep Gill who is married to Indian restaurateur Romy Gill MBE.

(Photo: A couple kiss behind a heart shaped balloon. Credit: Getty Images)

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