April Bloomfield
April Bloomfield
April Bloomfield, is a British chef best known for holding a Michelin star at two restaurants, The Spotted Pig and The Breslin Bar & Dining Room. She had previously worked at a number of restaurants in the United Kingdom, including The River Café and Bibendum...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionChef
thinking people meat
I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
animal pigs cooking
I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.
girl men thinking
I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.
jobs passion hard-work
If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative.... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else.
jobs mistake errors
I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.
chef bigs finesse
Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.
fun looks recipes
Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.
chefs ears food heads pictures stuffed
All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig's ears and pigs' heads and the like.
sucker
I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.
motivating
I can't be everywhere, but I'm always in one of my kitchens, and hopefully I'm motivating and inspiring.
vegetables carrots
I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!