‘No child should go to bed hungry’: the project helping families eat affordably [positive.news]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/2/214:00 AM

By Oliver Balch, Photo: Christian Barnett, Positive.News, November 29, 2021

Tom Kerridge was a hungry teenager long before he was a top chef. After he’d played back-to-back rugby games at the weekend, his mum, who held down two jobs to keep the family afloat, always had a Sunday roast ready for him and his brother.

“My brother is 6ft 5in. So, yeah, we were two big Gloucester lumps, [but] she was always there for us, always trying to make sure we had what we needed,” Kerridge recalls.

From his council estate beginnings, he has gone on to find television fame and cooking success (his Marlow restaurant has two Michelin stars), but memories from his childhood kitchen remain fresh – as his new, youth-focused cooking campaign clearly shows.

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