your greatest achievement?

Making dinner for my fathers 70th birthday with salmon cured with coriander, salt and sugar, cauliflower and truffle soup, scallops chargrilled on rosemary sticks, boned lamb stuffed with spinach and tarragon, and a tropical fruit salad soup – all of it lovely.

You're greatest missed?

Being at an evening with Heston Blumenthal and being so thrilled to speak with him I couldn’t think of a sensible thing to say!

Sunday evening’s specialty?

Warm rare roast beef and a collection of salads like barley, beetroot and walnuts, potato salad and roasted peppers dressed with basil oil.

3 Ingredients that characterize you?

Garlic, olive oil, bacon.

3 words to describe Cuisine Cup ?

Joy of eating.

Recipe:

Spice Crusted Salmon with Mint Chutney

class="titre2">Ingredients:

1 filet de Saumon de Norvège de 800g, 150ml vegetable oil, 1 large dried chilli, 2 teaspoons cumin seeds; 1 teaspoon coriander seeds, 1/2 tspn black peppercorns, seeds from 2 cardamom pods, 1 tspn brown mustard seeds, 2 teaspoons nigella seeds, 1/4 tspn ground cassia (I didn't have any but it didn't matter), 1/4 tspn ground ginger, 2 tspns salt, 20g chick pea (gram) flour, 1 cup firmly packed mint leaves, 6 spring onions, sliced, 3 small chillis, sliced, 1 tspn minced ginger, 4 cloves garlic, minced, 1 tspn fish sauce, 2 tspns castor sugar, 1 tspn garam masala, 60ml fresh lime juice, 50ml vegetable oil.

If I was:

A piece of meat:

Pork chop.

A fish:

Cod.

A spice:

Chilli flakes.

A cooking ustensil:

Wooden spoon.

A culinary trend:

Szchewan cuisine.