Hospitality types have some unexpected hobbies and pastimes.
While Gary Rhodes likes pumping iron his chef peers Giorgio Locatelli and Bruce Poole are happiest leaping on motorbikes and hitting the open road.
Hotel chief Sir Rocco Forte competes in Iron man competitions (apparently for fun) and Michel Roux Jr is an accomplished long distance runner.
Chris Scragg former boss of Marston Hotels (now part of QHotels) has his own racing team and Alastair Storey and William Baxter of caterer BaxterStorey have been able to combine business with pleasure feeding staff at the Honda Formula One Team.
But we thought we’d misheard when told that Vacherin director of food Alan Eggleston has got hold of a candyfloss machine to fill his empty hours. Sweet.
Whether Alan has bought his culinary knowledge to bear on the nation’s fetes and funfairs is unknown although Vacherin co-founder Clive Hetherington when confronted with this news was heard to say “so that’s why we can never get hold of him to work at weekends”.
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