Gets to know Warren Jackson of Cherwell Edge Golf Club

How long have you been in the business?
I have been a chef for over 15 years, I trained at Oxford and Cherwell College (like Gordon Ramsay) but I stayed local, working for different hotels, restaurants and clubs before following my dream of having my own business.

Where is the best place you have worked?
I worked for a few years at Bodicote Park in Banbury, This was a great time in my life, it was not like work, it was just too much fun. All my friends from college worked there as well.

How long have you been in the business?
I've been in the trade for 27 long years! I gave myself the choice of being a chef or joining the army; after the first round of arguments between my ex-Sandhurst commissioned father and the recruiting sergeant at the army office I ran to college, thinking I couldn't spend the next few years on the set of Dads' Army!

 

What does your CV look like?
I haven't had a formal CV for years, but my path started with college then working with

How long have you been in the business?
26 years - more than half my life!!

What does your CV look like?
Starting out as a pub management couple with my (later to be) husband. Our first pub was on the high street in Highgate Village in London. After an initial training period with M&B, we moved to various branded food pubs including a Toby carvery before settling in the Star Inn, Woodstock, where for many years I could create my own menus until Spirit Group bought the pub and changed things. In 2004 it was time to do our own thing and we approached Hook Norton Brewery about a tenancy and have never looked back. But I began my career as a computer graphics programmer.

How long have you been in the business?
I've been in the business 18 years but my love of creating food goes all the way back to my childhood. My earliest memories of cooking are of toasting marmite sandwiches on a corrugated iron roof in Kenya!

What does your CV look like?
I've worked all over the place during my years as a chef. I've cooked for Arsenal football team, at the Oval, the Guildhall, Blenheim Palace and the Tower of London. For a while I worked for an agency that could see me in a Michelin Starred Restaurant one day and cooking for the Salvation Army the next. I've been head chef in various gastro pubs in England and have run my own kitchens from a guest house in Sri Lanka to a drama college in Cornwall.

The team at Trinity is led by Executive Chef Jane Smyth and Head Chef Gavin Austin and these are the answers to Chefʼs questions this month.

How long have you been in the business?
JS: Shocked herself when she calculated that she'd been in the industry 22 years but was quick to point out that she started when she was 16 and hasn't stopped since. GA: An equally impressive 16 years but did stress that being a chef should be calculated like dog years as he felt that he'd been working for a lot longer!