The Sea

Seafoods offer the most potential for creative cookery. The sea provides a vast array of textures and flavours, which lend themselves to multiple cooking techniques, from pan-roasting to gentle poaching in butter or stock, baking in salt and seaweed, steaming and searing. And combinations of accompanying flavours offer almost endless possibilities too. However, it is the subtlety and gentle nature of the flavour and texture of seafood that speaks to me as a chef.