You Failed

By the age of fourteen, I was moving into my fourth year at secondary school. We had to choose our preferred subjects and, knowing I wanted to be a chef, I chose home economics and French. Unfortunately, I was completely rubbish at French and had a major disaster in home economics.

As part of the home economics curriculum I was required to write on a specialised food subject, and I chose meat butchery as my topic. Each Saturday morning I’d read through old butcher books and develop my essay. It took months of solid work, including drawings of livestock, full cut breakdowns and best cooking techniques for each. I thoroughly enjoyed every part of it and I learnt so much about animal anatomy.