My name is Richard and I am a passionate self-taught home cook, eating and cooking my way through life.
 
I was born in Spain and I was very fortunate to have 2 great cooks in my life one being Mum and the other, my dad. Mum is English and from Manchester, and dad is Spanish and originally from a very small village called Anchuras. We moved to England in the summer of '86 when I was 6 years old. Growing up with my brother it was Mum who would cook dinner for the family Monday – Saturday and it was always homemade and always fresh, but when it came to Sunday that was Mum's day off from the kitchen and the apron would be handed over to Dad. When Dad was cooking, you could always rely on it being a Spanish dish like paella or what he would call mountain food; something like a huge pot of lentils, enough to feed the whole street or a chicken roast dinner, but with his own little Spanish twist.

My love for food and cooking came into play when my wife and I moved in together in 2002 and I happened to discover Jamie Oliver’s 'The Naked Chef' TV show. From that moment, I just fell in love with cooking and food, because at the time there was no one like him. Since then, it's been a passion of mine.