A SLICE OF MY LIFE
The super-chef recounts his journey from simple family fare to top-end cuisine at Fera and L’Enclume
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SIMON ROGAN
PIE PICNICS
I come from a working-class family in a not-too-posh area of Southampton in Hampshire. We didn’t eat extravagantly. Almost every Sunday the family, along with my gran, cousins and aunties, would all travel to a beach in Bournemouth and later come back through the New Forest. Nan worked for a pie factory and she’d bring lots of delicious meat pies, which we’d eat in the forest before the last leg in a pub. Those are fond memories.