Top chef. Top guy. Top dad.
Jamie didn’t do particularly well at school. Born in 1975 in Essex (England), his parents ran a pub called The Cricketers. Some of Jamie’s first experiences of cooking were in the pub’s kitchen. When Jamie was 16, he left school (without taking his exams), and enrolled at Westminster Catering College. After graduating, he got a job with the Italian chef Antonio Carluccio, working as a pastry chef, before moving to The River Café as a sous chef.