Private Chef Cristiano Trombin

I went to Culinary art college in Italy, start to work as kitchen apprentice at 17, now I'm 54.

I worked for various hotels and restaurants in France, Switzerland and Italy. Too many to list them all.

Most notable places where I worked was Hotel Danieli 5*Lux, in Venice in 1987; The Walnut tree, with my mentor F. Taruschio in 1992; Dafne's in London in 1995. Hotel de la paix in Lugano 4*, Switzerland. More recently I was working in 2018 for C. Bosi at the Swan in Claygate and in 2019 at The French table in Surbiton.

For me, cooking is...

My lifestyle,in a good kitchen you learn every day, even at my age.Cooking is exploring and build knowledge with a dash of creativity and imagination.

I learned to cook at...

In Italy if your mom or nana see that you are interested they teach everything they know about food. The rest is up to you.

A cooking secret...

In a good kitchen there are no secrets, everything is shared, so your recipes can be perfected in future.But the food must be good and nice every time