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A defining moment


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#1 yvonne johnson

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Posted 26 August 2002 - 12:59 PM

Your bio says that meeting Simon Hopkinson at Leith's School of Food and Wine was "a defining moment in [your] life". Can you say more about this? Specifically, what made this so?

#2 tripe

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 01:27 PM

He is without a doubt the greatest cook this country has raised. He has the best understanding of food and its preparation. He has an instinct that enables him to breing ingtredients together for the greates of effect and more importantly he knows better than anyone when to stop.