Tom Kerridge
MADE IN BRITAIN
His popularity has grown as his waistline has shrunk. Now
the Michelin-starred TV chef has a new range that’s good
enough for professionals but completely home grown, from
a UK manufacturer to your kitchen
here was a time when celebrity
endorsements on your cookware
seemed a bit, well, stuck on. It could
feel that the famous name on your pan
wouldn’t last too many cycles in the
dishwasher. Not anymore. We’re now a
nation of food lovers who idolise chefs
that can help us bring some of their
award-winning excellence into our own
cooking – whether it’s a recipe, a new
technique or by using kitchenware they
have put their name to. Tom Kerridge’s
new range of pans have his name
stamped into the tri-ply stainless steel
so soundly it could only be removed
with an angle grinder. It’s indicative of
a level of commitment that makes his
new cookware no ordinary celebrity
chef range.
But then Tom Kerridge is no ordinary
celebrity chef. His whole career has
seen him do things his own way with
no compromise in quality. After all,
he runs the only pub in the world
with two Michelin stars. This same
desire to do things properly and on
his own terms can be seen in this new
Tom Kerridge range. Rather than lend
his name to existing products, he’s
done things differently and worked
with British manufacturers to create
professional quality products with
master craftspeople. As Tom said: “All of
these products have been tested and are
meant to be used rather than just looked
at, and stand the test of time.”
It should come as no surprise when
you look at his career. After working
for Stephen Bull and Gary Rhodes
and joining Odette’s in Primrose Hill,
he ran the Michelin-starred Norwich
restaurant Adlards. But it was when this
Gloucester-born chef came back down
South in 2005 to take over a run-down
pub in Marlow called The Hand and
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Flowers, with his wife Beth, that his
career really took off. The original idea
was to create a place where Tom and
Beth would like to go on their days off
– a casual, informal space with simply
great food and good service. In 2011
The Hand and Flowers became the first
pub to receive two stars in the Michelin
Guide to add to its four AA Rosettes. In
2014, the same award-winning team
opened The Coach, a sister restaurant
just down the road in Marlow.
When he wasn’t winning awards and
bookings at the pub, Tom was cooking
on TV. He won the Main Course on the
Great British Menu two years running
in 2009 and 2010 and became an in-
demand TV chef. His unpretentious
expertise and enthusiasm for food came
across in programmes including British
Food Revival, Tom Kerridge’s Proper
Pub Food and Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever
Dishes as well as when hosting Saturday
Kitchen, BBC’s Food and Drink and Bake
Off: Crème de la Crème. His profile was
only diminished when he managed
to lose ten stone over three years. His
latest book The Dopamine Diet gave
away some of the secrets of his success,
joining his three other best-selling (and
more calorific) cook books; Proper Pub
Food, Best Ever Dishes and Tom’s Table.
This new range doesn’t just see
Tom become part of the cookware
market but is actively supporting a
British manufacturing renaissance.
He commented: “The journey
that I embarked on trying to find
manufacturers to become involved in
this project was an exciting and eye
opening one. We are constantly told
that British manufacturing is on its
knees, but I found the opposite; strongly
focused people with a passion for
quality and honesty.”