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Steven is a British Chef, who is best known
for winning the 6th series of MasterChef: The
Professionals in 2013 becoming one of the youngest
ever winners of the competition at the age of 26.
Previous to MasterChef Steven trained with some of
the country’s leading chefs including Raymond Blanc
& Chris Wheeler before moving to Horsham in 2008
joining the brigade at South Lodge Hotel - a five star
country house hotel in the heart of Sussex. At the
end of 2016 Steven purchased his first restaurant in
Brighton & Hove. Etch will showcase Steven’s
unique style of food focusing on ingredients
grown in and around the Sussex
countryside. We met with him to
find out more...
Amber: Okay, so first of all tell us a bit
about growing up and what it was that
made you decide to become a chef?
Steve: So I grew up in Berkshire with my
mum and dad and they were both in the
industry. My dad started off as a waiter and
ended up being a general manager and
my mum was a housekeeper and that’s
basically how they met so I’ve always
grown up in and around hotels. I always
saw it as like an extension of my home,
if that makes sense? On a Sunday night
when all the family came round, our house
was always the entertaining house, you
always have one house that all the cousins
and family come to. I never said I’m going
to be a chef from the age of 5, it wasn’t
really like that, I always wanted to be a
footballer but it’s something that I did do
and I did enjoy doing and when I realised
I wasn’t that academic I kind of realised
that actually there could be something in
the cooking side which both my parents