Denise norton chef

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Please click below to help InDaily continue to uncover the facts. Make a comment View comment guidelines. Loading next article. What has been the highlight of your illustrious career so far and why?

Opening my own restaurant as a chef working alongside Bee and being able to look out the kitchen window at a packed, buzzing room of happy punters makes all that hard work worthwhile. Patience, confidence, a master at Excel spreadsheets, leading the talented chefs beside me and that adrenalin that kicks in alongside the fear of failure!

You have lived and worked in London, Ireland, India and Africa where is your favourite home away from home and why? When I lived overseas my only focus at that time was to be a better chef — I worked incredibly long hours. When and how did you discover your passion for food? I think the true passion for food came whilst working in Ireland.

As the cooking lesson began, three young sous chefs stood along the kitchen counter, attentive, eager — and hungry. Denise Norton, head chef and owner of the school at W. Madison St. It was as good a guess as any. At Flavour, Norton transforms her crisp kitchen into a lively classroom, teaching about 15 new classes and 60 original recipes each month.