Meet Your COOK

While every COOK dish is most definitely a team effort, it's the chef who takes the glory and gets their name on the label. To cook many of our dishes we use big, steam-heated saucepans, called brat pans. In this pan, our team of chefs (headed up by Alan Martin) brown onions; make sauces and reductions; and slow-cook our casseroles for anything up to six hours. They need to season and taste every dish to make sure the flavour is just right. Just like a top restaurant kitchen, you'll find a close-knit team of cooks working together with care and precision (and, from time to time, using language that would make your mother blush).

Michael Ewens

Head Chef

What is your favourite COOK dish to eat? - Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie

If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life what would it be? - Chocolate

Help! Fire! What one item would you save from your own kitchen? - My Knife Block

Tea or Coffee? - Coffee

Orhan Houssein

Chef

What’s the best thing about working for COOK? - My manager Alan Martin and the people that I work with.

What is your favourite COOK dish to make? - Coq Au Vin

Who would your dream dinner party guests be? - Miranda Hart, David Williams and Roger Waters

Darren Card

Chef

What is your favourite COOK dish to eat? - Macaroni Cheese 

Where in the world would you most like to visit? - Iceland to see the Northern Lights 

Help! Fire! What one items would you save from your own kitchen? - The coffee machine as I love my coffee!

Lewis Fever

Chef

What is your favourite COOK dish to make? - Chilli con Carne

What do you like to cook at home? - My wife has banned me from cooking as I’m apparently too messy but we do make a great lasagne together.

What did you want to be when you were little? - James Bond or Batman

 

Rob Stevens

Head of Prep

What’s the best thing about working for COOK? - Creating and feeding the nation with the best convenience food on the market

Who would your dream dinner party guests be? - It would have to be my family past and present

Favourite album? - Craig David, Born to do it

Paula Barnard

The Finishing Team

What is your favourite COOK dish to eat? - Lamb Dupiaza

Who would your dream dinner party guests be? - Lee Evans(entertainment), Olly Murs (eye candy), Cold Play (to sing)

Where in the world would you most like to visit? - Australia

Janine Baker

The Finishing Team

What is your favourite COOK dish to make? - Huntsman's Chicken

What did you want to be when you were little? - A nurse or a midwife

Where in the world would you most like to visit? - New York