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Where I come from everyone can cook. My whole family - my father, mama, dad, sister, grandma - would all cook inside the house. We had a family shop selling natural linen, which is a big product in the Amalfi Coast. I used to go with my father to meet his many customers. One morning we went to Maiori, a village about half a mile away, to meet with his friend Alfonso, who ran a family trattoria. Gennaro Contaldo is widely known as the Italian legend who taught Jamie Oliver all he knows about Italian cooking and is one of the UK’s best-loved chefs, as well as being author of a dozen best-selling Italian recipe books. Born in Minori on the Amalfi Coast, Gennaro’s quintessentially Italian spirit and positive nature has made him a TV favourite. He regularly appears on Saturday Kitchen as well as his own TV show, the highly successful Two Greedy Italians, BBC2. “The man cooks like an angel — and no ordinary angel’.” Matthew Norman Gennaro has worked in some of London’s most popular restaurants, such as the late Antonio Carluccio’s ‘Neal Street Restaurant’. In 1999 he opened his own restaurant ‘Passione’ in Charlotte Street, London, which was awarded Best Italian restaurant in 2005. His first cookbook, ‘Passione’, published by Headline in 2003, won Best Italian Cook Book 2003 at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards and was short listed for the André Simon Award. He has since written many other books on Italian Gennaro Contaldo was born in Minori on the Amalfi coast, where he first started helping in local restaurant kitchens at the age of eight. He came to Britain in the late 1960s and spent his first years travelling around the country, working in local village restaurants and studying wild food. He then came to London where he worked as a chef in a number of restaurants before opening the award-winning 'Passione'. We first met Gennaro Contaldo as the chef who inspired Jamie Oliver when they had worked together at Carluccio's. Since then Gennaro's quintessentially Italian spirit has made him a TV favourite and these days he divides his time between inspiring us to cook authentic Italian food through his books, magazine articles and television appearances, and working with Jamie on his 'Jamie's Italian' restaurants. Gennaro lives in north-east London with his partner and their twin daughters.
I begged my father to stay and pick me up later in the afternoon, and the joke is that he picked me up three years later, because I rarely left the trattoria! I loved it so much there, and Alfonso would give me little jobs to do. If someone ordered chicken, I would be sent out the back to capture a live chicken - the food was that fresh. Over time I was working there over the school holidays as a summer job, and that’s what inspired me to become a chef. Aged 20, after travelling around Italy, I landed in the UK, and I am so blessed that I can now split my time between England and my beloved birthplace!
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