Nursery World - My working life ... Nursery chef

Making meals for 40 young children every day requires attention to
detail - and skill in baking Peppa Pig birthday cakes, Gabriella Jozwiak
discovers.

David Neil is a nursery chef at the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) Queensborough Community Nursery in Westminster, London.

'I never planned to be a chef. I fell into it when I was working as a barman after college. One day the chef didn't turn up, so I had to step in,' Mr Neil says.

'I always enjoyed cooking, and as the eldest of six children in my family, I had a lot of practice growing up. When I started working in the kitchen, it was my mum who encouraged me to do a formal qualification. She bought me my first knives and chef's whites. I trained at the same college as Jamie Oliver.

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