Catherine Fulvio, TV chef

I’ve been around food, and people cooking it, for as long as I can remember.

I grew up with my mum cooking for people staying at Ballyknocken, our farmhouse guesthouse in Wicklow. I never realised how much I was learning by osmosis for all those years.

Confidence comes with age. When I was a child, I was always the youngest in my class. I was confident talking to people, because we had a bed and breakfast business, but in general I wasn’t a particularly confident person until I got older.