Weekend Food with Darina Allen: Robin Gill’s book Larder enraged me and brought me close to tears
The introduction to Robin Gill’s book Larder enraged me and brought me close to tears. Robin’s graphic description of his long and tortuous journey through many kitchens both in Ireland and the UK to become a chef makes harrowing reading and speaks volumes about the reason why there is now a proper chef crisis in so many restaurants.
What Robin, who comes from Malahide in Dublin, and many others have had to endure is not OK, the verbal and physical abuse, sadism and downright cruelty is unconscionable and in any other walk of life would land the perpetrators in jail. How come degrees of this behaviour have been acceptable for so long?
