Ross Lewis launches his groundbreaking new cook book

ROSS LEWIS is standing under the archway at the Princes St entrance to Cork’s renowned English Market, in chef’s whites, arms folded, mugging for the camera.

Ross Lewis launches his groundbreaking new cook book

He’s an old hand at this sort of thing, well able to look after himself when it comes to the media but today, publicising his groundbreaking new cookbook, the nationally renowned Michelin-starred chef who ‘cooked for the queen’ seems uptight, distracted. But, then again, it’s always different back in his hometown.

Lewis follows the photographer’s directions but the smile appears forced, rarely reaching eyes apparently more concerned with scanning the street for approaching passersby. But the volley, when it arrives, comes from the other direction, a gaggle of local middle-aged women delivering ribald whistles and shouts of, ‘Yer lookin’ byooootiful altogether, boy!’.

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