Chef Mark Moriarty: 'Women are always right'

This Much I Know: "I think the lesson I’d like to pass on is that no matter what you decide you want to do it’s going to take hard work to do it."

Mark Moriarty

I don’t think anyone is ever born into a line of work. I think everyone is kind of a product of their environment and what they grow up in. Cooking was always something I was interested in and I thought if I could work in something that I had an interest in it was going to be easier and more rewarding.

We have a small inshore fishing boat down in Kerry where my dad is from and I used to be mad into fishing lobster and crab in the summer. The kind of natural progression was to learn how to cook the stuff. Without knowing it at the time you get an education into what’s quality and what’s not.