Chef Adrian Martin: I always wanted to do something with food, despite being burned at 3

This Much I Know: "My granny used to bake with us a lot and my mam cooked a lot at home so I was always surrounded by it"

Adrian Martin is an ambassador for Cystic Fibrosis Ireland's 65 Roses Day. Picture: Shane O'Neill, SON Photographic.

When I was small, my dad had a hardware business in west Cavan and we lived above it. He sold it before the country went bust and we moved to Bawnboy. My parents are still there. It’s a really lovely, quiet, little village. The transition of moving from a main street in a town to the countryside was amazing. It was a complete contrast of living for us as kids. 

My parents planted an orchard with us, we grew fruit and vegetables, we each have a tree that they planted with us. We always had chickens for eggs and ducks and horses and dogs. They gave us the best you could possibly have. I went back to live there at the start of Covid when everything went into lockdown. It kind of made me appreciate it all again. It was very strange, it was kind of like being back in school again, but it was nice to be back.