Catherine Fulvio: I was born to be the person I am. Food is just in the blood

'I'd like to be remembered as being a great mother. That's the most important thing to me'

The life lesson I would like to pass on is how to cook.

I'm the third generation here on our family farmhouse in Wicklow. My mother opened a Farmhouse Bed and Breakfast here over 50 years ago so I was born into the business. She called it a bed-and-breakfast, but in fact, she cooked three meals a day for guests. I grew up learning how to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for guests who would stay a week. It was quite frantic growing up. I learned an awful lot about farm to fork and natural farm produce, because we were dairy farmers at the time. So we had our own cream and our own milk. At one stage mam had this great idea that we'd make our own butter, which was quite the job as kids turning a churn by hand!

It was a great way to grow up. At the time the guests who stayed were Irish families and there were always loads of kids our own age. So, once we finished our chores, we had a full playground of kids and we used to go mental running around the farm playing all sorts of games, it was just a wonderful, happy childhood.