Derek dishes up 100,000 meals a week on the high seas

IT’S no easy task being in charge of the kitchens on the world’s second largest luxury liner that produces more than 100,000 main courses a week.

Executive chef Derek McKnight, who was born in Ballinlough, Cork city, has 240 chefs working for him serving the finest cuisine money can buy.

He describes himself as a Jamie Oliver-type, who doesn’t resort to the bad language used in the culinary circles inhabited by Gordon Ramsey when the pressure is on.