Meet Your COOK
While every COOK dish is most definitely a team effort, it's the chef who takes the glory and gets their name on the label. To cook many of our dishes we use big, steam-heated saucepans, called brat pans. In this pan, our team of chefs (headed up by Alan Martin) brown onions; make sauces and reductions; and slow-cook our casseroles for anything up to six hours. They need to season and taste every dish to make sure the flavour is just right. Just like a top restaurant kitchen, you'll find a close-knit team of cooks working together with care and precision (and, from time to time, using language that would make your mother blush).
Michael Ewens
Head Chef
What is your favourite COOK dish to eat? - Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie
If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life what would it be? - Chocolate
Help! Fire! What one item would you save from your own kitchen? - My Knife Block
Tea or Coffee? - Coffee
Orhan Houssein
Chef
What’s the best thing about working for COOK? - My manager Alan Martin and the people that I work with.
What is your favourite COOK dish to make? - Coq Au Vin
Who would your dream dinner party guests be? - Miranda Hart, David Williams and Roger Waters
Darren Card
Chef
What is your favourite COOK dish to eat? - Macaroni Cheese
Where in the world would you most like to visit? - Iceland to see the Northern Lights
Help! Fire! What one items would you save from your own kitchen? - The coffee machine as I love my coffee!
Lewis Fever
Chef
What is your favourite COOK dish to make? - Chilli con Carne
What do you like to cook at home? - My wife has banned me from cooking as I’m apparently too messy but we do make a great lasagne together.
What did you want to be when you were little? - James Bond or Batman
Rob Stevens
Head of Prep
What’s the best thing about working for COOK? - Creating and feeding the nation with the best convenience food on the market
Who would your dream dinner party guests be? - It would have to be my family past and present
Favourite album? - Craig David, Born to do it
Paula Barnard
The Finishing Team
What is your favourite COOK dish to eat? - Lamb Dupiaza
Who would your dream dinner party guests be? - Lee Evans(entertainment), Olly Murs (eye candy), Cold Play (to sing)
Where in the world would you most like to visit? - Australia
Janine Baker
The Finishing Team
What is your favourite COOK dish to make? - Huntsman's Chicken
What did you want to be when you were little? - A nurse or a midwife
Where in the world would you most like to visit? - New York
