Tom Kerridge Opens Up About His Addiction, Relapsing & His Michelin Star Pub
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- Tom Kerridge, is a renowned chef with an impressive array of accolades, including two Michelin Stars, the UK's Best Restaurant of the Year, and the title of Best Pub of the Year.
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In this episode, Tom shares his journey of growing a successful business whilst dealing with alcohol addiction. He details the intricacies of building his award winning pub, The Hand and Flowers, with his wife Beth Cullen-Kerridge. Tom shares how he has created a committed and positive culture in the kitchen, a place that is known for being a harsh and challenging environment. He also shares insights into his partnership with his wife, detailing the challenges and rewards of running a business together and the importance of maintaining a strong connection.
During this conversation, Tom opens up to Jake and Damian about his struggles with alcoholism, revealing how the high-pressure environment of the kitchen led him to rely on drinking as a coping mechanism. He reflects on the pivotal moment when he decided to quit drinking, after realising the impact it had on both his health and his career trajectory. They discuss the importance of personal growth and why he encourages this within his employees too.
Throughout the interview Tom offers valuable lessons on leadership, commitment, and the power of change. Tom’s love for his craft shines through as he discusses the broader impact of his work beyond the kitchen, specifically the importance of food and nutritional education within young people. Tom inspires listeners to embrace change, foster a supportive work environment, and strive for excellence in every endeavour.
0:00 Introduction
1:15 What Is High Performance?
4:34 A Different Kind of Drive
7:19 🚨 Join WHOOP
8:38 Kitchens Attract Outsiders
11:45 The Kitchen Culture
18:27 The Daily Drinking
22:19 Finding Your Limit
24:34 Quitting Alcohol
32:14 Life After Alcohol
33:51Emerging Chefs
34:32 Creating A Culture
39:04 Job, Career Or Calling?
43:19 Focusing On The Detail
47:48 Kitchen Misconceptions
50:51 Child Food Poverty
55:46 What Drives You Today?
56:50 Quick-Fire Questions
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As an alcoholic who has relapsed, thanks for speaking out! We don't choose to wake up and destroy our lives. The self sabotage resonates with me.
I used to deliver cooking oil to his pub ... genuinly a top bloke ... alaays got me a drink Ns had a chat with me ... always respected that
I gave up alcohol 4 years ago. January 1st, 2020 is the best thing I have done for me, my family. I just feel a lot better for it.
Please believe in yourself and never touch the devil, get so cross with non alcoholic.
Lost my alcoholic husband with suicide.
It is from the devil.
Married again and no alcohol in the house ever or not marry.
20 years of bliss, because I never stressed about a monster alcohol can make you.
Covert and all the lies killed him.
Your family is blessed and God bless you too.
Glad he touched on what nutcases there are working in kitchens. I have been working in kitchens for 30 years and I rarely have come across any chef that would be classed as ‘normal’ in any other industry. Most are insecure, unfriendly, over-friendly, addicted, bullies, sex- freaks, anti-social, rude, arrogant etc etc A proper selection of complete oddballs. Some very creative people most of whom are incapable of accepting criticism but some of the hardest working people you can ever meet.
You have just described every person in society there, mate.
That is so fucking accurate.
This is real life not Chef Sim on the Switch, lol. Nah, you've ain't been in your own kitchen, never mind worked in one?!🤣Alright, name a Michelin Star kitchen you've worked?
Other than the stereotypical generalising, you’re not far off.
You are correct.not worked with even one that could in any way be classed as normal.all a bunch of bullies
Excellent honest and reflective interview.
Wow, what an amazing interview. Thanks to all
When he said we got perfection and 2 Stars. Marco gave back all 3 stars. Then carried on cooking his own fantastic food. Inventing the Knoor stock jelly snot pot on the way. Success
Went for a meal at the Hand & Flowers well over 10 years ago. I'll say this, the man knows what he's doing.
The chef podcasts are always superb
Mate I’m struggling with alcoholism 10 yrs welsh guards. 5 yrs raf and 4 yrs met police, I believe I need you. I love food because I love to eat mate x
Similar journey for me. Good luck mate.
Loved this. 👍
Good podcast and good luck Tom, good health to you and family mate! 💪👍
Love this interview. His willingness to share his story is inspiring but for me when he spoke about the importance of people skills in his business, how much he values genuinely friendly people & chefs who put love into their cooking, that was the best part 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤
What a great interview! Glad Tom is still around to tell us his story after his health struggles. I think we all need to reign in the alcohol consumption! While I am motivated I am off out on my bike for a nice 50km cycle to clear the cobwebs :)
Tom so with you , i walked away from the stove at ,73 my journey was the same as yours i had my own Restaurant , but the antics the same i now have ex trainees around the world we are still connected still cruel when it comes to humour well done
You have to be an addict, to understand an addict.
Simply brilliant Tom, outstanding - from a punter. Thanks Guys
Love the insight and seeing what happens behind the scenes🔥
Only watched this as the guest is a bit of a Leg End to me I think even more of him now All hail Cap’n Kerridge, Aaaaargh!
We ate at his restaurant it was ok not incredibly special and prices were high but expected that. Such a friendly chap. 😊
Amazing man
Great bloke, love Tom!
I was the same. That world at 19 was amazing. I loved a drink too. I moved to England, travelled all across the South and met my wife. I was exhausted, thinking it was the life. Turns out I had MS since age 20. I was medically retired at 31. Good memories. Devon, Isles of Scilly, Hampshire, Surrey, wow. Not bad for a kid from Scotland who feļĺ out of school and into kitchens.
Great show guys,just one thing as normal these chef's tell you what you want to here,my nephew worked as a weekend staff at the hand and flowers he was talked down to being a young lad made to feel like shit so he walked out this knocked his confidence for months.
A marvellously eloquent speaker,on all the aspects of his journey,to where he is now,in the hospitality industry.
Love Tom Kerridge
Love watching tom cook ,seems like a top bloke ,top chef
Top man!
in a one-hour interview, no mention as to HOW he quit drinking. What about withdrawals, medical treatment, rehab?
Not all people go through that. There is also a difference between having a drink problem and being a full blown alcoholic.
Nice one Tom
To Tom's point, Japanese schools use their lunchtimes as an opportunity to promote food education, teaching as they serve the students. It's a huge part of their education system that is taken very seriously.
Would love the interviewers to drill down on the guest when he is so obviously talking BS and the whole, grew up on a council estate line is very tiring, some serious grafters fighting for a living on every housing estate council or not, gave the interview a go, not for me
Good luck
I disagree, I've worked in incredibly aggressive kitchens. im not down for it, to be fair. I've worked also with lovely humans. you can't generalize. you make it sound like kitchens are warm and cuddly places. Not always true. Having said. I've made great friends. can you make a great kedgeree?
Fucking LEGEND!!!!!!
All people leaving stupid comments need to do 16 hours a day 6 days a week to appreciate this interview in a pro kitchen
I read that as prolapsing
Crazy the amount he drank. I didn’t think drinking that amount per night was possible
I can hit subscribe way quicker than five seconds! Give me some credit....!
Spent many years in this environment. "Banter" all well & good, but "treading on spilt jus" when it can escalate into bullying.
Met many amazing people, from around the globe, met some Arse holes !
Brexit, Pandemic etc has floored hospitality. Profit margins were tight even before recent global events.
Can imagine the consequences in 2024, of getting caught covering a car in Clingwrap !
How come he is still alive with all that daily alcohol consumption in his past? He must have got very close to a liver transplant at one point. All credit to him for getting through it. Livers do heal given a chance so well done Tom..
Yeah. Think he ate well probably so that may've helped & because he didn't Drink 1st thing in the morning etc it might have helped regarding his routine. Also worked hard so could focus more on that as he had structure there rather than being an unemployed Alcoholic with nothing to focus on. Surely had withdrawals though so maybe his GP gave him Diazepam & Librium perhaps.
I tell you what, being a female in that kind of environment and the banter and as an introvert, was pretty nerve wracking. I look back on those days and loved parts of it, especially when i was young, but hard to navigate it with a young family and being a mum. I think and hope there is a culture change.
Being sober is self defence ! , it's as simple as that.
I admire anyone who makes a living from their art but for those struggling to feed their family it seems a bit superficial
WHAT ?
Top lad, absolutely top lad. Scorpion and the frog, you can't change, pure Scorpion.
I call him the spiteful imp my little guy.
Recovery should never be about fear of relapsing
The picture painted of the industry back then is a bit disingenuous. It was brutal, hard and people were bullied. Many people have been damaged by the industry and substance abuse is a big part of that.
Top Bloke
People bitch about his prices. But it’s not an everyday thing. It’s a special occasion event….unless your minted.
Exactly ,it's an experience
I didn’t hear much in the way of praise for kitchen porters. You know, the underpaid ones doing the shitty jobs in a kitchen. It would be so refreshing to hear chefs give genuine credit to us. I’ve given it up because of how we are treated by all other parts of hospitality.
Top bloke
😅did this man singlehandedly fight off an army ,thats what it sounds like he's describing ,or did he work as a chef, took a punt on running his own place and made it work, got on tv which gave him license to use his name to overcharge for the meals someone cooks under his name , absolute bullshit
Legend 🤣🤣
£37 fish and chips, 😂, greed!
Then don't pay ?
@@runswithwindz9875 only a mug would. It's exploitive or selective. Wonder what type of person he wants to be.
I don't understand - Don't pay if you don't want to ? Do you even understand what exploitative means ?@@zombiestyled
Fish & chips curry sauce €150 bargain
Surely you mean £ 9000 right ?
He constantly fleeces Marlow
No he does not. Nobody forces you into his establishment ! Well certainly not you as you don't have a pot to pish in right ?
Says he never drank during service but earlier he says he's doing cans of stella with the crew before sunday lunch!
There’s a difference between during and before
Before and during are different things my friend.
And that's all you understood out of this whole thing, innit?
@@ebbs0000 yeah it means you're drunk before you start
Literally noi neeed to poke holes mate. Read between the lins,he's saying he didn't properly drink. You don't get it.
Tom is great but he shouldn't have allowed these two quacks to talk to him.Jake, the 'merchant Banker' par excellence
He is over-exaggerating. Never met a fat alcoholic in my life. They are skinny af as they don't eat.
Hope he legitimately lost it
I can’t honestly think of any other profession that has the same level of self induced pressure and high expectations as catering does??.These top tier chefs just appear possessed by something that forces them to demand ludicrously high expectations on everyone around them!!.Ultimately,all they are producing is fucking food!!….😂😂….not exactly the high pressures of open heart surgery Is it??….just saying!!
OK mate you heat things in a pot we get it.
Picasso daubed a bit and Mozart was some old poof who wrote tunes right ?
Why is being able to give something up that you shouldn't be doing in the first place seen as some sort of an achievement??
Is there anyone who doesn't have a vice of some kind?
@@benb8647 It's not that I'm saying we can all be perfect. But, let's say I'd been a football hooligan, addicted to violence. Would I deserve a medal for stopping doing it and just being a well behaved football fan?
@@sharkymarkie bit different when you're harming yourself vs harming others.
Because once you are addicted it's really hard to stop. Culture and other people are the hardest bit.
Giving up an addiction is an achievement.
Tom, i totally agree the conversation about school meals. You are exactly right. Why don't you put some of your own money into it like Jamie Oliver has?
Sounds like he was an alcoholic.
Do you think so ! ??? Brilliant insight !
He probably still drinking, contradictory person
Probably ? You have some insight ?
Sex, drugs, rock and roll the cliched great things in life. Bench presses and early nights , yawn. A bit like this video. Couldn’t watch it all to be honest.
Then why not leave without bothering to comment ?
we all have the right to our opinion. What a dull world if everyone had to agree to what you think is right in the comments and blow smoke up everyone's arses. What comment did you leave apart from having a pop at me ? What did you think to the interview ? If you had cared to think about my comments and maybe to have read one or two autobiographies, a lot of them talk about sex, drugs and rock and roll. Take any rock star, chef, footballer they've all went down the same road and compare that lifestyle to being sober and working out all the time, things can get a little dull and very tough in their own way. And again this is a dull interview its cliched and read a thousand times.
Any chef who said he has never drank before or during service is a liar or not old enough to call themselves a chef
Why are chefs always up their own a..e!
Top chefs on tv all use tons of butter, cream, red meats, sugars etc & yet no1 seems to call them out for it?
What a lovely humble man. Recovery ❤️🩹
chefs seem to be failed rock stars to me
I bet you failed at everything ?
His restaurant charges £30 for fish and chips, he’s a greedy twant….
Don't go there then ?
@@runswithwindz9875 i make my own
@@runswithwindz9875are you toms agent or accountant. Or tom. You said this in another post.
..yeah whatever
Brilliant ! You should write for a living .
Poor guy 😂go and spend ur millions in ur absurd over priced restaurants and ridiculous priced chip shops soon be broke 😢
What a sad comment.
Great show but school meals are responsibility of parents, not the state. If you cannot support your kids dont have them. not political just basic facts, dont tread same path as Jamie Oliver
Bit harsh? ,haven’t you ever appreciated support?
This is an area our government can support. Some parents unfortunately don't think about there children's needs and even if they could support having a child. Therefore the government SHOULD step in to provide them with a healthy lunch. I'm no labour supporter but children cant support themselves.
What a stupid and ignorant thing to say. It is the states responsibility to feed Your child while they are in the care of the school. It’s nothing to to with responsibility of parents. If Your child was at their grandparents or a friends house being looked after for a whole day or night, is it Your responsibility to provide food? You would I’m sure, hope that whoever is looking after child, to feed them.
As for don’t have kids if You can’t support them, that is another stupid comment. Sometimes people’s circumstances change financially after having children.
Everyone is entitled to food in the stomach and a roof over their head. And it is the responsibility of the state to care for it’s people just as it to provide healthcare
Maybe u should lookup the history of free school meals and why it even exists (it's not actually free either)
I agree, trouble is the more support there is on offer,the more people will grab it and become reliant upon it and lose respect ,
I don't rate him as a chef.
His food prices r a rip off no shame
Sorry ? Do you speak any English at all ?
You are not his target customer that’s why
Yes he can do that now!🫣 but without the finances? Give me a break?
What the hell does that mean ? Did you muck about a lot at school Wayne ?