JOL's Food

The first bit was easy. I had grown up at my grandmother's table in Merthyr Tydfil enjoying the traditional Welsh dishes she loved to cook for her family. I loved food and I was fascinated by the alchemy of taking different flavours and textures to create something new - something different, maybe something that had never been tried before.

I could not have had a better mentor. Stephen Terry of the award-winning Hardwick restaurant in Abergavenny gave me the perfect opportunity. Six years have passed and now it's my time to fulfil the last part of my journey - time to do it my way.