Tom Kerridge fires up the grill with six exclusive recipes, including Lebanese-spiced lamb chops, grilled cucumber with satay and aromatic lemon sole. Plus, Richard Turner on how smoke works
When he was 15, Tom Kerridge bunked off school to build a barbecue. A wall had fallen down behind his mum’s house on the council estate in Gloucestershire where they lived, so Kerridge stacked the bricks and his mate Rob helped him mix the cement. “We stole sand from the sandpit at school, walking backwards and forwards,” Kerridge recalls, evoking in reverse the subterfuge of the tunnellers in The Great Escape. It worked, and in fact the barbecue still stands on that spot.
So Kerridge loved barbecues even as a teenager? “I’ve always been a big fan of anything to do with food,” he laughs. “But this was about just wanting to skive off school and have something fun to do.”
Summer’s here, enjoy it and set fire to lots of stuff – what’s the worst that can happen?
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