About Nigel Brown

Top chef Nigel Brown

Nigel Brown

2009

www.nigelbrownchef.co.uk

Biography

Nigel was born in Bridlington, East Yorkshire on 25th June 1966, the youngest son of parents who have spent a lifetime in the Hotel and Catering industry. It is not surprising then, that Nigel, having grown up in this environment, should follow in their footsteps.

From his teenage years Nigel spent much of his time “learning the ropes” at their family restaurant, then known as “The Four Winds”, a sizeable conference and banqueting centre near Driffield, East Yorkshire.

His formal catering training started when at 16 he followed spent 2 years at Hull College, 2 at Scarborough and a year each at Grimsby and Beverley College.

During his career he’s worked at some of the UK’s biggest and busiest hotels and competed in many national competitions including the London Hotelympia Salon Culinaire competitions and also won a place in the Trusthouse Forte’s Chef of the Year competition.

During his career he spent time overseas at the highly acclaimed French cookery school Ecole Le Notre where he picked up a wealth of experience and knowledge in areas of specialist patisserie work. He, like fellow chef and Yorkshire man James Martin both share the privilege of attending Scarborough College, both Nigel and James are highly regarded by senior lecturer Ken Allinson.

In 2007 Nigel was invited for screen tests for BBC2’s Ready Steady Cook. He also filmed and produced a set of 3 cookery DVD’s and launched his Cookery Academy in North Lincolnshire in 2008. He was also invited as a guest chef by Jean Christophe Novelli to deliver courses at the world famous Novelli Academy.

Nigel is in the process of writing his first book, Passionate Puddings & Decadent Desserts to be published in 2010 and is also working on a pilot for a 6 x 30 min series filming in Iceland about Trawler Fishing and extreme cooking at sea.

Nigel regularly demonstrates at top food festivals and events throughout the UK from Brighton’s Jubilee Square, Royal Hampton Court Palace London to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. In 2008 Nigel demonstrated at the Channel 4 Leeds Taste Festival. He’s been a regular celebrity at the 2007/8 & 9 Hull Global Food Fest and has also provided an impromptu “cooking with banter” along with Ainsley Harriot, entertaining the audience with their cheeky sense of humour and easy to follow teaching styles. Nigel is teaming up with Richard Fox in the national Love Food, Hate Waste Campaign and will see him actively involved in promoting the subject, a cause he and Richard demonstrate passionately.

Nigel is booked to appear live in Hull with James Martin in 2010.

Nigel particularly enjoys long haul holidays with adventure and “poolside research” (an important and integral part of his holiday itinerary), he says it’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it!

Other favourite pastimes include, game shooting, clay pigeon shooting, a hike across the North Yorkshire Moors and cars – anything from big beastie 4wd’s to a rusty restoration project and there’s nothing he likes more than to drive, hood down, around the lanes of the Lincolnshire Wolds in his 1971 Austin Sprite.

Nigel says ‘she’s classic Teal Blue with sexy curves and absolutely drop dead gorgeous’, but don’t let his wife hear that!

Contact details:

The Nigel Brown Cookery Academy
E: info@nigelbrownchef.co.uk
W: www.nigelbrownchef.co.uk
M: 07753 370408
O: 01469 530044

A little note from someone you may know!
'It's a pleasure to watch Nigel on stage or in the kitchen, he has a natural ability to entertain
 an audience with his fantastic skill and gentle manner and we enjoy working with him as one of
 our select guest chefs at the Novelli Academy. I don't just admire him as a chef but also as a 
person and both I and the rest of the Academy team are happy to support him in his new venture.

Jean-Christophe Novelli
The Novelli Academy