Sally Clarke

1. What was your best subject at school?

Lacrosse

2. What was your first job?

At 121/2 years-old, helping in the kitchens of an outside catering company

3. What was your first job in catering?

As above

4. What do you normally have for breakfast?

Fresh air

5. What do you do to relax?

Sleep

6. Which is your favourite restaurant?

Mine

7. What is your favourite drink?

Water

8. What ingredient do you hate the most?

Margarine

9. What do you always carry with you?

A hairbrush

10. How would you best describe your desk?

What desk?

11. Which person in catering have you most admired?

Alice Waters

12. Which people have given you the greatest inspiration?

Alice Waters and Elizabeth David

13. Cast away on a desert island, what luxury would you take?

A bottle of olive oil

14. What daily newspapers do you read?

The Independent and Financial Times at weekends

15. If not yourself, who would you rather have been?

A professional opera singer

16. Where and when was your last holiday?

New Year in Jamaica

17. Tell us a secret…

No

18. What irritates you most about hotels?

Slow room service

19. When did you last have a hamburger?

Last week