It is Brit Week in Los Angeles and I was tapped by Chef Darren McGrady, The Royal Chef, to prepare s dinner based on his book. The only hitch was Chef Darren was leaving kitchen duties to me. No pressure cooking another chef's recipes whilst he dines with guests! The setting was an elegant estate in Beverly Hills. I am happy to say we did not embarrass the chef. Chef Darren was a guest last season on my cooking show The Inn Crowd.
Darren was personal chef to Queen Elizabeth II, Diana, Princess of Wales and Princes’ William and Harry for fifteen years and has cooked for Presidents’ Ford, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush. He is now a chef, author, culinary consultant, event planner and public speaker living in Dallas, Texas. His first cookbook titled ‘Eating Royally; recipes and remembrances from a palace kitchen’ is now in sixth print with all of his advance and royalties donated to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation.
BritWeek is a non-profit organization, started in Los Angeles in 2007 by Nigel Lythgoe and the then Consul General Bob Peirce, to highlight the creative fusion between the United Kingdom and California, and now Miami. In March 2013, we officially launched BritWeek Visits Miami! BritWeek was formed to educate the general public about the contributions of the British to California in particular and the United States in general, and to do other and various good (public) works. In furtherance of these endeavors, we host and publicly support a number of events open to the general public that focus on the British contribution to film, fashion, music, the automotive industry and science.
