Fergus Henderson

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Fergus Henderson

OBE
Fergus Henderson at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, September 2009
Born (1963-07-31) 31 July 1963 (age 60)
London, England[1]
Culinary career
Cooking styleBritish cuisine
Rating(s)
  • Michelin stars 1 Michelin star
Current restaurant(s)
  • St John 1 Michelin star

Fergus Henderson

Architectural Association in London.[3][4] Most of his dishes are derived from traditional British cuisine
and the wines are all French.

Chefs

Sunday Times.[5]

Fergus is married to fellow chef Margot Henderson; the couple have three children.[6]

Career

Henderson had no formal training in cooking, and has never worked under any other chef. In 1992 Henderson and his wife, Margot, opened the French House Dining Room at Soho's

Michelin star in 2009.[8]

In 2003 he opened St John Bread and Wine in

Michelin star
in 2009. This venue is no longer open.

Nose to Tail Books

In 1999 Henderson published

trotters, tripe, kidneys, chitterlings and other animal parts.[9] The book explains the philosophy behind his cooking explaining that "it seems common sense and even polite to the animal to use all of it. Rather than being testosterone-fuelled blood-lust, it actually seems to be a gentle approach to meat eating."[10]
In 2007, he published a sequel, Beyond Nose To Tail, and in 2012 The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking.

Hotel

Henderson opened a hotel in spring 2011 that was described by his business partner Trevor Gulliver as being 'in the St John vernacular'.

London's Chinatown district near Leicester Square
1 Leicester Street. However, the hotel went into administration in October 2012, and was sold and subsequently closed.

Fergus Henderson with chef Mary Sue Milliken at a dinner at the US Embassy in London in 2019.

Diagnosis with Parkinson's disease and recognition

Henderson's stoic approach to

Deep Brain Stimulation which improved his mobility.[7]

He was appointed

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to the culinary arts.[13]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Fergus Henderson".
  2. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 31 July 2014. p. 33.
  3. ^ Lewis, Helen (16 November 2011). "The NS Interview: Fergus Henderson, chef at St John". Britain's Current Affairs & Politics Magazine. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  4. ^ "At home: Fergus Henderson". Financial Times. 7 September 2017. Archived from the original on 11 December 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  5. ^ John Heilpern (October 2010). "Out to Lunch with Fergus Henderson". Vanity Fair.
  6. ^ Lewis, Tim; Hind, John (19 March 2017). "How hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children?". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  7. ^ a b Rachel Cooke (19 August 2012). "Margot Henderson: British food's best-kept secret". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  8. ^ "New Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2009". Retrieved 18 January 2009.[permanent dead link]
  9. ISBN 0-7475-7257-7
    .
  10. ^ Douglas, Ian, The Daily Telegraph (25 October 2004). Swine of the Times
  11. ^ Kuhn, Kerstin, caterersearch.com (9 October 2009)St John Team to Launch Hotel in London's West End
  12. ^ "Fergus Henderson: 'They drilled into my skull. Now I can cook again'". The Guardian. 26 February 2006.
  13. ^ "No. 63218". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2020. p. N12.

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