Chef s Tales is a personal and professional memoir; a collection of anecdotes drawn from the author s career as a chef. Leaving behind roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, the grey skies of northern England and his beloved Leeds United ... a skinny young Yorkshire lad ... acquired his vocational skills in cooking, and went on to become an internationally-rated executive chef ... In the process he virtually travelled the world from Europe to North America and the Caribbean, from Hong Kong to China and Indonesia ... engaging life s colourful characters and surviving an endless stream of adventures.