Last month in my article about the role of the nursery chef, I mentioned Jo Ingleby, winner of the 2015 BBC Food and Farming Cook of the Year Award. Jo is the chef at Redcliffe Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Bristol where she impressed the BBC judges with her ‘experimental cookery’ sessions for the under-fives. The previous year, centre head Elizabeth Carruthers had won the Local Hero category in the same awards for the food project that she set up to encourage young children to explore and experiment with food. When I saw that Jo and her colleagues were hosting an evening event to mark the end of her reign and to showcase their exciting concept of experimental cookery, I snapped up the chance.
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