Galton Blackiston

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Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston, 22 10 2010.JPG
Galton Blackiston in May 2010
Born13 August 1962
Norfolk, England
EducationHainford School Norfolk
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
  • Morston Hall
Award(s) won
  • Chef of the Year
    Good Hotel Guide
    Hotel of Year
Website http://www.galtonblackiston.co.uk/

Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall, Holt in Morston, is Michelin starred and has 4 AA Rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney. His unusual first name is a tribute to his relative Sir Francis Galton.[ citation needed ]

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Blackiston has never trained formally as a chef. After leaving school at 16 to play cricket, he was encouraged by his mother to set up a market stall selling homemade baked goods, "Galton's Goodies". His first job in a restaurant was at John Tovey's Miller Howe country hotel in Windermere, the Lake District. [1]

In 2013, Blackiston started No 1 Cromer, a fish and chip shop in Cromer. [1] [2] [3]

Television

Blackiston represented the Midlands and East of England in the BBC's Great British Menu, [4] knocking out celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson to gain a place in the final. [5] In 2007, he appeared on the television programme Food Poker . [6]

Personal life

Blackiston supports Norwich City F.C. [7]

Bibliography

Blackiston has published four books on cookery, with the fourth arriving in October 2017.

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