Neven Maguire

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Neven Maguire
Born (1973-12-01) 1 December 1973 (age 50)
Blacklion, County Cavan, Ireland
Education Enniskillen Campus CAFRE [1]
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
Television show(s)
  • 10 of the Best
    Neven Cooks
    Cooking with Love
    Neven's Food from the Sun
Website http://www.macneanrestaurant.com

Neven Maguire is an Irish celebrity chef and television personality from Blacklion, County Cavan. He is also the head chef and proprietor of the MacNean House and Restaurant.

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Maguire has published and launched several cookbooks and features regularly on television and radio in his native country. He writes a weekly column in the Irish Farmers Journal .

Biography

Neven Maguire was born to Joe and Vera Maguire. [1] He began cooking at the age of twelve in the kitchen of his family restaurant, MacNean's in Blacklion, County Cavan. [1]

The restaurant, purchased by his father, Joe, in 1969, would be greatly in the sun"/> He took over the business as Head Chef and Proprietor in 2003. [2]

He attended Enniskillen College of Food. [1]

Upon graduating from college, Maguire worked in several Michelin starred restaurants in Europe. He commenced his overseas career in Berlin. [1] He also worked in Roscoff Restaurant, Belfast, Northern Ireland (1 Michelin star), The Grand Hotel Restaurant, Berlin, Germany (2 Michelin stars), Lea Linster Restaurant, Luxembourg (2 Michelin stars) and Arzak Restaurant, San Sebastian, Spain (3 Michelin stars).

Neven and his wife, Amelda, [3] are the parents of twins. [4] Amelda nearly died during labour after her heart failed. [5]

He is a practising Roman Catholic. [6]

Media work

Maguire is a regular contributor to The Marian Finucane Show on RTÉ Radio 1 and also writes a weekly column and recipe in the Irish Farmers Journal . He has contributed recipes to the Mayo Advertiser . [7] In 2009, he performed at the National Ploughing Championships in County Kildare at a stand sponsored by the newspaper. [8] [9] He has made television appearances on Tubridy Tonight , The Late Late Show , Nationwide , Podge and Rodge and The Restaurant .

Neven was Resident Chef on Open House television series from 1998 until 2004. He has also featured in a number of other television programmes including 10 of the Best; Neven Cooks, a 6-part series which is broadcast in South Africa, Australia and on Food Network; Cook with Love, a documentary on his participation in the World Cooking Competition in Lyon in 2002 and Neven's Food from the Sun. [10] Maguire is currently featured on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television network, Create TV where he hosts a cooking show entitled Neven Maguire: Home Chef.

Books

Neven has published several books:

He launched a cookbook for those with Parkinson's disease for the Parkinson's Association of Ireland. [11] [12]

Magazine cover with Georgia Salpa

Maguire and Salpa on the cover of Food & Wine in August 2009 Neven Maquire and Georgia Salpa on the cover of Food & Wine.jpeg
Maguire and Salpa on the cover of Food & Wine in August 2009

In August of 2009 Maguire appeared alongside the bikini-wearing model Georgia Salpa and a plate of food on the cover of Food & Wine magazine. [13] A national radio debate on Liveline saw feminists object to the treatment of Salpa and the magazine's publisher apologised and admitted it had been an error which had occurred whilst she had been absent from work. [14]

One caller suggested the photos were "evidence of a pernicious heteronormativity", whilst another complained that "women are here to please men and we're supposed to have these perfect bodies". [14] Another caller also expressed disappointment: "I really don't see what this [bikini model] has to do with the pic. And I'm really disappointed with the women that they partake in this as well". [13] Callers also expressed fears that the photos would lead to rape and the sexualisation of children. [14]

John Masterson, writing in the Irish Independent , accused Liveline of "manufacturing" the fight, called the radio show a "kangaroo-court" and questioned why football manager Giovanni Trapattoni ("who had one more model than Neven in the same paper") was not equally guilty according to the feminists. [15] However, Catherine O'Mahony, writing in The Sunday Business Post , praised the apology given by the magazine publisher as the whole affair was "pretty embarrassing for everyone connected with it". [16] [17] Model Nadia Forde furthered the controversy by saying "I don't think any chef would make it into a newspaper on his own", causing upset in the Irish cooking community and leading chef Derry Clarke to respond with the remark: "We [chefs] don't need models to make the papers. I have been in plenty of papers without the help of models". [13] Maguire was not paid for his involvement in the photo shoot and five other chefs were also present to be photographed. [15]

Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tom Doorley (22 November 2008). "Blacklion's day in the sun". The Irish Times . Retrieved 4 October 2009. 'THE RECESSION MUST be biting," a fellow diner said to be me as we sat down in MacNean House and Restaurant in Blacklion, Co Cavan. "Neven's waiting list is down to six months." [...] Neven has been cooking since the age of 12 when he started to help his mother Vera in the kitchen. Vera and her husband, the late Joe Maguire, bought the restaurant in 1969. This was unfortunate timing. The Northern troubles erupted and Blacklion suffered two bomb attacks, both which destroyed the front of the premises. The Maguires struggled on until 1976. Then they closed the restaurant and switched to the bed and breakfast business, for which there was considerable demand because of the swelling numbers of customs officials and Gardaí. By 1989, the restaurant was open again. Vera had kept her hand in by running a catering business, and Joe took over the front of house role. Neven, now aged 16, was so convinced that he wanted to cook that he left school after the Junior Cert and headed over the border to Fermanagh College in Enniskillen. His first overseas post was at a grand hotel in Berlin. "The chef took me over to this huge fridge and showed me the beef and the lamb. And he told me it was all Irish because Irish is best. It was a very proud moment for me," he recalls.
  2. ↑ Lorna Nolan (21 February 2009). "Recipe for success". Evening Herald . Retrieved 1 October 2009.
  3. ↑ "Neven Maguire, Guest Critic". RTÉ . Retrieved 2 October 2009.
  4. ↑ "Neven and wife welcome twins". RTÉ Ten. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "Chef Neven relives terrifying week". RTÉ Ten. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Armstrong, Maggie (10 October 2016). "Neven Maguire: 'I would love to lose a little bit of weight and I need to'". Irish Independent . Dublin. ISSN   0021-1222.
  7. ↑ "Some appetising delicacies from bordbia.ie". Mayo Advertiser. 25 September 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  8. ↑ Aideen Sheehan (21 September 2009). "Ministers challenged to meet 150,000 angry farmers at festival". Irish Independent . Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  9. ↑ Maeve McGovern (9 September 2009). "Athy gears up for the National Ploughing Championships". Leinster Leader. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  10. ↑ Lorna Nolan (21 February 2009). "Recipe for success". Evening Herald . Retrieved 1 October 2009.
  11. ↑ Joanne McCarthy (20 September 2009). "Cookbook for Parkinson's patients launched". Irish Health . Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  12. ↑ Eilish O'Regan (28 September 2009). "Diet book for sufferers of Parkinson's". Irish Independent . Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  13. 1 2 3 Lisa Marie Berry (13 August 2009). "Chef Derry stirs up bikini-babe picture storm". Evening Herald . Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  14. 1 2 3 Eilis O'Hanlon (16 August 2009). "Storm in a D-cup on the talkshow that time forgot". Irish Independent . Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  15. 1 2 John Masterson (16 August 2009). "Chef was right to refuse Joe's kangaroo-court summons". Irish Independent . Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  16. ↑ Catherine O'Mahony (16 August 2009). "MEDIA WORLD". The Sunday Business Post . Archived from the original on 20 September 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  17. ↑ Catherine O'Mahony (16 August 2009). "MEDIA WORLD". The Sunday Business Post . Retrieved 4 October 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  18. 1 2 Sarah Caden (17 May 2009). "Lewis and Maguire scoop up at awards". Irish Independent . Retrieved 4 October 2009.
  19. ↑ Marie-Claire Digby (11 April 2009). "Pressure Cookers". The Irish Times . Retrieved 4 October 2009. The clock is ticking, the judges are circling, pots are simmering on stoves. Work stations have become battle stations. It's the final of the Baileys/Euro-Toques young chef of the year. [...] Neven Maguire of MacNean House and Restaurant is being characteristically friendly, and reminiscing about his win in this competition, and how much it meant to him: "one of the best days of my life," he says, with conviction, and a great dollop of charm.
  20. ↑ "'MacNean Restaurant Awards'". Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
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