Self-educated at eating but certainly nowhere near as grand as Eton. I would have enjoyed all that fancy dress!

I'd been obsessed with cooking in inventive ways ..... first date with my now wife was when I cooked her a meal on my car engine ... all the distances were planned around steak "doneness" ie the number of miles for medium rare. Home to Epping Forest produced a great cooked picnic with a lovely smell of onions coming from the engine on the way.

ps. My standards are high as well!