Val Warner - Getting Brutally Rejected By Rick Stein & Why 'Grandma Food' Is The Best In The World!

Today we’re honoured to be joined by a Chef who’s worked for the greats, a TV star who’s created 9 TV series of his own, an author who’s written 5 award wining cookbooks - but most importantly he’s Ben’s Hero - in the gloriously charming - Valentine Warner! We discuss his crazy upbringing which often saw him sat round the table debating with Harold Pinter whilst sampling his mums genius culinary creations, his tough years at school where he was bullied and called \'Fat Val\' which led him to skip sports in the afternoons and instead steal the local trout farmers fish before he was whipped within an inch of his life, his career as a chef working for Alistair Little and getting brutally rejected by Rick Stein, setting up his catering company which became famous in London and catered all the high end fashion parties of the 90s including an infamous incident with Kate Moss one evening at a Rimmel party, ruining a member of the royal families birthday with the worst cake ever in