Chef's Essentials is the Livingetc series exploring your favorite chefs' go-to kitchen utensils and how they contribute to shaping their craft, so that you, too, can start collecting their treasured cookware — each piece uniting functionality and style — and hone your culinary art.
For some, food is a lifelong passion that begins early on. For others, a discovery that blooms as years pass. For Peckham-bred emerging chef Nathaniel Mortley, AKA NattyCanCook, it embodied a fresh start. A family affair from the get-go, he first tried his hand at cooking while supporting her aunt's cake-making business as a teenager, and went on to pursue his culinary call with a course at Lewisham College, later landing a job in the kitchens of the Oblix at The Shard and Jason Atherton's City Social.
