The Farm To Feast winner has been loving all the culinary opportunities that have bubbled up, writes Áine Toner Ricky Robinson In the 20 months since he won the second series of Farm To Feast: Best Menu Wins , Ricky Robinson has undertaken things he had “never dreamed of”. “It’s all kind of happened organically. One thing leads to the next thing.
I’ve done things that I never dreamed I’d be doing — my own night in a restaurant, doing the pop-ups. “That was a real surreal moment. It went really well and I’ve enjoyed all of it: doing food demos at food fairs and the online library classes.
It’s all just been really fun and exciting.” Ricky was crowned the Farm To Feast winner in March 2023, one of seven competing amateur cooks. Telling this newspaper that he was “petrified” while filming, he found his feet once cooking and his confidence has continued to grow.
“It’s day and night,” he says. “I still have to push myself and it still doesn’t come naturally, the cooking does, but not the standing up in front of people. “I’m definitely a better cook, as well.
Writing my own recipes has really been a game-changer. Before, I would have followed a lot of recipes and cookbooks, but now I’m doing more of my own thing.” “It’s something I’m actually really enjoying,” he says of recipe writing.
“I have a food blog now where I do one recipe a week and people can subscribe to it and they get an email every Tuesday. People would send me .