Ron, who celebrated his 100th birthday in January 2021, began his hospitality journey at the tender age of 15 at Westminster Technical Institute in 1936 before began his culinary career at the Waldorf Hotel and Claridge’s. He joined the Army Catering Corps at the outbreak of the Second World War, working his way up to the rank of Sergeant Instructor at the Army Catering School of Cookery.
After the war, he returned to Claridge’s and then worked in catering for industrial giant ICI. He then trained to become a teacher and was one of the founding members of Acton Hotel School, which would later move to a new location and become Ealing School of Hotel Keeping and Catering, and subsequently the University of West London. In 1978 he graduated with a BEd (Hons) from Garnett College.
Ron recognised along with fellow chef Victor Cesarani that there was a need for a dedicated cookery book for catering students… they would go on to produce two books; Practical Cookery and The Theory of Catering, both of which provide the basis of the curriculum taught today.
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