About Us
“All my spare cash was spent eating out in the name of research!”
Lucie
Lucie
…is a cook and caterer who began her career in restaurants and working on yachts, followed by a stint in the events industry before opening her own hugely successful award winning restaurant in Oxfordshire, The Milk Shed, which she ran for 10 years.
During this time she was lucky enough to be involved with numerous food festivals demonstrating her favourite dishes on stage, combining her 2 great loves, cooking and showing off. She also became a judge for the Great Taste Awards, the world’s largest and most trusted food and drink accreditation scheme, a huge honour and responsibility, and more importantly a great way of discovering amazing new products to use in her dishes.
She is a food obsessed lunatic who, to make up for missing her restaurant kitchen, wrote 100 recipes in 100 days during the first lockdown and you can find her ramblings at www.utterlystuffed.com. Always thinking about her next meal you can usually find her in an apron trying out some new flavour bomb she has seen, heard, dreamt of, or read about.
Mark
…is a chef with a wealth of experience having worked in the industry since his teens, and running his own event catering business for nearly 20 years cooking on a gargantuan scale at huge sporting events such as Wimbledon, The Open, Lords Cricket and hundreds of others from West End launches to the opening of the Channel Tunnel, to the greatest event ever – The London 2012 Olympics.
Despite all that he still loves cooking and can now be found in the Salty Shed in Padstow or in his garden kitchen cooking up a storm on the asado grill or in his beloved Gosney pizza oven, when he’s not dashing off to keep his hand in another crazy event somewhere.
He’s a genius with flavour and makes cooking incredible food look easy especially perfectly cooked meat and seafood, the most amazing sauces, and his custard is literally to die for!
Mark and Lucie have been in Cornwall since 2017 and began their new venture, Salty Shed, in Autumn 2023 because their love of cooking and hospitality means they’re still not ready to give it all up.
See more, including our lockdown food blog.