Nick Nairn

Nick is a respected celebrity chef who became the youngest Scottish chef to win a Michelin star in the early 1990s. He was a regular chef on BBC's popular Ready Steady Cook from 1995 and presented the Wild Harvest and Island Harvest television programmes in the 1996 and 1997. He has written a number of books and columns for newspapers and magazines and has appeared on a range of television programmes, including a stint as the main presenter on the BBC Scotland programme Landward from 2007 to 2009. He was born and brought up in the village of Port of Menteith in Stirlingshire, and began his working life as a navigator in the merchant navy before enrolling at Glasgow's College of Nautical Studies. During his travels as a navigator, Nick developed a passion for food and the exotic dishes he'd experienced on his travels, and this proved to be the driving force behind his desire to teach himself to cook. In 1986 he opened his first restaurant, which won him the Scottish Field and Bollinge