About Mike

What I’ve been up to and what I’m trying to get up to…

Mostly I’m a chef who is fascinated with our evolutionary food journey and how we’ve managed to balls it up so quickly.

I’m currently in East Greenland where I’m cheffing at a tiny hotel in the remote settlement of Tasiilaq. The main reason I’m here is to get back onto the incredible Inuit diet on which I did so well last year on the kayak trip. I’m about halfway so far and have lost almost 10kg in 30 days – which isn’t quite as rapid a weight loss but is still more than I was expecting. I had a series of extensive blood tests just before I left England and will get the same immediately on my return.
I will be making the results public after my Nutritional guru, Catherine Arnold (based in Manningtree) and Functional DX (the company behind the awesome tests) have gone through them.
I have some really exciting projects coming up – a lot of them spin offs from the Greenland adventure – the diet was incredible and a life changing experience .

I’m getting booked for talks and presentations at various venues and for organisations – drop me a line if you’d like me to come and talk about the expedition!

Did a talk and a food demo on stage at the amazing Ludlow Food Festival in September and have recently returned from Oaxaca, Mexico where I spoke about the Greenland trip, linking the food and diet element to thoughts and observations on humankind’s evolution with food over millennia. Followed by a tasting of surstromming, hakarl, some krauts I’d made with raw meat and also some meat and fish that had just been left out in the Mexican heat for a week. I really enjoy exploring that line (if there is a line) between fermented and rotten….

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