“I was living as a student in my second year in Portsmouth, where a lot of the time the only thing that I could be bothered to make was pasta.” Which is the likelihood for most students at university. “I would eat the same old pasta day after day, never altering my recipe, until one day my roommate had had enough. “She hit me over the head with a recipe book and told me to learn how to cook something new,” he laughed with the twinkle I had noticed earlier dancing in his eyes. “But I am one who tends not to follow instructions so after flicking through the book a while I decided to just give it a go, I mean how hard could it be?” I nodded along, focusing on the containers of food once more. “I don’t know what happened that day but for a solid year after that I was inspired to try making my very own recipes with ingredients that I found around the house or were easy to gain access to.” “In my final year at university, I had realised that the subject I was studying [Business and Finance] wasn’t motivating me anymore. I wanted a change. “By this point I was already quite passionate about making pasta for myself and friends and had the crazy Idea one drunk night that I should leave my degree and open up a business dedicated to serving fresh and quirky pasta dishes. “The rest I think you can guess.” He slid over the first container with ‘cracker’ scribbled on the lid and nodded for me to try. What I tasted was simply too good to describe in words alone, a carnival of flavours with a firework of exploding spices took over my senses. It was divine. “This is one of the more recent recipes that I have been working on, it’s got a bit of a kick to it but the flavours are unreal.” He protruded a fold up fork out of his coat pocket and dug a forkful of it into his mouth. Each container was a different sensation, making it more obvious to me why people call him the Pasta Master. Catch The Pasta Master Sunday through Wednesday at Borough market stall 83 and Thursday to Saturday in Camden market
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