"It's always darkest before the dawn"
Michael Quinn & Ark Global Media
UK
Caterer & Hotelkeeper 2001 Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares
"From the Ritz to Skid Row" - Guardian 2004
Scotland:
The Courier
Scotland Food & Drink
USA
From the Other Side of the Pond - Kevin Finch
New York Times - 2009
Australia
Canberra Times article, 2008
Read Cairnseye article
Read SWANTAFE media release (PDF)
Listen to ABC Radio interview (MP3)
Watch Cairns news video 2010
New Zealand
Michael is interviewed on TVNZ New Zealand (Print version)
From the archives - Michael the chef
In 1984 Michael was on Desert island discs, unfortunately a recording is not available but here is the introduction and the choices he made...
"Michael Quinn is the Head Chef at the Ritz Hotel; the first British Chef in the history of the hotel. His ambition was always to be a cook, so as soon as he left school he became an apprentice cook in Leeds, winning within five years a competition for the 1966 Top Apprentice Chef of Great Britain.
In conversation with Roy Plomley, he describes how he worked his way to the top via Claridge's and two country hotels, and he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island."
1. Booker T. & The MG's - Soul Limbo (Sig. Tune For Test Match Special)
2. Stanley Holloway - The Lion and Albert
3. The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill
4. Eric Clapton - Let It Grow
5. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Our House
6. Claude Debussy - Clair de lune (from Suite bergamasque)
7. Pink Floyd - Breathe In The Air
8. CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE Black Dyke Mills Band - North Country Fantasy
BOOK - Le Repertoire de la Cuisine by Louis Saulnier
LUXURY ITEM - Pair of waterwings