Peter Crome
1. Cast away on a desert island, what luxury would you take?
My CD player and as many recordings of opera as I was allowed
2. What was your first job in catering?
Trainee chef, Swan Hotel, Lavenham
3. What do you normally have for breakfast?
Cup of camomile tea and yoghurt
4. What do you do to relax?
Head for the nearest health club/spa
5. Tell us your most embarrassing moment
My first ever room service, in which I dripped the dinner all down myself
6. What ingredient do you hate most?
Nutmeg
7. Do you have a favourite film?
A Wonderful Life
8. What is your idea of a perfect day off?
At home with the family in Scotland
9. What is the best advice you have ever been given?
Do not pursue a career on stage
10. Which person gave you the greatest inspiration?
Peter Evans in 1968 at the Swan
11. When did you last cry, and why?
Probably watching A Wonderful Life
12. What two words best describe you?
Outgoing and ebullient
13. If not yourself, who would you rather have been?
Fritz Kreisler - I would play the violin better than I do today
14. Tell us a secret
My first name is not Peter!
15. What time do you get up/go to bed on a working day?
I rise at 6.15am and retire at about midnight
16. Can you count to 10 in more than one language and, if you can, which ones are they?
German and French
17. What irritates you most about hotels?
Hotels that are all decor and zero
personality
18. What is the most unusual food you have ever eaten and where did you eat it?
Whale blubber in 1978 at an
Icelandic dinner
19. Name one thing you could not do without
My family and my dog
20. What is your ideal holiday?
Anywhere with the family
21. What is the most frightening thing you have ever had to do?
Fall backwards off a filing cabinet
