From London, Milla is a self-confessed cooking obsessive. She thinks English cooking is underrated and would love to write recipes books.
Age: 24 years old
Lives: Pimlico, London
Work: Corporate Hospitality
Family: Single
Favourite dish: Christmas Roast Goose
If you were a food what would you be?: Hollandaise sauce. Cos’ it’s yummy and lardy.
Favourite chef?: Nigel Slater. He is brilliant to watch and gets stuck in. He absolutely loves it.
Best Meal ever?: A place called Dali’s near Sydney. I had roast pheasant with pancetta. It stuck in my head.
Your perfect dinner guests?:
Jennifer Patterson as she was an amazing chef. Stephen Fry to make me laugh. Steve Jones as the totty.
What does Milla have to say about…
Cooking?
I was taught to cook partly by my mother and am partly self-taught, but I have no professional experience in the kitchen. I am obsessed with cooking. My mother always believed in getting kids involved in cooking; I started cooking aged 13. My friends at work take the mickey because I’m so into it, always talking about it. They think it’s hilarious.
English weather?
I am 100% English and proud of it. I don’t like it when people whinge about living in England. It rains, but so what? There’re a lot worse places to live in the world.
English food?
English food is extremely underrated and has an unjustified bad reputation. There isn’t a set national cuisine, we are open to outside influences because of the climate; you therefore have to include things from other cultures and countries. And what’s wrong with fish and chips anyway? If it’s done nicely it can be delicious…
What to cook?
Cooking is a ‘mood’ activity. Occasionally I cook just to eat, but mostly I cook because I want to. What I cook depends on the time of year, who I’m cooking for and what I fancy eating.
I basically eat and drink and chat for a living. That’s why I took the job…
Milla
I would love to work in a kitchen, creating recipes. Writing cookery books would be very satisfying because you’d be getting paid to experiment and perfect recipes and ideas. I have a lot of thinking time whilst riding my bike or jogging and I always think about food combinations and what I’d like to put together.