Schools poaching top restaurant chefs

 Schools are recruiting Michelin award winning chefs as part of a new campaign backed by Prue Leith.

The initiative aims to lure chefs away from restaurants to start a new career as the head cook of a school. Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of the healthy fast-food chain Leon, had the idea to set up the Chefs in Schools charity after Nicole Pisani, the chef from Ottolenghi’s Soho restaurant NOPI, started working at his children’s primary school.

So far three schools in Hackney, east London, have taken on former chefs from high-end restaurants.