Top chef Gary Rhodes took time out from opening his new restaurant in Dorset to talk school dinners and gypsy tarts.

In the latest edition of our print edition -out Thursday - the food King looks back at his early years growing up in the Medway Towns, including an early sprout horror.

He said:“At school they forced you to eat these sprouts, and at that age I couldn’t abide them.

"And when you consider in that age, when they cooked sprouts until they were yellow, they stank and well, I did vomit.”