An appetite for life and art

“You know when you go to a funeral and they say, oh he was the best person in the world and mostly it’s bull…t, well with Jan it’s true.” Lovable larriken Peter Russell Clarke talking about his wife Jan

Some people are just a delight to interview. Peter Russell Clarke is very candid and likes to deliver shocking one liners, many of which are not publishable. PRC phoned me for a chat a few times in the months that followed the publication of this story, in which he revealed that he had lived on the streets for a time during his youth. While most people think of him primarily as a chef, he is a very talented artist and writer with the gift of the gab, and his speech is as colourful as his life.

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