{"id":391375,"date":"2025-09-02T07:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391375\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:59:12","slug":"hampshire-chef-who-retrained-with-left-hand-featured-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/391375\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire chef who retrained with left hand featured in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Hampshire chef at a hospitality group has been featured in a new book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matt Whitfield, executive chef of Ideal Collection, which includes Kimbridge Barn, Boathouse at Swanwick, The White Horse at Otterbourne and The Bugle in Hamble, was one of the chefs selected by photographer John Carey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The book highlights the pandemic&#8217;s effect on bars and restaurants and is published five years after the industry ground to a halt, closing their doors and adapting to new rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also shares Matt\u2019s personal journey battling a rare movement disorder called task-specific dystonia, which causes involuntary muscle spasms in his right hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matt\u2019s story is one of 180 featured in the book supporting the Burnt Chef Project (Image: Briscoe PR)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25415892.harry-potter-cocktail-bar-owners-look-open-second-magical-venue\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:READ MORE:\u00a0Harry Potter cocktail bar owners look to open second \u2018magical\u2019 venue;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">READ MORE:\u00a0Harry Potter cocktail bar owners look to open second \u2018magical\u2019 venue<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This forced him to re-educate himself to be able to use his left hand in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Matt said: &#8220;I\u2019d lost movement in my dominant hand and had to re-learn everything I knew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The book honours the hospitality sector\u2019s resilience during the pandemic, with proceeds promoting mental health awareness through The Burnt Chef Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hampshire chef at a hospitality group has been featured in a new book. Matt Whitfield, executive chef&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,135608,135610,135609,135607,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-391375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-executive-chef","11":"tag-hospitality-group","12":"tag-kimbridge-barn","13":"tag-matt-whitfield","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115133649265812806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}