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Chiara Tomasoni Biography – Chiara Tomasoni Wiki
Chiara Tomasoni is a chef and contestant on MasterChef: The Professionals 2024. She is currently a sous chef and teacher at River Cottage in Devon. Originally from Bologna, Italy, Chiara moved to the UK at the age of 16.
Chiara studied Journalism at Sussex University. While studying she set up her own catering company which she ran throughout her degree, providing healthy ready meals for local businesses. Driven by a passion for sustainability within the food and farming industry she made the leap into food after completing her degree.
After a couple years of private cheffing, Chiara started working on an organic farm at River Cottage in Devon – beginning as a commis and has worked up to their Sous Chef. She still works there now, both teaching and cooking for various farm to table dining events.
Her style of cooking is “artisanal, waste-saving and SLOW (sustainable, local, organic, wild).” She added: “I love the idea of sticking to tradition as much as I adore just expanding and developing by borrowing from other chefs, from different cultures and using innovative techniques.”
Chiara Tomasoni Age
Chiara Tomasoni was born and raised in Bologna, Italy. She is 24 years old.
Chiara Tomasoni Family
Chef Chiara Tomasoni grew up in Bologna, Italy with her parents and sister Sofia Tomasoni.
Chiara Tomasoni Partner
MasterChef: The Professionals 2024 contestant Chiara Tomasoni lives in rural Devon with her partner Connor Reed, who is also a chef.
Chiara Tomasoni MasterChef: The Professionals
Chiara Tomasoni is a contestant on MasterChef: The Professionals 2024 on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. She is one of the last four chefs taking part in the final week of the heats of the competition alongside Peter, Remi and Sophie Archer.
Chiara entered MasterChef: The Professionals to discover more about herself as a chef. She told the BBC: “This is as much about discovering more about myself as a chef and improving myself, than it is about winning the title! I’m doing this to challenge myself and share my passion about sustainable food with the world.”
Inspiration
Chiara was inspired to become a chef by her great-grandma in Bologna, Italy. She told the BBC: “For me, cooking started with rolling out tortellini with my great-grandma in Bologna, where I was born and raised. It evolved into cooking for my family on a low budget with rarely anything much in the fridge. Then my passion for food grew further when I moved to this country at 16, leaving my family behind. My drive for fighting food waste (in both hospitality and households), improving the availability of good food for the disadvantaged and food as a cure (both mentally and physically), were at the centre of every piece of content I produced during my academic years – both at college in the UK and during my degree in journalism.
“After graduating, it felt right to swap books for knives and officially do what I loved most. I set about feeding others, applying my learnings to food that people would actually eat and, hopefully, remember the story behind it.”
Chiara Tomasoni’s Instagram is @chiara__tomasoni.
