Food Blogger Adam Purnell on 'sticking to your guns'

Adam’s twenties were spent cooking, job hopping, teaching, travelling, eating, partying and exploring. Working his way up in the world of Youth Work, he quickly found himself becoming a quote-on-quote "adult", buying a house with his girlfriend at the time and working his way up to head of year. However, after a few years, Adam realised that he wasn’t done with the hedonistic party -fuelled lifestyle yet and yearned to travel and explore more of the world. Realising that himself and his partner at the time wanted different things, they separated, and shortly afterwards Adam got made redundant.  Taking this redundancy as an opportunity, he used this time to go travelling around India and shortly afterwards South East Asia, where he discovered his love for food and new flavours. Upon returning to the UK he launched the Shropshire Food Lad blog and was crowned winner of Channel 4's cooking series Crazy Delicious. As if the stars aligned he also reunited with his former partner and the 2 of them started a family together. Adam’s thirst for life is almost as infectious as his delicious dishes on whoever is lucky enough to try them. His twenties just goes to show that time really is the best healer and that it always pays off to follow your gut. Our Favourite Millennial Minesweeper Quote this week was; ‘If you tell someone they can be anything and they turn out to be merely ordinary, that’s a pretty crushing feeling' - Alain de Botton Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.