She will compete in the Great British Menu, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Amber will take part in the South West heats which will broadcast from Tuesday 4th February at 8pm on BBC Two and iPlayer.
Amber, who is also an ambassador for the charity Chefs in Schools, will be taking on competitors from restaurants in a bid to advance through Great British Menu. The competition sees chefs compete for the chance to cook one course of a four-course banquet.
The theme for this series is ‘Great Britons’, with the winning dishes due to be served at a historical banquet at Blenheim Palace. Rather than feeding up to 1,000 students and staff a day, Amber will be serving food to the likes of Tom Kerridge, Ed Gamble and Lorna McNee.
Whilst working as a restaurant chef, Amber read about Chefs in Schools, a charity which serves up creative and innovative, fresh meals and snacks in dining halls across England – all with the aim of transforming child health and wellbeing.
In late 2023, Amber joined Christ’s College Finchley as head chef and senior food educator and retrained the kitchen team, introducing new menus and food education initiatives.
Amber said: “I loved working in fine dining, but I wanted a job that gives something back and invested in future generations, something that is very close to my heart. I wanted to use my skills to give back to communities and to do something that more closely aligned with my ethos.
“I feel privileged to be able to show that school chefs can be highly skilled and capable of creating top-level food by appearing on the Great British Menu. I am constantly learning in every role that I have taken and being a school chef is no different.
“Feeding hundreds of teenagers every day has given me a new appreciation and different perspective on food, creativity and nutrition - all of which I’ll be putting to good use in this competition.”
To find out more about the school food revolution, visit: www.chefsinschools.org.uk.