Extracted from The Farm Table by Julius Roberts (Ebury Press, £27). Photography by Elena Heatherwick. Read our interview with Julius here.
Julius Roberts: The Farm Table
06.10.2023 - 12:13 / theenglishgarden.co.uk / Niamh Collins
It’s a well-worn stereotype, but the tale of the ambitious twenty-something tends to be one set to the backdrop of a thrumming city. Where the buzz of cocktail bars, late-night restaurants, and thunderous commuter traffic on the Central line attracts energetic young things hungry to seize the opportunities a busy metropolis offers. Moving out of the city was long an indicator that fleeting youth had vanished: when the tube gave you a headache, when a bar crammed to it’s seams became irritating, when the peace of being away from the so-called ‘action’ was more alluring than the excitement of being in it. How refreshing then to meet with Julius Roberts, who, eight years ago at the tender age of 23 made a decision many of his peers may have considered ‘before his time’, to flee a bustling capital city life as a chef to start a new one as a self-taught, first-generation farmer in rural Suffolk, and by doing so, has inspired a generation to look at life, success, food and opportunity quite differently.
After toying around for a year post-graduation with a career as an artist, some words of wisdom from his mum encouraged Julius to pursue a career as a chef: ‘I’d been brought up in a house that loved food. The kitchen was the heart of our home. My parents were very cool about letting me have free reign in the kitchen. I couldn’t see how I could make a career as a sculptor work, and my mum said “you’ve always been into food. Just go and get a job at a restaurant and see what happens.”’
Starting at a local restaurant squeezing blue cheese dressing from bottles, Julius was poached by his manager to join the illustrious team at Noble Rot, now an award-winning restaurant, but at the time in its industrious infancy. It was a
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