Paul Rankin
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Paul Rankin is a celebrity chef from Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland.
He has been a regular chef on the BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook. In 1999 Rankin was the first chef from Northern Ireland to be awarded a Michelin Star. He has written five cookery books & runs The Rankin Group chain of restaurants & cafes, including Cayenne and Roscoff in Belfast. The cafes have recently undertaken a major financial restructuring with unsecured creditors receiving 14.3 pence in the pound to be paid within 18 months. Some cafes will be closed and some will continue to trade. His Canadian wife Jeanne introduced him to cooking and is co-owner of their business. They met in Greece while he was backpacking round the world. In September 2005 Jeanne publicly acknowledged that she had been heavily dependent upon morphine and other prescription drugs for the previous seven years, and had sought help in rehabilitation. In 2006 Rankin competed in the Northern Ireland heat of the BBC's Great British Menu, a competition to cook for the Queen on her 80th birthday.
In 2006, Paul appeared on The X Factor: Battle Of The Stars, along with fellow chefs Jean-Christophe Novelli, Aldo Zilli and Ross Burden.
The late Robbie Millar made his name while working at Roscoff.
[edit] Books
- Hot Food (1997)
- Gourmet Ireland (1997)
- Gourmet Ireland 2 (1998)
- Ideal Home Cooking (1998)
- New Irish Cookery (2005)
