An enthusiastic pocket-rocket from Malta who works tirelessly to transform school food and the education around it. Her mission is to instill in children a lifelong love of good food and so help reduce childhood obesity.
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Formerly Head Chef at leading London restaurant NOPI and author of cookbooks including ‘Salt Butter Bones’.
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In 2014, Nicole responded to a tweet by Henry Dimbleby asking for a chef to work in a Hackney school. She took the role, introducing cookery lessons including how to cook on fire pits and butchery.
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Having achieved a better work/life balance and huge job satisfaction, Nicole co-founded the charity Chefs in Schools in 2018.
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In 2020, The Hackney School of Food opened, which works to create the next generation of school chefs and increase education around health and nutrition.
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‍A champion for change, by the autumn of 2020, Chefs in Schools was providing 11,000 London students with fresh, nutritious and creative food. 
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‍Where Jamie Oliver’s famous campaign in 2005 aimed to alter things from the top, through government edict, Nicole has started from the bottom.