Article: 'Farmed salmon . . . yuk, full of disease. Frankly, I'd rather eat a rat' - TV chef John Burton Race tells it like it is; RESTAURANTS EATING IN.(Features)

CHEF John Burton Race is a man who seems permanently set on simmer.

You can practically feel the steam rising from him as he vents his feelings on the decline of the British farming industry and the lack of home produced, local food featuring in supermarkets.

There's any number of other dislikes, such as "farmed salmon . . . yuk, full of disease. Frankly, I'd rather eat a rat." He rattles off his forthright views at breakneck speed and with considerable force, but is unapologetic because, he says: "I'm passionate about food. It's a subject you never stop learning about and I just want people to realise that 50% of good food is about the raw ingredients. The rest is ...

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