William Sitwell, wrote in these pages about finding 57-year-old Hix – whose eponymous London restaurants had made him a food-industry legend – selling fish and snacks out of a converted Chevrolet ambulance food truck, parked up next to the A35 near to his home town of Bridport.
That was Hix’s first bottom-rung-of-the-catering-ladder step in trying to put what he called his ‘annus horribilis’ behind him. ‘The article struck such a chord,’ he recalls. ‘We had loads of people at the truck afterwards who were so, so supportive.’Five months on, the various local ingredients he has assembled for his renaissance are coming nicely to the boil.
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