Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall, Holt in Morston, is Michelin starred and has 4 AA rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney. His unusual first name is a tribute to his relative Sir Francis Galton.^{[citation needed]}

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Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston in May 2010
Born	13 August 1962 Norfolk, England
Education	Hainford School Norfolk
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s) Morston Hall
Television show(s) Saturday Kitchen 10 Mile Menu Great British Menu
Award(s) won Chef of the Year Good Hotel Guide Hotel of Year
Website	http://www.galtonblackiston.co.uk/

Blackiston has never trained formally as a chef, instead gleaning experience on the job as he worked his way to head chef in his first job at the Miller Howe country hotel in the Lake District. Of his beginnings, Galton says:

As a cash strapped 17-year-old I set up a market stall in Rye selling home made cakes, biscuits and preserves. The range became known by the locals as 'Galton’s Goodies', was constantly sold out and I realised cooking was my future!

Blackiston represented the Midlands and East of England in the BBC's Great British Menu, knocking out celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson to gain a place in the final.[1] As of 2008, he is working on the television programme Food Poker.

Bibliography

Blackiston has published four books on cookery, with the fourth arriving in October 2017.

• Blackiston, Galton (2002). Cooking at Morston Hall. Navigator Guides. ISBN 1-903872-04-9.
• Blackiston, Galton (2006). A Return to Real Cooking. Navigator Guides. ISBN 1-903872-19-7.
• Blackiston, Galton (2009). Summertime. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1-905264-63-6.
• Blackiston, Galton (2017). Hook Line and Sinker: A Seafood Cook Book. Face. ISBN 978-0-955893-05-6.

References

External links

• Bio at BBC Food
• Galton Blackiston's official site
• Morston Hall Hotel
• Bio info at Waitrose.com review