The plumbing apprentice chats to Mary McCarthy about getting her start as a sous chef, being ‘addicted to licences’, and changing perceptions

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In conversation with Mary McCarthy
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Last week, I got a call from the first pastry chef I had worked with to say his toilet had broken.
Over 10 years ago, we worked in The Marker Dublin together. Never in a million years would I have imagined that, when I was 32, I would be helping him with a plumbing job.