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

‘I love working on something different every day,’ says Emma Crimmins

‘I love working on something different every day,’ says Emma Crimmins

In conversation with Mary McCarthy

Today at 06:30

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.