His birth mother was a Londoner and his birth father from the West Indies. He grew up in Exeter, the youngest of six children, adopted as a baby by Pat and Peter Caines.
after two weeks in his kitchen, you completely forgot about his disability.”įood&Drink Club Exclusive events, competitions, reviews & recipes Join now It was an inspiring sight, seeing him roll bread or make perfect raviolis. Irish chef James Sheridan, who worked with Caines at Gidleigh Park, says: “The skill he possesses in his one arm is simply extraordinary. Michael Caines: ‘I really enjoyed art as a kid and I realised that I just had to learn how to use my left hand’ Right-handed before the incident, he now has a state-of-the-art prosthesis and says that there is little he cannot do in the kitchen. “I really enjoyed art as a kid and I realised that I just had to learn how to use my left hand,” he says.Ĭaines was back at work part-time within two weeks, and full-time within a month. Key to opening his mind to possibilities at that tough time was a gesture by his father, who set up an easel and told him to try sketching with his left hand. That didn’t define me as a one-armed chef, it gave me a challenge which I overcame, and it shows anything is possible, if you put your mind to it.” Then you think, okay, there are reasons to want to survive. For the high-achieving 25-year-old newly in charge of a kitchen with a Michelin star that he desperately wanted to retain, life would never be the same again. It happened when he was driving back from his niece’s christening, having just taken on the job of head chef at Gidleigh Park, a luxury country house and restaurant in Devon.
Michael Caines, the Michelin-starred chef and hotelier, is talking about the road traffic accident 25 years ago that could have cost him his career, perhaps even his life. you’re hanging upside down in a car and you see a hand, lying there, and you look over and you see your arm’s gone.” I woke up on impact and I realised instantly what had happened.
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