HOT OFF THE PASS

Now that Jamie Oliver’s all grown up, there’s a vacancy on the British food scene for a rosy-cheeked boy wonder. Tom Booton, new head chef at The Grill at The Dorchester in London, might be just the person to fill it. He’s young, he’s talented, and an Essex boy, with a line in banter that makes the original cheeky chappy seem shy and retiring.

Though just 26, Tom has been cooking professionally for 12 years. “Food started when I got sent on work experience at the age of 14,” he