Chris is a professional home-taught chef with a passion for simple, tasty, family-friendly cooking and helping the nation become better home cooks.Taking on the role of head chef in the Baber household from the age of 6, food has always been a huge part of his life, and in 2016 he went on to win BBC One's popular cooking competition, Yes Chef, beating thousands of other entrants to the coveted prize.Chris is currently working with M&S Food, where he creates weekly, simple recipes for families and works closely with ITV to bring these to homes across the UK.Chris is passionate about improving everyone's ability to cook from scratch, and launched BBC's Blue Peter 'Cooking Club', an online initiative to encourage children of all ages to try new recipes.