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For the cohort of cooks who frog-marched British food towards some sort of modernity three decades ago – Simon Hopkinson; Marco Pierre White, Rowley Leigh, Angela Hartnett, Nico Ladenis, Gordon Ramsay, Jeremy Lee, Raymond Blanc – there was only one Irish chef who mattered, and that Irish chef was Paul Flynn.
As these hungry chefs chased stars, Flynn was …