Performatively moral groups of foodies dish out recommendations for restaurants they love, and in the same breath chunter about how it must be so hard to work under such tough conditions. What I find shocking is that I have never had a single person make the leap that those same conditions are likely behind the meal they so enjoyed, literally not one, ever.

Mateo Austin is a new chef living in London. Chef’s Diaries shares extracts from his journals, documenting the beginning of his exciting career in professional kitchens.

Mateo gives us some cold, hard facts in this moths diary entry.