Anton B Dougall is a Maltese chef, writer and television personality.
Background
Dougall was born in Cospicua and attended a few schools including MCAST college in Malta, Westminster College (disambiguation)|Westminster College in the United Kingdom and graduated from the Catering College, Leeds Polytechnic in the United Kingdom.
Career
Dougall started working as a Chef at the Villa Rosa Hotel in Malta in 1971 when he was 19 years old. He had his first television series on cooking and published his first cookery book the very same year called Tisjir Professjonali. In 1976 Dougall opened Klabb tat-Tisjir, a cookery club in Malta.
Ten years later, Dougall had his business in publishing and contract catering, was the owner of restaurants and a hotelier.
Dougall hosted a series of 120, 45 minute cookery television episodes on the national Maltese station. Throughout his career, Dougall promoted Maltese food in Europe (including London, Paris and Italy) and North Africa.
He currently has a guest spot on 2 different local television stations and various radio talk shows including a guest spot on RTK every Friday, something he has been doing the past 15 years. Dougall was the Chef Patron for state banquets during the Presidency of Anton Buttigieg and Agatha Barbara.
Membership
He is member of the Hotel and Catering Institute, the Royal Society of Health, Contract Caterers Association, Association Culinaire Francaise and Cuochi Italiani.