Michael Sampson trained as a chef at ALMA school of Italian cuisine in the north of Italy and has been living and working in Sicily for over a decade. He has worked at the Gambero Rosso cookery school in Palermo, was head chef and teacher at the Anna Tasca Lanza cookery school in central Sicily, and now runs The Sicilian Pantry cookery school in Palermo's historical centre where he teaches daily cooking lessons covering many traditional Sicilian dishes with guests from all over the world.