A BBC Saturday Kitchen presenter, an award-winning chef and a food content creator with millions of TikTok views will headline the Sunday cookery demonstration slots at this year’s Bishop Auckland Food Festival weekend.
The festival, organised by Durham County Council, pulled in an estimated 28,000 visitors last year and returns to the town on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April.
The Saturday chefs – BOSH! duo Henry Firth and Ian Theasby, Marcus Bean, and Dan Hunter – were confirmed earlier this month and now the Sunday line-up has been unveiled, starting with TV presenter, author, food writer and award-winning restauranteur, Matt Tebbutt.
Matt is known to many as the presenter of BBC shows Saturday Kitchen and Best Bites and his Food Unwrapped show is now in its eighth series.
He has written three cookery books featuring his favourite recipes and is a regular contributor to food and travel magazines.
“I know this is a big date in the town’s calendar and I’m really looking forward to meeting everyone in Bishop,” he said. “It’s a little more relaxed than Saturday Kitchen, that’s for sure!”
Matt will share Sunday’s stage with chef, author and entrepreneur, Cyrus Todiwala, a regular guest on BBC Saturday Kitchen and the James Martin Saturday Morning programme.
Cyrus founded his restaurant, Café Spice Namaste, in London in the 1990s, helping reshape Britain’s then limited expectations of Indian cuisine and inspiring generations of Indian chefs.
Today, Café Spice Namaste remains the longest running Michelin BIB restaurant in the world. He has written six cookbooks and is a staunch advocate of education and training, social responsibility, sustainability, buying British, the environment and healthy eating.
Completing Sunday’s line-up is food content creator, bestselling author and presenter, Meliz Berg.
Her first book, Meliz’s Kitchen, became an immediate Sunday Times number 1 bestseller when it was released in June 2022.
Her easy-to-follow recipes are full of addictive combinations of flavours and spices, highlighting a melting-pot of beautiful cuisines from across the Mediterranean, Balkans and Middle East.
Meliz, who has appeared on ITV This Morning and Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch, shares her unique and wholesome recipes on her ever-growing Instagram page, Meliz Cooks.
All three celebrity chefs will be wowing visitors with their mouth-watering food demonstrations on Sunday 21 April and they’ll be joined by crowd favourite and TV presenter Chris Bavin, who returns as host across both days.
Bishop Auckland's local community newspaper.
