Virtual Food Festival #2 [Sunday 3rd May]

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The 2nd Virtual Food Festival

After the amazing response of the 1st festival and the huge success of the fringe event. We are proud to be bringing live to your homes, another food packed, all-day event featuring some of the country’s top chefs and food experts. They will be cooking some fantastic dishes from their home kitchens whilst championing their local food producers and suppliers.

The Schedule

See the exciting line up below. There will be appearances throughout the day from other chefs and foodies, including wine pairings from Mike from BinTwo and Charlie Stein from Rick Stein Restaurants. Enjoy!

Steve Lamb – Presenter

@lambposts

Steven Lamb is a curing & smoking expert, teacher, presenter, culinary consultant and award-winning author

Rick Stein – 9 am

@chefrickstein

Rick Stein CBE is an English chef, restaurateur, cookery book author and television presenter. He has written over 20 cookery books, an autobiography and made over 30 cookery programmes.

Kathy Slack – 10 am

@gluts_gluttony

Kathy is an award-winning food writer, supper club host and cookery teacher who grows her own ingredients from her kitchen garden in the Cotswolds.

Mitch Tonks, Johnny Murt and Ross Geach discuss the future of buying fish – 11 am

@mitchseafood

Mitch is a highly acclaimed award-winning seafood restaurateur, food writer and supporter of fishing and the industry.

@padstowkitchengarden

Founder of the Virtual Food Festival, former Stein’s head chef Ross Geach is owner and head grower at Padstow Kitchen Garden, which supplies vegetables to some of the finest restaurants in Cornwall and beyond.

@murts_shellfish

Fishing from Padstow for four generations, we currently have 3 vessels targeting lobster, crab and spider crab out of the pristine waters of north Cornwall. Our vessels are very low impact, inshore vessels of under 25 feet long, each worked single-handedly.

Mark Hix – 12 pm

@markehix

Hix is a restaurateur known for his original British gastronomy.

Gizzi Erskine – 1 pm

@gizzierskine

Chef & award-winning food writer

Stephen Hendry – 2 pm

@s_hendry775

7 times world snooker champion.

Dr Polly Russel: Look into the history of British food – 3 pm

@the_history_cook

Food historian based at British Library; write the History Cook column for Saturday Financial Times Magazine; presenter on BBC2 series Back in Time

Jack Stein: Look into the history of British food – 3 pm

@jacksteinchef

As a chef with over 15 years’ experience and countless more exploring the culinary world, Jack has been inspired by the excitement of different cuisines and flavours. He’s combined the gastronomic memories collected on his travels with his passion for the best of British produce to develop his own style of cookery.

Sophie Michell – 4 pm

@sophiemichell

Sophie Michell is one of the most talented young chefs on UK television. She co-presented “Cook Yourself Thin” and has appeared on many other popular food shows.

Nathan Outlaw – 5pm

@nathanoutlaw

Nathan Outlaw is an English professional chef who has worked previously with television chef Rick Stein. He now runs his self-titled two Michelin star restaurant, Restaurant Nathan Outlaw, in Port Isaac, Cornwall. He has appeared on television shows such as BBC’s Great British Menu and Saturday Kitchen.

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