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Rachel
Allen
Rachel
Allen was brought up in Dublin
and always loved cooking. She trained at the internationally reputed Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland,
where she still teaches.
Her philosophy on food is that good ingredients simply prepared will give great
results. Her food reflects the demands of her own lifestyle - busy working
mother entertaining at home producing simple food classics with her own
individual spin that comes from many years of working in an internationally
rated establishment.
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Mary
Berry
Judge
of this years Great
British Bake off.
MARY BERRY is the doyenne of family
cookery, and specialises in Aga cookery and cakes and desserts. She is a
regular contributor to TV and radio food programmes and has written over 50
best selling cookery books, including the classic Aga Cookbook and now teaches
Aga cookery courses at her home in Buckinghamshire.
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Lawrence Keogh
Lawrence Keogh is Head Chef at the renowned Roast restaurant located in London’s Borough Market
where he is committed to sourcing the freshest and best produce for the
restaurant’s daily menu. He has been in
the restaurant trade for more than 20 years and has previously held the
position of Head Chef at The Avenue, Bluebird and Quo Vadis, all in London.
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James
Martin
James
Martin has made a great impact since he began to appear on television in
November ‘96 and has rarely been off screen since. Currently he's gracing our
screens as presenter of BBC 1's hugely successful Saturday Kitchen
(this
will becoming live
from the show), regularly
attracting viewers in excess of 3.5 million (nearly triple the amount of
viewers when James inherited the show), it is one of the most popular weekend
shows with a phenomenal 32-35% audience share. He was a regular team member on Ready
Steady Cook (BBC 2) and
in Autumn 2006 gained a whole new army of fans with his new found prowess on
the dance floor in Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1) where he reached the
semi-finals.
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Paul
Rankin
Paul Rankin runs
the neighbourhood restaurant Cayenne in Belfast. Previously he ran
the very successful Roscoff, which was voted Restaurant of the Year in the BBC
Good Food Magazine's 1996 Awards and where he was awarded Ireland’s first Michelin star.
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Jo Wheatley
Jo Wheatley winner
of The Great Brisish
Baker Off 2011,
Jo has always
had a love of baking
since a very early age.
One of her
earliest memories is
of making jam tarts
with her Nan while standing
on an upturned bucket
by her Nan’s work surface.
For the past twenty-five
years Jo has been
a wife and a mother
and without realizing
it, extending
her knowledge and perfecting
her skills as a baker
daily, through cooking
and baking for her family
of three boys.
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