The Aga Rangemaster Cookery Theatre
In the Fine Food Village, led by Martin Griffiths, the Demo Tent "Anchorman"
Each day, from about 11am to 5pm
With Lesley Waters on Friday, Rachel Green on Saturday, James Martin on Sunday, and Alan Coxon each day
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Our hugely popular and entertaining Cookery Theatre will have running programmes from 11 am until 5 pm every day. Our chefs have the use of a professionally equipped stage-set with sound sytems and repeater screens, sponsored by AGA Rangemaster.
Chefs being what they are, and service what it is, it is not possible to have the schedule until the last moment: the running order will be available at the tent on the day. But there will be plenty of time for questions and hopefully some interesting contributions from some of the exhibitors in the Food Village. We are grateful to our demonstrators, and hope that they don’t burn anything....
We shall be posting more details regularly in the run up to the Fair.
Our thanks too go to Martin Griffiths, who once again will mastermind, comp�re, and generally steer proceedings along some sort of orderly lines.
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Alan Coxon has long been a friend of ours at Chatsworth, and has sent us such a good picture we've made him a page of his own here.
James Martin has made a great impact since he began to appear on television in November 1996 and has rarely been off screen since. Currently he's gracing our screens as presenter of BBC 1's hugely successful Saturday Kitchen; regularly attracting viewers in excess of 3.5 million (nearly triple the amount of viewers when he 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.
James also runs the restaurant The Leeds Kitchen. Aptly named it offers the best of British food with a twist, created by James and his team.
He has authored numerous publications including: Masterclass, Great British Dinners, My Kitchen and Saturday Kitchen Best Bites and continues to make regular appearances around the world including at all of the BBC Good Food Shows incorporating London, Glasgow and Birmingham and attracts vast crowds for his demos in the super-theatres. In addition to the BBC Good Food Shows, he regularly appears at the Love Cooking Festivals and Gourmet Abu Dhabi and works with organisations such as the Food Standards Agency.
James’s licensing endeavours have been very successful – he already has a range of small electricals with Wahl, Cookware, Knives and Kitchen Textiles with Stellar/Horwoods and Serveware with Denby and has launched his own range of cake mixes and hampers. Have a look at his website here.
Rachel Green is the award-winning Lincolnshire chef, food campaigner and farmer’s daughter who will soon be appearing on Channel 4 alongside her old friend Jimmy Doherty; the programme will investigate the ethics of food manufacture in the UK. Rachel has produced two cookbooks, Sausages – Making the Most of the Great British Sausage and the Chatsworth Cookery Book; she is a contributor to numerous cookery and lifestyle magazines, a regular on TV and radio and demonstrates at both Divertimenti Cookery School and Denman WI College. Click here for her website.
Lesley Waters is well known for her regular television appearances on Ready Steady Cook, Great Food Live, and This Morning, and is a regular contributor to BBC Good Food Magazine and Asda Online magazine and has had her own column in 4 Girlz magazine. She runs her immensely popular cookery school in Dorset and is the face of Lidl. Lesley is also a former Head Tutor of Leith's School of Food & Wine, author of several cookery books, a qualified Fitness Instructor and a mother of two! Originally a Londoner born and bred ,she was quickly charmed by the beauty of the West Dorset area and inspired by the superb quality of the fresh local produce available right on her doorstep. She likes to cook seasonal food whenever possible and her simple, modern style creates dishes that are easy to recreate with stunning results. �
Lesley studied French Cuisine for three years at Ealing College, which included time as a chef at the Waldorf Hotel. During this training period, she won one gold, and two silver medals at Hotelympia and was awarded a scholarship to the Hotel Intercontinental, Dusseldorf. She joined Prue Leith's Restaurant and was quickly promoted to position of senior chef. She then worked as a freelance corporate chef and caterer for government officials before joining Leith's School of Food and Wine as an instructor, rising to head teacher. Here she perfected her cookery demonstration and food photography skills. She often represented British food at international cookery displays, taking as her theme 'good food for health's sake'.
She has worked in television since 1989. In addition to GMTV and Bazaar her work has included writing and presenting a series of network Cookery Club programmes for Chrysalis TV, being resident cook for Lifestyle Channel and working for UK Living. She teamed up with Malcolm Gluck to present the Superplonk video, the guide to 101 top supermarket wines, and has written nearly twenty books including Fifteen Minute Feasts and Four Seasons Cookery both BBC Books, Sainsbury's Quick and Easy Food for Friends, Classic Starters and Juice Up Your Energy Levels both for Orion, The Essential Pasta Book for Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Broader Than Beans, Cooler Than Chillies, New To Cooking and Healthy Food. She also launched a series of paperback cookbooks with food retailer Julian Graves. In addition to her book writing, Lesley is always in demand for her food journalism.
Martin Griffiths was born in Liverpool and moved to Colwyn Bay in his teens, where he was a schoolboy champion of Wales racing sailing dinghies.�He also raced “Hot Rod” Bangers and Classic Cars.�Trained at Llandrillo, he was acclaimed “Best Student of the Year”, and has worked at the Atlantic Towers Hotel in Liverpool, the Noake Hotel in St Albans, the Compleat Angler in Marlow, the Izaak Walton Hotel, Dovedale, and the Monk Fryston Hotel – amongst others.�He lives in Ashbourne, enjoys all styles of international cuisine, and his own preference is for simple foods cooked well, where the flavours speak for themselves.
If Martin demonstrates he will be deciding what to do on the hoof, as he will be using ingredients from the Fine Food Village and Chatsworth Shops at the Fair!
A full list of the exhibitors in the Fine Food Village can be found here