Market Kitchen

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Market Kitchen
Genre Cookery
Presented by Rachel Allen
Amanda Lamb
Matt Tebbutt
Tom Parker Bowles
Matthew Fort
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
Production
Executive producersNicola Moody
Janice Gabriel
Ben Adler
Patricia Llewellyn
ProducersLeila Salim, Ceri Elms, Jayne Hibbitt Smith, Adam Webb, Alan Boyle
Production locationsLondon, England
Production company Optomen
Original release
Network Good Food
ReleaseApril 2007 (2007-04) –
2010 (2010)

Market Kitchen is a British cookery television programme, made by Optomen, that premiered on the Good Food channel in 2007. [1] Presented by Rachel Allen, Amanda Lamb, Matt Tebbutt, Tom Parker Bowles and Matthew Fort, the programme concentrates on seasonal cooking and features visits to a local market to obtain seasonal produce. [1] The first series was presented from a customised kitchen in Borough Market and featured Tana Ramsay as one of its presenters. [2] [3] [ unreliable source? ]

Contents

In 2009, the programme incorporated the Local Food Hero competition, which had previously had its own series on UKTV Food. [4] [5] [6] It will feature the winner of a competition to find Britain's best pudding, launched by Christopher Biggins in April 2010. [7] [8] [9] In 2010, spin-off, Market Kitchen's: Big Adventure, aired on Good Food.

Penny Smith and Matt Tebbutt co-presented the programme's fourth season, Market Kitchen: Big Adventure, in 2010. Beginning to air on 18 October, there were 125 episodes. [10]

Reception

In a negative review, the Evening Standard said, "Given that the best food programme of the decade was axed to make way for Market Kitchen, the decision so far seems disastrously misguided. The show looks hastily made (I'm told they record five in two days), the location cameras are "hot" (over-exposed), the editing is appalling, the approach is far too London-centric, the prompted questions from members of the public serve no purpose, and the scores of negative postings on UKTV Food's message boards suggest that the channel has made a very serious mistake indeed." [11] Of the programme, Western Daily Press wrote, "this is UKTV Food's crass successor to the outstandingly good Great Food Live - which it scrapped, inexplicably". [12]

In a positive review, The Australian 's Graeme Blundell called the show "entertaining, informative, interactive and presented by highly literate foodies, chefs and food writers". [13] Keith Austin of The Sydney Morning Herald penned a favourable review, writing, "Certainly not the sexiest cooking show around but to my mind this is one of the most approachable and least up itself. With London's foodie central Borough Market as the backdrop, the show is a comforting mish-mash of recipes cooked up from scratch, food tastings, celebrity guest chefs and a front-of-house team who, quite literally, know their onions." [14]

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  2. ↑ "Tana Ramsay serves up own TV show". BBC. 12 December 2006. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Marsden, Rhodri (22 November 2007). "Market Kitchen". Dish of the Day. Radio Times . Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  4. ↑ "Market Kitchen's Local Food Heroes 2009". Good Food . Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  5. ↑ "Local Food Hero 2009 regional winners and finalists". Good Food . Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  6. ↑ "Local Food Hero 2009 winner - The Dinner Ladies". Good Food . Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  7. ↑ "Britain's Best Pudding". BBC. 29 April 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  8. ↑ Fletcher, Alex (29 April 2010). "Biggins hunts for Britain's best pudding". Digital Spy . Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  9. ↑ "Britain's Best Pud competition". Good Food . Retrieved 6 June 2010.
  10. ↑ Sweney, Mark (9 September 2010). "Penny Smith to co-present Market Kitchen". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  11. ↑ "Evening Standard: Soggy jokes and a stale format leave nasty taste". Evening Standard . 23 April 2007. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
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