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Ricky Andalcio is an English chef, best known for owning two restaurants Zest Harbourside and Zest Restaurant, both in Whitehaven, Cumbria. He is most famous for cooking for Tony Blair in 2003, whilst he was prime minister. Andalcio believes in easy cooking and using local produce when cooking.
His professional career began after training in London, when he went to work under the Roux Brothers and the Langan's Brasserie.
Ricky's television and media career began when he appeared in the ITV Border series Raw Chefs, after which be hosted his own six-part series called A Taste for the Road, which saw him tour local regions on his motorbike, showcasing local produce. He is a regular contributor on BBC Radio Cumbria.
In 2013, Ricky starred in daytime ITV series Star Treatment , hosted by Jane McDonald. The show saw him cook top gourmet dishes. [1] He is a regular reporter for The One Show for the BBC.
Andalcio has a Venezuelan father and an Irish mother. He grew up in Bethnal Green in London. His father was a chef.
Nadia Sawalha is a British actress of Jordanian descent, television presenter, TV cook and vlogger known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders from 1997 to 1999. After winning the 2007 series of Celebrity MasterChef, she has continued to make appearances on cookery shows as a presenter and as a chef. Sawalha was one of the original presenters on the ITV daytime talk show Loose Women from its start in 1999 until 2002. She returned to the show in 2013 as a panelist after a presenter revamp.
Gordon James Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, writer and television personality. He was born in Johnstone, Scotland, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold a total of seven. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held three Michelin stars since 2001. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1998, Ramsay had become one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the UK by 2004.
Curtis Stone is an Australian celebrity chef, author and television personality, nicknamed "The Quiet Terminator" by fans following his performance on The Celebrity Apprentice 3.
Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson is an English restaurateur and celebrity chef, television presenter and radio broadcaster.
Gary Rhodes was an English restaurateur and television chef, known for his love of English cuisine and ingredients and for his distinctive spiked hair style. He fronted shows such as MasterChef, MasterChef USA, Hell's Kitchen, and his own series, Rhodes Around Britain. As well as owning several restaurants, Rhodes also had his own line of cookware and bread mixes. Rhodes went on to feature in the ITV1 programme Saturday Cooks, as well as the UKTV Food show Local Food Hero.
Marco Pierre White is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, and the enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene.
Jean-Christophe Novelli is a French celebrity chef.
James Martin is an English chef and television presenter, best known for his television work with the BBC and ITV.
James Tanner is an English chef and television personality, best known for co-owning the Tanners Restaurant in Plymouth and cooking on various TV programmes.
John Douglas Torode is an Australian celebrity chef. He moved to the UK in the 1990s and began working at Conran Group's restaurants. After first appearing on television on ITV's This Morning, he started presenting a revamped MasterChef on BBC One in 2005. He is a restaurateur; former owner of the Luxe and a second restaurant, Smiths of Smithfield. He has also written a number of cookbooks.
Paul Rankin is a celebrity chef from Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland. Rankin's parents moved back to Ballywalter, where he grew up, some time after he was born. This was stated when he was the subject of an episode of a short programme named Proud Parents on Channel 4, made in 2006. On the episode of Ready Steady Cook first broadcast on Tuesday 26 February 2008, he himself stated he was born in Scotland.
Atul Kochhar is an Indian-born, British based chef, restaurateur, and television personality. His unique talent has changed the way people perceive and experience Indian cuisine. Atul was one of the first two Indian chefs to receive a Michelin star, awarded in London in 2001 whilst at Tamarind. His contemporary style and love for traditional cooking led him to open his own restaurant Benares, which won him a second Michelin star in 2007. Since then he has opened numerous successful, award-winning restaurants; Sindhu and Hawkyns in Buckinghamshire and Indian Essence in Kent. In 2018, Atul left Benares to pursue other independent ventures, most recently Kanishka in Mayfair, London which opened March 2019 and another new London site has been announced. Kochhar makes regular appearances on television shows including Saturday Kitchen, Masterchef Goes Large,Great British Menu, BBC2's Million Pound Menu and Saturday Morning with James Martin. Additionally, Atul has written a number of successful cookbooks; Simple Indian; Fish, Indian Style; Curries of the World and 30 Minute Curries.
Hell's Kitchen is a British cookery reality show, aired on ITV, which featured prospective chefs competing with each other for a final prize. Four series aired between 2004 and 2009, three presented by Angus Deayton and the fourth and final series presented by Claudia Winkleman.
Mark Sargeant is an English Michelin starred chef and restaurateur from Larkfield, Kent.
Jun Tanaka is an American-born Japanese-British UK TV chef, best known for presenting Channel 4's Cooking It as well as appearing in Saturday Kitchen on BBC One. He was the third Grand Champion of the American competitive cooking show, Chopped.
Lisa Tamsin Faulkner is an English actor, presenter and celebrity chef.
Michel Albert Roux, known as Michel Roux Jr., is an English two-star Michelin chef at the London restaurant Le Gavroche.
Rajinder Tony Singh Kusbia, is a Scottish celebrity chef and restaurateur. He is best known for combining his love of Scottish produce with his arty, eclectic and accessible style of cooking.
Matthew Charles "Matt" Tebbutt is a British chef and television food presenter best known for presenting shows such as Channel 4's Food Unwrapped and Drop Down Menu, the BBC's Saturday Kitchen and the Good Food channel's Market Kitchen. Matt ran The Foxhunter in Nant-y-derry for many years with his wife, Lisa, but gave it up to focus on his TV career.
Lisa Goodwin-Allen is a British chef best known for being executive chef of the Michelin starred Northcote restaurant. She was also one of four winning chefs on season five of the BBC cooking show Great British Menu.