ABSTRACT

The BBC Food website lists more than 130 different programmes and a staggering number of celebrity chefs. Channel 4, the Good Food Channel and the Food Network also cater for almost every palette in food programming. Recipes, chef interviews, cooking entertainment, reality cooking, food and travel, masterclasses and competitions fill TV schedules as never before: MasterChef, Saturday Kitchen, The Great British Bake Off, Exploring China, Heston’s Fantastical Food, Rachel Allen: Bake!, Paul Hollywood’s Bread, Donna Hay: Fresh, Fast, Simple, You Gotta Eat Here, Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food, James Martin’s Food Map of Britain, Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course, Simon Hopkinson Cooks, Simply Italian, Hairy Bikers’ Best of British, Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery, Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast, Come Dine with Me, Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall, Jamie Oliver, Rick Stein, Lorraine Pascale, Madhur Jaffrey, Mary Berry, Nigel Slater, Nigella, Delia – to name a few!