BBC Good Food Show Summer - 15th - 18th June 2023 - NEC Birmingham - Show Interviews

Mike Reid - Chef and restaurateur - 17 June 2023

Peter Schaebbicke - Botree Farms Cambodian Pepper - 17th June 2023

Abi Kendall - The Cornish Larder - 17 June 2023

Kevin Edge - Barbecue Expert - 17th June 2023

Grant Hedley - Great English Wines - 16 June 2023

Katy Truss - Condiments for BBQs and outdoor eating

Razan Alsous - Squeeky Cheese - 16 June 2023

Neil Reader - Rossmore Oysters - 16 June 2023

Paul Ainsworth - No6 Restaurant Padstow - 15 June 2023

Nadiya Hussain - Baker and author on the Big Kitchen Stage -  - 15th June 2023

You can catch Michel cooking live in the Big Kitchen on Friday 16th June at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Michel Roux was born in 1960 in Pembury, Kent, where his father Albert Roux worked as a private chef for the Cazalet family. His earliest food memories are the smells of the Fairlawne kitchen – pastry, sugar caramelizing and stews – where he played under the table while his father and mother Monique prepared the meals.After deciding to follow in his father’s footsteps, he left school at 16 for the first of several challenging apprenticeships at Maître Patissier, Hellegouarche in Paris from 1976 to 1979. He was then Commis de Cuisine at Alain Chapel’s signature restaurant at Mionay near Lyon, Michel’s biggest influence. His military service was spent in the kitchens at the Elysée Palace at the time of Presidents Giscard d’Estaing and François Mitterrand. He also spent time at Boucherie Lamartine and Charcuterie Mothu in Paris, and the Gavers Restaurant in London.

You can catch Chris hosting the Summer Kitchen at BBC Good Food Show Summer and he will also be at BBC Good Food Festival 2023!Chris Bavin is so full of character he was born to be on TV. After a TV production company first stumbled across him in 2011 he has gone from strength to strength and is currently co-presenting his fourth series of BBC1’s hugely successful series Eat Well For Less? With Gregg Wallace. The show has had incredible ratings across its first three series with the next two to be aired later on this year.In addition to Eat Well for Less, Chris has presented Tomorrow’s Food with Dara O’Brian, The Truth about Meat and he is co-presenter of BBC1’s returning series Food: truth or scare with Gloria Hunniford.

Craig and Shaun McAnuffYou can catch Craig and Shaun cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Friday 16th June, at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Popular food influencer brothers from London, Craig and Shaun, launched ‘Original Flava’ in 2016 to teach people how to cook Caribbean food via easy and tasty recipes for everyone!Taught how to cook by their Jamaican Grandmother & Mother, their online success has now seen them sign to Bloomsbury publishing, gaining over 800,000 followers online and produce an Amazon number one best-selling cookbook. This is all after they produced a popular self-published book by themselves in 2017, after a successful crowd funding campaign. The boys were raised in a challenging area in South London, surrounded by crime. They now use this to inspire other young people with workshops at Schools.

You can catch Chris cooking live on the Summer Kitchen at BBC Good Food Show Summer on Friday 16 June, and the Festival Kitchen on Friday 18 August at the BBC Good Food Festival 2023! Chris Baber is a chef on a mission to make cooking easy with his delicious, fuss-free recipes. His debut cookbook, Easy, was published in April 2022 and is filled with 96 recipes for meals that anyone can make, from Spicy Prawn Tostadas to Summer Strawberry and Raspberry Crumble.

You can catch Kwoklyn cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Thursday 15th June at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023!Kwoklyn Wan is a worldwide bestselling author, TV chef, martial arts expert and presenter. In 2018 Kwoklyn made his TV debut on ITV’s This Morning and he’s now regularly cooking up a storm on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch.With the four cookbooks already under his belt (Kwoklyn’s Chinese Takeaway Cookbook; The Veggie Chinese Takeaway Cookbook; Chinese Takeaway in 5; 10 Minute Chinese Takeaway), Kwoklyn has regularly topped the Amazon book charts and sold copies across the UK, Europe, US and Australia. His books have also been translated for readers in the Netherlands and Estonia.

You can catch Ching cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Friday 16th June at BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023!Ching-He Huang MBE is an International Emmy nominated, Award winning TV chef & cookery author who has become an ambassador of Chinese cooking around the world. Ching received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020 list, for services to The Culinary Arts.Born in Taiwan, raised in South Africa and U.K., cookery was a vital connection between Ching and her Chinese heritage. Her creative food ethos is to use fresh, organic, and ethically sourced ingredients to create modern dishes with Chinese heritage, fusing tradition and innovation.

You can catch Crystelle cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Thursday 15th June at BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Crystelle Pereira is a 27-year old quick-witted cook and baker from London. Born in North London to Kenyan born, Portuguese-Goan parents, Crystelle loves sharing her Portuguese-Goans recipes. She stole the hearts of the nation in the Great British Bake Off (Channel 4 and Netflix USA, 2021).‘My Flavour Kitchen’ (Hachette) is Crystelle’s debut cook book, coming this Spring ’23.In December 2021, Vanity Fair named Crystelle as one of their Top Performances of 2021 alongside a whole host of Hollywood stars. She’s hosted live recipe creations on Good Morning America, The Today Show and ITV’s Lorraine. Crystelle has a loyal following of predominantly UK and US audiences. Her short-form Reels and TikToks amass hundreds of thousands of views.Crystelle speaks four languages and spent the past few years working in a top finance firm

James MartinYou can catch James cooking live in the Big Kitchen on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th November! You can also catch him at Let’s Talk Good Food Stage and at our book signing.James Martin made a great impact with his television debut in November ‘96 and has rarely been off screen since. He presented BBC1’s hugely successful Saturday Kitchen for 10 years; regularly attracting viewers in excess of 3.5 million. He was regularly on Ready Steady Cook (BBC2), and in 2006 reached the semi-finals of Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1).In 2008 James featured in prime time special The Real Italian Job (BBC2) where he lived his dream of racing in the exclusive Mille Miglia in Italy in a vintage sports car. With over 3.5 million viewers it cemented James’ role as a car enthusiast and expert. James had great success with his many series for UKTV, three series’ of Operation Hospital Food (BBC1), and as a judge on Junior Bake Off series 2. His most recent work includes Operation Meet the Street (BBC1) in 2014, Home Comforts, and new series The Box (BBC1) in 2015.

Dubbed the ‘Queen of Gluten-free’ by Nigella Lawson, Becky Excell is a multi Sunday Times best-selling author and gluten-free food writer with a following of over 700,000 across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Having started her food blog in 2013 as a place to share her recipes with friends and family, they quickly started to be exchanged amongst the online gluten-free community with high praise. Since then, she has dedicated her blog to sharing recipes that reunite gluten-free eaters with the foods they miss and crave the most, now with over 1 million readers visiting each month. She continues to help restore a sense of normality that, for so many, a gluten-free diet often takes away – one recipe at a time.Becky’s debut cookbook How to Make Anything Gluten Free was published in 2021 and became a Sunday Times best seller on release, featuring over 100+ recipes for everything from homemade pasta, fresh bread, authentic fakeaways, classic bakes and mouthwatering desserts.She followed this up with her second Sunday Times best-selling cookbook, How to Bake Anything Gluten Free, which delivered on the promise of turning the reader’s kitchen into their own personal gluten-free bakery. Her third book How to Plan Anything Gluten Free was released in March 2022, which claims to be ‘The ultimate gluten-free survival guide’ and once again became a Sunday Times best seller straight away. Her fourth book ‘Quick + Easy Gluten Free’ is released in August 2022You can find Becky across social media @beckyexcell sharing quick cooking and baking videos. Or visit her blog www.glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk.

Growing up in his parents’ guesthouse in Southampton, Paul Ainsworth was part of the hospitality industry from the very beginning. Watching and helping his parents at work, he developed a strong sense of hard work and determination to succeed. A passionate supporter of Cornish farmers, fishermen and artisanal producers, Paul’s passion for imaginative and flavour-packed cooking celebrates everything the region has to offer.