Using produce and recipes from across the country,
top chefs are to participate in a competition to create the perfect four course meal for a lunch celebrating the 80th
birthday of the Queen.
Fourteen chefs are to take part in the BBC's latest project - The Great British Menu.
Cookery experts will judge their creations as, over eight weeks, two chefs from each British region go
head-to-head with local produce and local recipes. The final menu will be voted for by the public. The four winners
will present their meal to the Queen and Prince Philip at a lunch on the 15th June.
Prue Leith, Matthew Fort and Oliver Peyton will decide which menu from each region or nation will go through to the public vote in the eighth and final week.
The series will be presented by broadcaster and former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond. There will be 40 30-minute episodes starting on 10 April 2006 to be shown on BBC2 Mondays to Fridays
The chefs taking part in the series will be:
- South East – Gary Rhodes, Atul Kochhar
- South West – John Burton-Race, Michael Caines
- Midlands and East – Antony Worrall Thompson, Galton Blackiston
- Wales – Angela Hartnett, Bryn Williams
- North – Marcus Wareing, Simon Rimmer
- Scotland – Nick Nairn, Tom Lewis
- Northern Ireland – Paul Rankin, Richard Corrigan
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