Tomorrow (Wednesday 10th October) on BBC two at 8pm the first of the third season of the Great British Food Revival covering STRAWBERRIES with Michel Roux Jr and WATERCRESS with James Martin.
BBC’s critically acclaimed campaigning food series Great British Food Revival is back on BBC Two with 10 brand new episodes featuring 20 top chefs and cooks who are seizing on classic British ingredients that have fallen out of favour, and off our shopping lists.
Michel Roux Jr tracks down EM 1764, the British strawberry of the future and James Martin discovers sales have halved for watercress and campaigns for its revival.
In this first episode of the series Michelin starred chef, and host of Masterchef – The Professionals, Michel Roux Jr wants us to revive our tastebuds and be more discerning when it comes to the British strawberry. He serves up a blind taste test with Wimbledon strawberry aficionados Sue Barker, Andrew Castle and Tim Henman, and makes history with a charity that’s reviving the age-old practice of gleaning. And at East Malling Research Centre he uncovers the strawberry of the future….
Saturday Kitchen’s James Martin takes a ride on the mid Hants watercress railway line as he pleads the case for this once loved British product. He follows its historical trail to Covent Garden where he tries his hand as a watercress street seller, and finds out why this leafy salad is so good for us - from the only man in the country with a PhD in watercress.
