Great British Menu 2021: the banquet
With each winning chef now chosen, the hard work begins! Howard Middleton lets us know how the champions of Great British Menu 2021 fared at the banquet. View more from this series:
Howard is a food writer and presenter from Sheffield, who first caught the publicâs attention on series four of The Great British Bake Off, going on to win their affection with his quirky style and love of unusual ingredients.
Some words of advice are easier to act upon than others. If youâre told your dish needs âmore sauceâ, âless pickleâ or âmore boozeâ, it should be reasonably straightforward. Increasing or decreasing its size is easily doable and, with a little consideration, you should even be able to ârethink your presentationâ or âfinesse itâ. However, how on earth do you begin to âdial upâ a monkfish if itâs not in your contacts list or âshow more
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Carol Voderman (Image: Neil Mockford/FilmMagic)
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Cambridge s Carol Voderman will appear in tonight s episode of the Great British Menu, which is in its finals week.
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On the front page of the first Guardian was an advert for the first vegetarian cookbook: “A NEW system of VEGETABLE COOKERY with an INTRODUCTION recommending abstinence from ANIMAL FOOD AND INTOXICATING LIQUORS.” The book was written anonymously by Martha Brotherton, wife of the campaigning minister of the Bible Christian Church, Joseph Brotherton, Salford’s first MP. They were later to become leading figures in the Vegetarian Society, which had its inaugural annual meeting in Manchester in 1848.
The Guardian attended the Vegetarian Society’s 1850 banquet and soiree, reporting in detail on the spread of mushroom pies, fritters, “omelets” and moulded sago, the floral arrangements, the philosophical beliefs of the guests that meat-eating led to aggression, and their disgust at the diseased meat on sale in London, Manchester, Oldham and Bolton. The 1874 soiree sounded lively, with a guest ranting about “blood lickers” and deman