I am a regular contributor to web sites and work closely with local authorities in the advancement of healthy eating based on fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
I regularly appeared on the Jamie Owen programme on BBC Radio Wales where I cooked (live!) and discussed food issues and answered listeners’ questions. At Christmas 2007 I was suggesting ways to liven up the remnants of the seasonal feasting including a turkey stir-fry and fried Roman style stuffed dates.
At Christmas 2003, as part of the 25th celebrations of the station, I was the first prize in a competition. I visited a couple’s home and prepared and cooked them a three-course meal (ably assisted, I might add, by my wife Bernadette). I can remember their 5-year-old son enthusiastically tucking in and telling me his favourite food was, “carrots and mashed potato.” Oh, that more children thought like this!
On the BBC Radio Wales ‘phone-in I have been asked for my professional opinions on matters such as misleading food labelling and the high levels of salt found in processed food. Other Radio work has included a spot on an Easter Monday programme where we explored various uses for left over Easter Eggs!
While still at the Cider Press Restaurant in the 1990’s I was asked on more than one occasion by BBC Local Radio to produce a “menu” of dishes to be broadcast at the rate of one per evening. This actually involved cooking each dish while being recorded. A bizarre concept but it worked and enabled the interviewer to comment. The likes of mmmm!
I wrote my first newspaper article on food in 1993 and then continued to write a weekly column (as my then editor told me, “be as controversial as you like”) until 2002. I am currently writing occasional articles on all aspects of food for daily national and regional weekly newspapers. I have been commissioned to write an article for The Food Magazine on the anomalies of food labelling. Other articles are always in preparation.
(Please note. If you would like to read some of the articles I have written click here).
I have also been nominated for a Glenfiddich Food Writer’s
Award. Miscellaneous writing has included writing recipes for a leaflet produced
by the local EHO
advising consumers about the best way to avoid food poisoning when cooking
on a barbecue.