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In this episode Michelin starred chef and sports parent Tom Kitchin joins Gordon MacLelland to discuss high performance and sports parenting. Tom has lived experience as a parent going through the football academy journey and it was great to discuss how his own working life in high performance has influenced his ongoing approach with his four children.During the conversation they discuss amongst other things:The realities and complexities of being a sport parentKeeping as balanced as possible in our approach throughout the ups and downs of the journeyThe importance of parental role modelling in shaping key character traits in our young peopleUsing the big challenges and moments to help fire drive, desire and determinationThe art of picking the right time to have the best conversations with our childrenAdapting and changing our approach as our children get olderThe similarities between high performance sport and high performance restaurantsThe importance of helping to instil the right attitude and discipline and being honest with our childrenBuilding confidence in our young peopleThe vital role of nutrition in fuelling our young people to help them achieve their bestTom Kitchin opened his first restaurant The Kitchin, on Edinburgh's Leith waterfront in June 2006. The Kitchin was awarded an acclaimed Michelin Star just six months after opening - an accolade that has been retained now every year since. The award-winning restaurant has been consistently voted one the UK's best restaurants since its opening whilst Tom and his wife Michaela were also named ‘UK Restauranteurs of the Year' in 2019 at the prestigious UK Restaurant Awards.Tom has become a well-known face on television, having appeared on BBC's Saturday Kitchen, UKTV Food's Market Kitchen, in BBC2's successful series and BBC2's Remarkable Places to Eat.Tom has, on many occasions, joined some of the UK's most renowned chefs on the MasterChef FinalChef's Table panel as a judge.
In this week's pod, Craig catches up with Tom Kitchin. Tom is Scotland's youngest Michelin starred chef proprietor, having achieved a star aged only 29, and has become a well-known face on television, having appeared on BBC's Saturday Kitchen, UKTV Food's Market Kitchen and in BBC2's successful series, The Great British Menu.
Amanda will be appearing at the show on Sunday 3rd June. Amanda Lamb is one of the UK's most recognised lifestyle and property presenters. Her latest series, Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb is in it's third series on More4. Amanda also recently presented Beat My Build for Channel 4 and is probably best known as the presenter of the phenomenally successful A Place in the Sun which she presented for 5 years and as the face of Scottish Widows, a relationship that lasted for 10 years. Other TV accolades include You Deserve This House for Channel 4, My Flatpack Home and What the Neighbours Did for UKTV Home, Market Kitchen for UKTV, Family Supercooks for UKTV Food and she is also a regular on The Wright Stuff on Five. Amanda has a range of luggage and travel bags and accessories with QVC and writes regularly for A Place in the Sun Magazine as well as often speaking at live events including the Ideal Home Show and A Place in the Sun Live. Amanda has two young daughters and as a family loves nothing more than spending time in the Great British outdoors, she's passionate about Devon and Cornwall, loves coastal walking and all facets of property history.
BBC Good Food Show Summer & Gardeners' World Live - The NEC Birmingham 16 - 19 June 2016
John became a familiar face to TV audiences back in 1996 as the resident chef on ITV1's This Morning with Richard and Judy; a role in which he continued for four years. Since 2004 John has paired up with Gregg Wallace, handing out feedback, criticism and support to hundreds of hopefuls aiming to be crowned MasterChef (or indeed Celebrity MasterChef) and is also the judge and co-host of CBBC's Junior MasterChef. In 2011 John & Gregg also teamed up to guest host Have I Got News For You for BBC1. They are the first ever duo to co-host the satirical current affairs quiz. John's TV programmes regularly attract a huge audience. Indeed MasterChef's popularity has placed John & Gregg on the front cover of several magazines including the Radio Times and spawned three cookbooks to date (namely The MasterChef Cookbook, MasterChef At Home & MasterChef Kitchen Bible) and there's even an iPhone app for that! Sainsbury's Magazine readers even voted MasterChef as the Top TV Food Show of the Decade and it has been included in the Top Ten list of the most Sky Plussed shows of the year. John has also been a hit on Good Food (formerly UKTV Food). He teamed up with comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli for a 10-part series exploring the diverse culinary communities of multicultural Britain. New British Kitchen — Torode and Hardeep's Tour aired in May 2008 on UKTV Food. Within the first week the show was already proving a real success, overtaking the rest of the channel's ratings. A well-known food writer, John regularly contributes to olive and BBC Good Food magazines, as well as Radio Times and Red magazine and has supplied numerous articles for the Guardian, Mail and Observer newspapers. John and his MasterChef co-host are featured in the Daily Mail Weekend supplement every Saturday with their column John & Gregg's Side Dish.
BBC Good Food Show Summer / BBC Gardeners’ World Live - Birmingham NEC 13 - 16 June 2019
John became a familiar face to TV audiences back in 1996 as the resident chef on ITV1's This Morning with Richard and Judy; a role in which he continued for four years. Since 2004 John has paired up with Gregg Wallace, handing out feedback, criticism and support to hundreds of hopefuls aiming to be crowned MasterChef (or indeed Celebrity MasterChef) and is also the judge and co-host of CBBC's Junior MasterChef. In 2011 John & Gregg also teamed up to guest host Have I Got News For You for BBC1. They are the first ever duo to co-host the satirical current affairs quiz. John's TV programmes regularly attract a huge audience. Indeed MasterChef's popularity has placed John & Gregg on the front cover of several magazines including the Radio Times and spawned three cookbooks to date (namely The MasterChef Cookbook, MasterChef At Home & MasterChef Kitchen Bible) and there's even an iPhone app for that! Sainsbury's Magazine readers even voted MasterChef as the Top TV Food Show of the Decade and it has been included in the Top Ten list of the most Sky Plussed shows of the year. John has also been a hit on Good Food (formerly UKTV Food). He teamed up with comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli for a 10-part series exploring the diverse culinary communities of multicultural Britain. New British Kitchen — Torode and Hardeep's Tour aired in May 2008 on UKTV Food. Within the first week the show was already proving a real success, overtaking the rest of the channel's ratings. A well-known food writer, John regularly contributes to olive and BBC Good Food magazines, as well as Radio Times and Red magazine and has supplied numerous articles for the Guardian, Mail and Observer newspapers. John and his MasterChef co-host are featured in the Daily Mail Weekend supplement every Saturday with their column John & Gregg's Side Dish.
BBC Good Food Show Summer / BBC Gardeners’ World Live - Birmingham NEC 13 - 16 June 2019
Glyn has been attending the BBC Good Food Show for many years and this year is no exception, he will be there on Sunday the 16th June Referred to as a Yummy Brummie by Olive Magazine, 35 year old Glynn Purnell who recently left his position as Head Chef of Jessica’s Restaurant in Edgbaston to open his first solo venture, Purnell’s, is one of the country’s culinary rising stars. He started cooking professionally at the age of 14 when he took on an evening job after school and hasn’t looked back. Winning dozens of awards and critical accolades for his inspired, adventurous cooking, he has remained firmly rooted in his home city where his lifelong passion for local team, Birmingham City FC was matched by his desire to win the city’s first Michelin star, an ambition gained in January 2005 as Head Chef at Jessica’s Restaurant. His first appearance at the BBC Good Food Show was in 2005 and he has since appeared on UKTV Food’s Great Food Live programme as well as presenting a BBC1 documentary ‘Working The Sea’ in which he follows the journey that fish make from a Brixham trawler to his own restaurant kitchen. Last year he joined Gordon Ramsay’s panel of judges for the semi final and final of the Ramsay Scholarship 2006 held at the NEC as part of the BBC Good Food Show.
BBC Good Food Show Summer & Gardeners' World Live - The NEC Birmingham 16 - 19 June 2016
Glyn has been attending the BBC Good Food Show for many years and this year is no exception, he will be there on Sunday the 16th June Referred to as a Yummy Brummie by Olive Magazine, 35 year old Glynn Purnell who recently left his position as Head Chef of Jessica’s Restaurant in Edgbaston to open his first solo venture, Purnell’s, is one of the country’s culinary rising stars. He started cooking professionally at the age of 14 when he took on an evening job after school and hasn’t looked back. Winning dozens of awards and critical accolades for his inspired, adventurous cooking, he has remained firmly rooted in his home city where his lifelong passion for local team, Birmingham City FC was matched by his desire to win the city’s first Michelin star, an ambition gained in January 2005 as Head Chef at Jessica’s Restaurant. His first appearance at the BBC Good Food Show was in 2005 and he has since appeared on UKTV Food’s Great Food Live programme as well as presenting a BBC1 documentary ‘Working The Sea’ in which he follows the journey that fish make from a Brixham trawler to his own restaurant kitchen. Last year he joined Gordon Ramsay’s panel of judges for the semi final and final of the Ramsay Scholarship 2006 held at the NEC as part of the BBC Good Food Show.