2019 Chefs announced Now!

2019 Chef Line-up - on the Festival Park
Cookong up a storm to stimulate your taste buds

10.30 - Harrison Barraclough - The Yorkshire Chef. Yorkshire born and bred. It’s all about the best and freshest of local and seasonal produce.One of the youngest chefs in the UK to win an AA Rosette. Appeared on Master chef The Professionals 2016. A Chef consultant.

11.30 - Who Dares Cooks, Aracelly Waddington – sharing her Peruvian recipes, where cooking is fun and full of flavours, and behind almost every dish there is a cultural background, and a story to be told.


12.30 - Rob Green – UK Chef Ambassador for Seafish, the authority on seafood. A multi award winning chef and Chef consultant. Hook & Catch, is Rob’s amazing pop-up seafood restaurant.

1.30 - Middlesbrough College - Molly Shaher - Catering and Hospitality course leader and Chair of PACE (Professional Association of Catering Education) joined by one of her students, Staciee Aston

2.30 - Little Indian – Rani and Gee Singh. Sharing traditional family recipes, and adding their own style of cooking traditions, with unique blends of spices and herbs.

3.30 - Jack Baldwin - Winner of The Flavours of Herriot Country Awards Young Professional chef of the Year 2018, & Toque d’Or 2019 finalist. Apprentice chef at award winning The Bruce Arms, West Tanfield.

Our Fabulous Food Theatre MC
Irene Myers has been working with the Homegrown Food Festival since the beginning. Founder of her own PR/Business Development company, she champions a whole host of innovative food businesses, from award winning chefs and restaurants to producers and farmers - aand food writers too.
Chair of the Flavours of Herriot Country Awards.