Valentine Warner – What to Eat Now

In the BBC2 programme, “What to Eat Now”, Valentine Warner takes us on a mouth-watering, content-rich and beautifully filmed journey through the best of autumnal food. He charts the growth of his favourite foods from their first stirrings as seeds through to fully grown foods. Natural history filming techniques will capture the life-cycle of everything from rabbit to mackerel to pumpkin. The programme then follows Valentine as he brings each ingredient back from the river, sea, woodland and field, shore or highland and launches it into ovens, pans and barbecues. He cooks 3-4 dishes in each episode, both indoors and out.VALENTINE WARNERValentine Warner trained as a portrait painter before putting down the brush to pick up the spoon.He worked in London restaurants for eight years under such chefs as Alastair Little and Rose Carrarini before setting up a private catering company, Green Pea. A passionate cook, he believes that a real understanding of ingredients, the producers involved and the natural history of ingredients contributes as much to the plate as the cooking itself. A very keen outdoors man, when not in the kitchen, he will be out with a basket or more probably, out fishing. In September 2008, Valentine presented his first hit series What to Eat Now, which saw him seeking out the best food and dishes that autumn has to offer. A second series of What to Eat Now in 2009 saw Valentine concentrating on summer’s seasonal bounty. He wrote two accompanying best-selling books to these series. In 2011, Val was a contributing chef to BBC2’s Great British Food Revival series and ITV1’s Love Your Garden series with Alan Titchmarsh. He also presented his own series, Valentine Warner: Coast to Coast, on the Good Food Channel in summer 2011, where he travelled the country fishing and cooking his catch.