Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott serves up fresh eco-cooking ideas
World famous chef shares proves you can eat well
while caring for the environment
Ainsley Harriott, best-selling food writer and one of the best known TV chefs, served up a spectacular combination of eco-friendly cuisine along with his trademark humour, during his live cooking class in Dubai on December 9th and 10th.
At his live cooking shows on December 9 and 10, Harriott demonstrated special recipes for the 2008 LG Global Home Chef Award using fresh, organic ingredients and innovative cooking appliances, including the LG SolarCUBE, a light wave oven.
The well-known chef is in Dubai to participate in the 2008 LG Global Home Chef Award, an international contest that is seeing aspiring chefs from eight countries –United States, Canada, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, South Africa, South Korea and India – participating for the top culinary honours.
During the competition, Ainsley Harriott will help contestants hone their cooking skills, and will serve on the judging panel.
“We are honoured to have so renowned a culinary expert as Ainsley Harriott on board for the 2008 LG Global Home Chef Award,” said Young Ha Lee, President and CEO of LG Electronics Digital Appliance Company. “Ainsley Harriot’s fresh, fun, accessible cuisine fits perfectly into the theme of this culinary event: healthy food meets energy-efficient and innovative cooking appliances.”
“The 2008 LG Global Home Chef Award recognizes innovative, nutritious and most of all, delicious recipes created by everyday people using LG cooking appliances. I’m very happy to be part of this unique cooking competition,” said Harriott. “These recipes reflect what I consider to be the essence of my food: diverse and delicious, yet easy to prepare and speedy to cook.”
Ainsley Harriott is probably the only celebrity chef who is instantly recognized simply by his first name. “Ainsley” can only mean Ainsley Harriott, who, after fifteen years as one of the world’s favourite TV chefs and presenters is something of a national institution in Britain. Best known for his 20 series of Ready Steady Cook, which continue to air on TV channels around the world, and with eight solo primetime cooking series under his belt, he has become the master of fresh, fun, accessible cuisine.
At age 16, Ainsley trained at Westminster College and embarked on a career in London’s top hotels and restaurants. He also started his own catering company. With over twenty years experience working in professional kitchens, Ainsley has a very wide understanding of his craft. The hotels and restaurants at which he honed his skills include The Dorchester, Brown’s, The Hilton, The Westbury, Café Pelican and Quaglino’s.
In the early 1990s, Ainsley was asked to present More Nosh, Less Dosh for BBC Radio 5 during one cricket season. Then, he became resident chef on BBC TV’s Good Morning With Anne And Nick. This in turn led to Ready Steady Cook and his TV career took off. Ready Steady Cook started airing in 1994.
Sixteen series and well over a thousand episodes later, it celebrated twelve happy years in 2006. When he became series host in 2000, the show gained a new lease of life and extra viewers. During 2009, the show will approach two thousand episodes.
Since 2000, Ainsley became popular on US TV channels with The Ainsley Harriott Show on NBC and Ready Set Cook, the US version of his UK show, for The Food Network.
Other television appearances include Can’t Cook Won’t Cook on BBC1; Ainsley’s Barbeque Bible on BBC; Ainsley’s Meals in Minutes; Party of A Lifetime; Ainsley’s Big Cook Out; The Hidden Camera Show; Gourmet Express; Off The Men; 50 Things To Eat Before You Die; City Hospital; The National Lottery Draw Live; Take on The Takeaway; Who Do You Think You Are?; Who Do You Think You Are?
Ainsley is also a number one best selling author, and has twelve solo books to his name. He has sold more than two million books worldwide, with co-editions for Dutch, Danish, Slovenian and American markets. His best-selling cookbooks such as In The Kitchen, Can’t Cook Won’t Cook, Meals In Minutes, Gourmet Express One and Two, Low Fat Meals in Minutes, all presents quality, delicious and interesting, but easy to cook recipes. In 2004, Ainsley joined forces with the British Olympic Team to produce a cookbook of healthy fun recipes in Olympic Cookbook.
His popularity continues to take him round the world; over the past few years he has made riotously successful appearances at live events and on major TV programs in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and most European countries. Most recently in November 2008, he appeared at Dubai’s famous culinary celebration, Festival of Taste.
