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Sunday 10th May
11am: Winner of the NECTA
inaugural Cook of the Year
competition.
Open to non-professionals from
across the North East the winner
of this coveted new title will be
crowned live at this year's two
day NECTA Salon Culinaire event
at Newcastle Civic Centre on
May 8. Apart from the honour
of being judged the top nonprofessional
in the region the
winner will also get to spend
time working with awardwinning
chef Michael Penaluna
and his team at Jesmond Dene
House, see their winning dishes
on the restaurant menu and
demonstrate one of their
winning dishes to a live audience
at Tynemouth Food Festival.
12noon: Gareth Kyle,
ITV Best British Dish and four times
MasterChef Live winner
www.garethkyle.co.uk
Gareth has been cooking for as long as he can remember. His two earliest
memories are the 1990 football World Cup and being caught by his mum in the
kitchen with a pan on the stove cooking lemonade soup! Luckily, his skills are much
sharper now!
He is a self taught cook and has taken part in a number of cooking competitions.
He was a winner of the 2012 EAT! NewcastleGateshead Trial Shift Competition and
the 2011 Masterchef Live competition at the BBC Good Food show. He then went
on to win a Masterchef ‘Champion of Champions’ event at the London Studios. In
2010 he was a final regional contender on ITV’s Britain’s Best Dish. Gareth also
worked ‘stages’ at Rockliffe Hall with Kenny Atkinson and at Blackfriars Restaurant
in Newcastle with Troy Terrington now of Jesmond Dene House.
Gareth now organises pop-up restaurant events and offers private dining services
to individual clients as well as working on blog and food article writing, cookery
classes, event and food festival management and a street food concept to be
launched in 2014.
1pm: David Kennedy, David Kennedy at Vallum, Vallum Farm,
Military Road, East Wallhouses, Northumberland.
01434 672 406, www.vallumfarm.co.uk
Former North East Chef of the Year David Kennedy made his name at
Newcastle’s Black Door, the award-winning restaurant on Clayton Street West
he opened in 2003.
This was followed by Brasserie Black Door which has now morphed into the
acclaimed David Kennedy’s Food Social at the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle,
where he is executive chef. His name also appears above the door at the Bib
Gourmand David Kennedy’s River Café on North Shields Fish Quay.
In autumn he opened David Kennedy at Vallum in the Tyne Valley where he
continues to be a vocal advocate of local and seasonal produce which he
champions on his ever-changing menus.
2pm: Dr Claire Watson-Laney.
Northumberland Sausage
Company, Roses Bower, Wark,
Hexham. NE48 3DX
Claire and her team make delicious
sausages such as Pork & Leek, Pork,
tomato and mozzarella, Beef
chocolate & chilli! Their aim is to
turn the humble banger into a
delicious delight! “ Our sausages
are great quality at a great price
and always contain excellent
ingredients. Look out for guest
exciting flavours!”
Claire will be demonstrating
sausage making and beware she
will be looking for some willing
helpers from the audience!
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