Britain’s Best Dish in the Midlands

ITV1’s nationwide cooking competition to find the UK’s most mouth-watering dish is targeting the Midlands in its search for Britain’s Best Dish.

Last year saw Jonathon Davies from Leeds scoop the £10,000 first prize with a sumptuous dish of Seared Masala Spring Lamb. Amateur chefs from Norfolk and Hampshire have also triumphed in previous contests – so could 2011 be the year when someone from the Midlands step up to the plate?

The show’s producers are hoping to attract lots of local culinary talent to compete for the £10,000 cash prize.

We are having our local UK auditions for people to pitch their dish in January 2011. The Coventry audition will be on the 29th January 2011.

“There’s a fantastic tradition of wonderful home cooking in the region, and we’re expecting to find some really talented cooks when we visit in January for the auditions” said series producer Rory Dalziel.

“Whether it’s a Melton Mowbray pork pie, jugged hare or a Bakewell tart, we’re confident of a very high standard, as well as a few exciting surprises.”

The idea of the series – to be screened on ITV1 next Spring – is to find the tastiest starter, main course and dessert cooked in the UK, with one of those courses going on to win the overall title of Britain’s Best Dish 2011, plus the £10,000 first prize.

The production team will be coming to Coventry in January and they are asking people to come along and pitch their signature dish. The amateur cooks with the most potential will then be invited to London to take part in a live studio “cook off.”

“We are looking for delicious homemade dishes cooked by people who have a real passion about food, as well as the strong belief that they can produce Britain’s Best Dish” said Dalziel. “There’ll be no cooking involved at this stage but we want everyone to bring either a sample of their dish, a photo of it or something else that will make it stand out.”

What makes our food program different from others is that we are very interested in advocating regional ingredients. We would love to see amateur cooks using fresh local food in our kitchen studios in order to promote the use of good quality local produce. Regularly attracting viewing figures in excess of two million, we are expecting the fifth series to be bigger than ever, showcasing great regional produce and plenty of taste.

Anyone who would like to be considered for the auditions should contact bestdish@itv.com or call 09011 22 33 11.

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