TV Chef Matt Tebbutt Set to Cook Live at Southport Flower Show

Southport Flower Show are delighted to announce that Matt Tebbutt, Chef and TV presenter, will be cooking live in this year’s Cookery Theatre on Thursday 15th August.

Matt presents the ever-popular BBC1 food and chat show, ‘Saturday Kitchen’. He is also the presenter of its favourite moments partner - ‘Best Bites’ on BBC2 every Sunday.

Matt also co-hosts 'Food Unwrapped' on Channel 4.  Matt, along with Jimmy Doherty and Andi Oliver, fronts this food and science series that lifts the lid on what's really in the food we eat.

Matt made good use of his Geography & Anthropology degree making a food and travel show for the Discovery Channel. 'Kings of the Wild' tested his foraging and culinary skills in amazing jungle locations around the world.

Matt co-presented Market Kitchen on UKTV for five years with Rachel Allen, Tom Parker-Bowles and Matthew Fort.

Matt is a passionate exponent of Modern British cooking, using only the freshest, seasonal and locally-sourced ingredients. As well as Marco Pierre-White, he trained under such greats as Alastair Little, Bruce Poole and Sally Clarke.  For fourteen years, Matt and his wife Lisa ran The Foxhunter restaurant in Monmouthshire (Restaurant of the Year for Wales 2004) where the daily-changing menu featured an exciting range of wild and foraged foods. His most recent project is a small cookery school and filming kitchen in Wales.He has written four cookbooks, ‘Matt Tebbutt Cooks Country’, ‘Guilty Pleasures’ and his current offering ‘Weekend’. ‘Matt Tebbutt’s Pub Food’ will be available from August.

Southport Flower Show, sponsored by the Seventy Ninth Group, is the UK’s largest independent flower show and attracts over 55,000 visitors across 4 days.

Visitors to this year’s show can enjoy inspirational show gardens, spectacular floral displays, gardening advice, a pop-up shopping village with everything you need for the home and garden, cookery demonstrations, live music, entertainment and so much more!

Special guests confirmed to date for the Garden Theatre are Carole Baxter and George Anderson of Beechgrove Garden, Adam Frost of BBC Gardeners’ World, David Domoney of Love Your Garden, Skinny Jean Gardener of BBC's and CBBC's Blue Peter and CBeebeies Star Justin Fletcher.  

Our Cookery Theare sponsored by Lancashire Tea and Nationwide Produce has celebrity chefs Phil Vickery of This Morning and Platinum Pudding winner Jemma Melvin confirmed to date with many more to be announced over the next few months.

So why not join us Thursday 15th - Sunday 18th August 2024 to celebrate 100 years of Southport Flower Show. Keep your eyes peeled for more exciting announcements on our Southport Flower Show website and social media channels.