Food Unwrapped

About this Broadcast

Season 25, Episode 3

Kate Quilton heads to Kenya to see how cold-brew coffee differs from iced coffee. Helen Lawal tries frozen pastries in Portugal to see how well they perform well against fresh, while Briony May Williams heads to Staffordshire to learn how parsnips are cultivated to taste so sweet

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Cooking Education/Science/Factual Topics General Leisure Hobbies

Cast & Crew

Kate Quilton (Presenter)

Matt Tebbutt (Presenter)

Briony May Williams (Presenter)

Tim Dowse (Series producer)

Jon Willers (Executive producer)

Glenn Swift (Executive producer)

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Did You Know..

Kate Quilton (Presenter)

Best Known For: Presenting Food Unwrapped.

Early-life: Katie Marie Quilton was born in November 1983 in the United Kingdom and grew up on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds. She studied at the University of Bristol, where she did a student version of the documentary film Super Size Me (2004), where she ate kebabs for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week.

Career: While she was a student, Quilton worked for both ITV and the BBC before going on to work as a broadcast journalist in Somerset for the BBC. She spent a lot of time with farmers here and reported mostly on food. Quilton was a commissioning editor for Channel 4 between 2010 and 2014. She stepped down from the role in 2014 so that she could focus full-time on the TV series Food Unwrapped, which she has presented since 2012. Other TV programmes she has worked on include Superfoods: The Real Story, The Shopper's Guide to Saving Money and Tricks of the Restaurant Trade.

Quote: "Superfoods are everywhere!"

Trivia: She ran the London Marathon for Papworth Hospital in 2016.

Matt Tebbutt (Presenter)

Best Known For: Being a celebrity chef.

Early-life: Matt was born in High Wycombe in 1973 and raised in South Wales. After gaining a diploma at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, he went on to work for some of London's most prestigious restaurants, including the Oak Room and Criterion.

Career: Between 2009 and 2011, Tebbutt presented Saturday Kitchen on BBC One when regular host James Martin was away. He has also had presenting roles on the Great British Menu, Drop Down Menu, Market Kitchen: Big Adventure and Food Unwrapped. He used to own and run the Foxhunter restaurant in Nant-y-derry near Usk in South Wales.

Quote: "Being thrown in the deep-end in a top kitchen is daunting, but its brilliant experience."

Trivia: In 2008, Tebbutt published the book Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking.