Inside the Factory: Xmas Party Food
04:50 am - 06:00 am, Wednesday, December 24 on That's TV (56)
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Xmas Party Food
Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey find out how favourite festive party foods are made. Gregg visits an enormous factory in Nottingham where 200,000 canapes are produced every 24 hours. Cherry discovers fail-safe scientific methods for cooking the perfect Christmas roast, turning her oven into a turkey sauna by popping ice cubes into a baking tray. Historian Ruth Goodman looks into the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe and also investigates how the period of advent, traditionally associated with fasting, came to be connected with chocolate-packed calendars
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Cast & Crew
Gregg Wallace
(Presenter)
Cherry Healey
(Presenter)
Ruth Goodman
(Contributor)
Sam Bailey
(Producer)
Amanda Lyon
(Executive producer)
Sanjay Singhal
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
Gregg Wallace
(Presenter)
Born:
October 17, 1964
in
London
Best Known For:
Presenting MasterChef with John Torode.
Early-life:
Gregg Allan Wallace was born in Peckham on October 17, 1964. He lived with his brother, parents Alan and Mary and grandparents in a small house with no bathroom. He began his career selling vegetables at a stand in Covent Garden. He started George Allan's Greengrocers in 1989, a company that built up to an eventual turnover of £7.5 million. Due to his success he was invited to co-present Veg Talk on BBC Radio 4 with Charlie Hicks, where he stayed for seven years.
Career:
Wallace was the original presenter of Saturday Kitchen from 2002 until he was replaced by Antony Worrall Thompson in 2003. He writes regularly for Good Food and Olive magazine, and has had interests in various businesses, including two London restaurants. Wallace also presented Veg Out for the Discovery Channel, and Follow That Tomato for The Food Channel, resulting in a Royal Television Society award for Best Lifestyle Programme in 2003. For the BBC, he has been a hugely popular presenter of MasterChef and Celebrity MasterChef. He also co-presented Harvest 2013 and Supermarket Secrets. In 2014, he took part in Strictly Come Dancing and was the first to leave the competition.
Quote:
"People think that I'm a chef because I'm doing MasterChef and I evaluate food. A lot of people shout at me in the street: 'Oh, look, there's that chef from the telly.'"
Trivia:
Wallace used to play rugby union for London Welsh Vets and has a level 2 rugby union coaching certificate.
Cherry Healey
(Presenter)
Born:
December 05, 1979
in
Shepherd's Bush, London
Best Known For:
Presenting various BBC documentaries.
Early-life:
Born Cherry Kathleen Chadwyck-Healey on December 5, 1979 in Shepherd's Bush, London. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College until 1999. Cherry got a degree in drama education and drama for social change at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career:
Healey has presented a number of documentaries on BBC Three, such as Cherry Has a Baby, Cherry Goes Dating and Cherry's Body Dilemmas. She presented Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods on BBC One. Since 2015, she has presented E4's The Jump spin-off, The Jump: On the Piste. She co-presented two series of Inside the Factory for BBC Two, was a participant on Celebrity MasterChef in 2016 and, since 2017, has been co-presenting The Health Detectives and The Best of British Takeaways.
Quote:
"I hate to admit this, but I had a negative view of single mums before I became one."
Trivia:
She is a descendant of the Chadwyck-Healey baronets.
Ruth Goodman
(Contributor)
Best Known For:
Victorian Farm.
Early-life:
Ruth was born in 1963. She made her TV debut in Tales from the Green Valley, which saw her spending a year reconstructing and maintaining a 17th-century farm with archaeologists Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands.
Career:
In 2009, Goodman was part of a team that recreated everyday life on a small farm in Shropshire in the mid-19th century in popular BBC series Victorian Farm. Her other TV projects on similar lines include Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm and Wartime Farm. She has also presented Coast and 24 Hours in the Past. Away from her TV work, Goodman works with a range of institutions and museums such as The Weald and Downland, The Globe Theatre, and the National Trust.
Quote:
"We matter. How our ancestors - ordinary men, women and children - solved the nitty gritty problems of everyday life made the world what it is today."
Trivia:
In 2012, Goodman was awarded an Honorary Degree from Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln.
Sam Bailey
(Producer)
Amanda Lyon
(Executive producer)
Sanjay Singhal
(Executive producer)
