MATT TEBBUTT is back on our screens on Saturday Kitchen with more guests and more recipes to choose from.
This is who was on Saturday’s Kitchen on Saturday, July 9, 2022.
Who is on Saturday Kitchen today?
Today’s Saturday Kitchen included a guest appearance by James Bay, who joined chefs Cyrus Todiwala and Tony Singh.
Helen McGinn also joined in the mix to choose the wine that will go best with the dishes made in the studio.
Get to know the people who appeared on today’s show.
Special Guest James Bay
James Bay is releasing his new album Leap in 2022
James Bay is an English singer-songwriter born on September 4, 1990, in Hitchin.
He released his first album in 2014 called Chaos and the Calm.
His second album came four years later, which he called Electric Light and his latest is Leap, released in 2022.
He toured with some of the top names in the music industry.
In 2014, the year he released his debut album, he got the opportunity to tour with Hozier in North America while a year later, he was the opening act for Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour in Europe.
He also opened for the Rolling Stones during their 2018 No Filter Tour and for Ed Sheeran during his ÷ Tour in Europe in 2019.
He will be touring next with The Lumineers during their Brightside World Tour in 2022.
Some of his hit singles are Let It Go released in 2014 – which reached the top 10 in the UK Charts that year – and Hold Back the River which reached number two on the charts that year.
Chef Cyrus Todiwala
Chef Cyrus Todiwala pairs up with Tony Singh to spice up Saturday Kitchen
Cyrus Todiwala was born on October 16, 1956, in Mumbai, India.
He and his wife Pervin, run four restaurants together and will also reopen Cafe Spice Namaste.
He is considered a role model for Indian and other Asian chefs after moving to London in the early 1990s with his young family.
He overturned the British limited expectations of Indian cuisine and introduced the country to whole new world of spice.
He’s written seven cookbooks which include the best-selling Simple Spice Vegetarian, released in March 2020.
He also has his culinary line which includes condiments, oils, spice blends and sauces.
Chef Tony Singh
Tony Singh earned himself an MBE in the 2017 Honours List
Tony Singh was born on May 15, 1971, in Leith, Edinburgh in Scotland and comes from a second-generation Scottish Sikh family.
Tony earned his culinary skills from his mother, who combined Scottish and Asian flavours, which he eventually went on to share with the rest of Britain.
After working in some of the top-dining spots across London and Scotland, Tony opened his award-winning restaurants and also won the Scottish Chef of the Year.
Tony does a lot of charity work and has been a pinnacle in the food and drink industry, especially with his Scottish-Asian fusions, which earned him an MBE in the 2017 Honours List.
Drinks Expert Helen McGinn
Helen McGinn is a wines expert
Helen McGinn is an international wine judge and writes about drinks for the Daily Mail and the Waitrose Food Magazine among others.
She spend almost a decade sourcing wines globally and is the author of the best-selling book, the Knackered Mother’s Wine Club, and also of the award-winning wine blog.
Helen lives in New Forest with her husband with whom she had three kids, with her many dogs and a cat.
Who is the host of Saturday Kitchen?
Matt Tebbutt surprisingly took a geography and anthropology degree before going on the culinary path
Saturday Kitchen is presented by a chef himself, Matt Tebbutt.
Matt was born on December 24, 1973, in High Wycombe and also presented Food Unwrapped and Daily Kitchen Live.
Despite being born in England, Matt was actually raised in South Wales, because he moved there when he was just six months old.
Cooking was not Matt’s first career choice.
At Oxford Brookes University, he took a degree in geography and anthropology and then went on to study at the Leith’s School of Food and Wine.
He started presenting Saturday Kitchen in October 2009 and has been ever since.
