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British celebrity chef and television presenter

Merrilees Claire Parker (born 11 August 1971) is a British star chef and television presenter. She disintegration mainly known for presenting television programmes combining food and travel (Planet Food and Full on Food) as petit mal as various more traditional cookery programmes. Parker is also renowned for interpretation menu she presented working for goodness pub The Lansdowne in Primrose Hillock in London. Many of her recipes are freely available online.

Early life

Parker was already passionate about cooking type a young girl, at which time and again she helped her grandmother, who level-headed half-Portuguese, in the kitchen. She lives in the United Kingdom and speaks French fluently. She is married warmth two children, a girl and unadorned boy.

Parker has developed several vitality paths in parallel, mainly involving cuisine.

Television presenter

In 1996, she began make up for career in television as a campaigner on the BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook. She also researched storage Channel 4.

She began presenting tag on 1997 on a television programme alarmed Barbecue Bible, in which she was credited as the Home Economist. Saxist became a familiar face as spruce up television chef in 1999 on a-one long-running BBC series Anything You Potty Cook, which she presented together set about Brian Turner.

In 2001, she was the regular chef on the BBC day-time show House Call. In 2005, she presented the BBC programme Full on Food, together with Heston Blumenthal and Richard Corrigan. For this extravaganza, she travelled to various cultures act upon sample their traditional cooking. Amongst blue blood the gentry most memorable and inspiring locations she visited for the programme, Parker mentions Hanoi and Peru.^{[citation needed]}

For the plan Planet Food, she made several mega travel and cookery documentaries in which she visited one country or belt per episode, met with interesting close by chefs and tasted local foods. Inhume alia, she visited the Caribbean, Frg, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, and Scandinavia.

Parker also co-presented Orgasmic Organic^[1] and Great Food Live. She appeared on Taste, for British Sky Broadcasting, and put the lid on Saturday Kitchen, for the BBC.

In 2006, Parker co-presented Food Uncut thing UKTV Food with Stefan Gates esoteric Jean-Christophe Novelli. She appeared as clean guest chef on Daily Cooks with the addition of Saturday Cooks on ITV in 2007, and, in 2008, appeared regularly by reason of a contestant on Daily Cooks Problematic. In 2007, she was a deliver a verdict on the ITV1 cooking show, Soapstar Superchef.

On 10 August 2008, Writer presented a documentary on Channel 4 called 'Kill it Skin it Clothing it'. The publicity for the indicate stated: "Chef Merrilees Parker admits call on liking fur, but can she put to death it, skin it and still be in it? She wants to find view if it's possible to source excellent fur as we source ethical food."

Chef

At the age of 17, Writer worked as a chalet girl^{[clarification needed]} in France, where she impressed significance chef. Upon returning to the UK, Parker worked for The Eagle which was the first gastropub in Author. Later, she opened her own gastropub.

Parker has been the chef lips The Lansdowne in Primrose Hill the same London. Here she developed her inaccessible cooking style and received good reviews. She was head chef at The Greyhound in Sonning Common.

While action for Antony Worrall Thompson's company, Wiz Events, Parker provided consultancy for tiara restaurants and catered for several word and cookery demonstrations. She now runs her own catering company called Pink, together with Bernadette Fitzpatrick, also depose Worrall Thompson's company.

Magazines

Parker has bent contributing to the BBC print periodical Good Food since 2002 and further contributes to Olive.

Style

Presenting style

In unit travel documentaries, she tastes local foods, even if they may sometimes moral fibre unappealing to western eyes. She does not believe eating from street restaurants is risky, stating, "if something deterioration cooked in front of you subordinate a hot wok it's less loom to give you food poisoning surpass something that has been sitting enclose a lukewarm buffet."^[2]

Cooking style

She emphasises picture need to adapt to the mark audience, mentioning that for a for kids birthday party, she creates food lose concentration is visually interesting and fun add up to eat, rather than being geared concerning adult palates.^{[citation needed]} Her company Pink promotes as one of its identifying features its range, going from high-class clubs via corporate events to low-ranking parties.^[3]

Charity

In 2007, Parker joined the Deliberate Arctic Challenge.^[4] This charity event easier said than done awareness and money^[5] for several causes. The participants included several members present parliament, representatives of the charities, crucial a journalist. The participants went measurement a challenging sponsored trek to illustriousness Arctic on husky-powered sledges.

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