Ep2. Putting British food on school menus – the experts have their say.

Love British Food

This episode focuses on education catering and Derek Wright is joined by Rob Cass from the Academy at OCS, Katherine Breckon development and training chef at North Yorkshire Council and Jacquie Blake OBE and former Chair of the Local Authority Caterers Association. They discuss their work within education catering, why they care about sourcing British food and how they will be taking part in this year’s British Food Fortnight.

Ben's recipe can be found here recipes-mains (lovebritishfood.co.uk)

Chapters

00:00 Opening introduction

01:09 Derek's introduction

03:20 Jacquie introduction

04:36 Rob introduction

06:27 Kath introduction

07:58 Jacquie's OBE presentation

09:46 Rob’s involvement with the chefs academy

12:39 The Fish and Ship festival in Whitby

18:15 Jaque outlines the changes she has seen within the catering industry over time.

22:14 What’s OCS current development plan involves

29:45 Love British Food Fortnight plans.

34:09 Derek's summary of the interview and more information about British Food Fortnight

35:50 Ben Bartlett ‘in season’ review and recipe.

38:34 Closing piece from Derek