Taste the Nation

Synopsis

Another daytime cookery competition from ITV. The novelties for the contestants here are that a) it's for teams of four rather than individuals, b) they're representing their counties.

Each team of four is helped and hindered by a celebrity chef mentor, with the celebs looking after a patch of the country. According to the pre-publicity, the inter-county rivalry added spice to the contest.

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Trivia

The celebrity chefs, their regions, and competing counties in the 2009 series were:

Midlands - mentor: Antony Worrall Thompson - Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, Nottinghamshire

South West - John Burton Race - Somerset, Devon, Wiltshire, Cornwall

South East - Ed Baines - Kent, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Surrey

North East - Rosemary Shrager - Northumberland, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire

Scotland - Nick Nairn - Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian

"North West" - Merillees Parker - Lancashire, Cheshire, Shropshire, County Down

East - Martin Blunos - Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire

Wales - Graham Tinsley - Monmouthshire, Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire

See also

Test the Nation, a BBC participation quiz from earlier in the same decade.

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