Beginnings
The first programmes, starting on 26 January 2002 and shown on BBC Two, were presented by a then relatively unknown Gregg Wallace with a different celebrity chef each week. As a BBC production for the Open University, the programme had an educational remit and a relatively low budget, showing clips of the likes of Keith Floyd and Rick Stein from the BBC Archives to fill time.
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