Mike Robinson has become one of the most prolific broadcasters on British television. With 3 new series - Heaven's Kitchen, Heaven's Kitchen Cookbook and Heaven's Garden for UKTV Food and UKTV Style all currently on our screens. Mike is also a regular co-presenter on UKTV Food's Great Food Live as well as a chef presenter on BBC 2's Saturday Kitchen - he's a very busy man! All 3 of the new series were filmed on location at Mikeís pub/restaurant ñ The Pot Kiln ñ near Newbury.
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Mike Robinson has become one of the most prolific broadcasters on British television. With 3 new series - Heaven's Kitchen, Heaven's Kitchen Cookbook and Heaven's Garden for UKTV Food and UKTV Style all currently on our screens. Mike is also a regular co-presenter on UKTV Food's Great Food Live as well as a chef presenter on BBC 2's Saturday Kitchen - he's a very busy man! All 3 of the new series were filmed on location at Mikeís pub/restaurant ñ The Pot Kiln ñ near Newbury. Mike has also appeared on Ready Steady Cook and has two shows already to his name Chalet Slaves and Safari Chef.
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Mikeís first book - Wild Flavours ñ Recipes from Heavenís Kitchen (Cassell Illustrated) was published in October 2005.
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As well as presenting, Mike has also demoed at a variety of exhibitions throughout the UK including The Good Food Show and The Ideal Home Show. You can see him next at Viva Espagna in January 2006.
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A passion for mountaineering via a brief stint as a dishwasher led Mike Robinson to the television work that he has today! Spotted whilst a chef in Chamonix, in three brief years, Mike has become an accomplished and highly rated television presenter.
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Mike has always been a passionate outdoors man, and his greatest passion is cooking game and wild food generally. A love of fly-fishing introduced him to the depredations of the signal crayfish, and the damage they are doing to the riverine environment. Having made a programme about this subject for UKTV Food, Mike decided that this valuable commodity ought to be harvested.
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Mike Robinson Wild Foods was born in Spring 2004. The company is now supplying crayfish to many of the top London restaurants and hotels and is taking on new customers every week. At the moment it is mostly a family business with his wife Katie as the mainstay, his cousin Tom as chief trapper, Mike's Dad, Alan, as computer whiz, back-up trapper, and general all-round help and Mike's Mum, Gilly, steps in with some much needed extra help on packing days. What does Mike do.....er, well he gives them lots of encouragement!!
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More information on Mikeís new pub/restaurant ñ The Pot Kiln ñ can be found at www.potkiln.co.uk
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Contacting Mike
TFA Group, 40 Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell, London, ECIR 0NE T 07000 300 707 F 07000 400 707 http://www.tfa-group.com
