Jamie's Great Britain

12 October 2011

1/6: The East End and Essex, Tuesday 25th October, 9pm, Channel 4

This week, Jamie kicks off his road-trip close to home in the East End of London, uncovering his family's roots in the area. Some of Jamie's ancestors made their homes there - running pubs - until his family eventually moved out to Essex, where he was born.

Jamie tells the story of the East End, a place where many immigrants have traditionally arrived in the UK - which is why it has always been a literal melting pot of culinary cultures.

 

Jamie tastes classic East End grub at a pie and mash shop, tries Banh Mi, modern Vietnamese street food and meets a chef turning humble burgers into gourmet cuisine.

Then he hits the road in his mobile kitchen/pub - The Cock In Cider - and heads for his home territory, Southend-on-Sea and the Essex coast.  Jamie collects winkles and has a BBQ with his mum, dad and nan on the very same beach where he came as a child thirty years ago.

Along the way, Jamie cooks up four delicious new classic British recipes in tribute to his experiences.  On the menu this week are a delicious beef and ale pie dedicated to Kate & Will's wedding, Leigh-on-Sea Sole cooked with shellfish and brown shrimps, fresh oysters four ways and baked sea bass in a bag.

"Starting in Essex and the East End of London really made sense because not only is that a really exciting vibrant part of the UK, it's where I'm from and where I work every day," says Jamie. "I start off by going back to a pub owned by my great great grandfather who owned about 10 pubs in the East End and end up on an Essex beach where I used to go on holiday as a kid!

"Along the way I check out street food, incredible British seafood and good old East End pie and mash.  Then to top it all off, I make an absolutely delicious beef and beer pie to celebrate William and Kate's wedding."

 

Prod: Katie Millard

Prod/Dir: Claire Whalley

Series Dir: Mike Matthews

Exec Prod: Zoe Collins

Prod Co: Fresh One Productions

 

In this new six-part series, Jamie Oliver is taking to the road, travelling the length and breadth of Britain to find out what makes our food great. He's searching for new ideas and inspiration to create his own versions of British classics - with a twist.

And he discovers that many of the dishes we think of as typically British aren't ‘British' at all, but full of influences from around the world through invasion, exploration, colonisation and immigration.

Fish and chips are the quintessential British dish, but the fried fish was brought to the East End of London by Jewish immigrants from Portugal and fried potatoes come from Belgium and France.

Over six programmes, Jamie visits Essex and the East End, Yorkshire, The Heart of England, the South West, South Wales and the West of Scotland

"We've got fantastic food here in Britain and it's time we celebrated it," says Jamie. "We're like magpies, we love to get little ideas and then, what the British are brilliant at, is making it our own".

A book to accompany the series, 'Jamie's Great Britain', is published by Penguin.

 

 

 

1/6: The East End and Essex, Tuesday 25th October, 9pm, Channel 4

This week, Jamie kicks off his road-trip close to home in the East End of London, uncovering his family's roots in the area. Some of Jamie's ancestors made their homes there - running pubs - until his family eventually moved out to Essex, where he was born.

Jamie tells the story of the East End, a place where many immigrants have traditionally arrived in the UK - which is why it has always been a literal melting pot of culinary cultures.

 

Jamie tastes classic East End grub at a pie and mash shop, tries Banh Mi, modern Vietnamese street food and meets a chef turning humble burgers into gourmet cuisine.

Then he hits the road in his mobile kitchen/pub - The Cock In Cider - and heads for his home territory, Southend-on-Sea and the Essex coast.  Jamie collects winkles and has a BBQ with his mum, dad and nan on the very same beach where he came as a child thirty years ago.

Along the way, Jamie cooks up four delicious new classic British recipes in tribute to his experiences.  On the menu this week are a delicious beef and ale pie dedicated to Kate & Will's wedding, Leigh-on-Sea Sole cooked with shellfish and brown shrimps, fresh oysters four ways and baked sea bass in a bag.

"Starting in Essex and the East End of London really made sense because not only is that a really exciting vibrant part of the UK, it's where I'm from and where I work every day," says Jamie. "I start off by going back to a pub owned by my great great grandfather who owned about 10 pubs in the East End and end up on an Essex beach where I used to go on holiday as a kid!

"Along the way I check out street food, incredible British seafood and good old East End pie and mash.  Then to top it all off, I make an absolutely delicious beef and beer pie to celebrate William and Kate's wedding."

 

Prod: Katie Millard

Prod/Dir: Claire Whalley

Series Dir: Mike Matthews

Exec Prod: Zoe Collins

Prod Co: Fresh One Productions

 

In this new six-part series, Jamie Oliver is taking to the road, travelling the length and breadth of Britain to find out what makes our food great. He's searching for new ideas and inspiration to create his own versions of British classics - with a twist.

And he discovers that many of the dishes we think of as typically British aren't ‘British' at all, but full of influences from around the world through invasion, exploration, colonisation and immigration.

Fish and chips are the quintessential British dish, but the fried fish was brought to the East End of London by Jewish immigrants from Portugal and fried potatoes come from Belgium and France.

Over six programmes, Jamie visits Essex and the East End, Yorkshire, The Heart of England, the South West, South Wales and the West of Scotland

"We've got fantastic food here in Britain and it's time we celebrated it," says Jamie. "We're like magpies, we love to get little ideas and then, what the British are brilliant at, is making it our own".

A book to accompany the series, 'Jamie's Great Britain', is published by Penguin.

 

 

 

1/6: The East End and Essex, Tuesday 25th October, 9pm, Channel 4

This week, Jamie kicks off his road-trip close to home in the East End of London, uncovering his family's roots in the area. Some of Jamie's ancestors made their homes there - running pubs - until his family eventually moved out to Essex, where he was born.

Jamie tells the story of the East End, a place where many immigrants have traditionally arrived in the UK - which is why it has always been a literal melting pot of culinary cultures.

 

Jamie tastes classic East End grub at a pie and mash shop, tries Banh Mi, modern Vietnamese street food and meets a chef turning humble burgers into gourmet cuisine.

Then he hits the road in his mobile kitchen/pub - The Cock In Cider - and heads for his home territory, Southend-on-Sea and the Essex coast.  Jamie collects winkles and has a BBQ with his mum, dad and nan on the very same beach where he came as a child thirty years ago.

Along the way, Jamie cooks up four delicious new classic British recipes in tribute to his experiences.  On the menu this week are a delicious beef and ale pie dedicated to Kate & Will's wedding, Leigh-on-Sea Sole cooked with shellfish and brown shrimps, fresh oysters four ways and baked sea bass in a bag.

"Starting in Essex and the East End of London really made sense because not only is that a really exciting vibrant part of the UK, it's where I'm from and where I work every day," says Jamie. "I start off by going back to a pub owned by my great great grandfather who owned about 10 pubs in the East End and end up on an Essex beach where I used to go on holiday as a kid!

"Along the way I check out street food, incredible British seafood and good old East End pie and mash.  Then to top it all off, I make an absolutely delicious beef and beer pie to celebrate William and Kate's wedding."

 

Prod: Katie Millard

Prod/Dir: Claire Whalley

Series Dir: Mike Matthews

Exec Prod: Zoe Collins

Prod Co: Fresh One Productions

 

In this new six-part series, Jamie Oliver is taking to the road, travelling the length and breadth of Britain to find out what makes our food great. He's searching for new ideas and inspiration to create his own versions of British classics - with a twist.

And he discovers that many of the dishes we think of as typically British aren't ‘British' at all, but full of influences from around the world through invasion, exploration, colonisation and immigration.

Fish and chips are the quintessential British dish, but the fried fish was brought to the East End of London by Jewish immigrants from Portugal and fried potatoes come from Belgium and France.

Over six programmes, Jamie visits Essex and the East End, Yorkshire, The Heart of England, the South West, South Wales and the West of Scotland

"We've got fantastic food here in Britain and it's time we celebrated it," says Jamie. "We're like magpies, we love to get little ideas and then, what the British are brilliant at, is making it our own".

A book to accompany the series, 'Jamie's Great Britain', is published by Penguin.