Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour airs on BBC One…
Celebrity chef Anna Haugh is embarking on a culinary journey from Ballycastle in County Antrim to Cork city for the new Beeb series Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour which will air later this month on BBC One Northern Ireland and can be seen across the rest of the UK on the iPlayer. The series will be shown later in the year across the UK on BBC One daytime.
Anna Haugh:
“Irish food is my passion and it’s a passion that took me from Dublin to London to pursue my dreams. In this series I am returning home to rediscover what is incredible and unique about Irish food.”
Anna will be travelling around Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, exploring the culture and cuisine of her home. In each episode, Anna will be joined by a celebrity guest to meet the people behind some local produce and sample an array of ingredients and flavours the island of Ireland has to offer.
Throughout this 15 part series celebrity guests including Katherine Ryan, Dennis Taylor, Ed Byrne, Shayne Ward, Laura Whitmore and Carl Frampton share their own Irish food memories and don their aprons to help Anna prepare a special meal.
Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour launches on BBC One Northern Ireland on the 6th of January at 8pm on BBC One Northern Ireland. The full series will be available to watch on the iPlayer after episode one airs.
Anna Haugh:
“When the production company, Below the Radar TV came to me and asked, ‘Would I like to travel around Ireland with amazing people like Katherine Ryan and Dennis Taylor?’ How could I say no? So a series like this, I feel like it was written for me and I hope everyone really enjoys it.”
In the first episode, Katherine Ryan joins Anna in the city of Cork – the ‘foodie capital of Ireland’ – where memories of her grandmother’s ‘over-boiled and under-seasoned’ dinners have left the comedian with a bad impression of Irish food. In episode two snooker legend Dennis Taylor returns to the snooker hall in County Tyrone where it all began and after a spot of fishing, Anna and Dennis do some outdoor cooking with one of the area’s most unique delicacies – the Lough Neagh eel.
Later in the series, in her native Dublin, Anna meets actor Eilish O’Carroll from Mrs Brown’s Boys in an area of the city where traditional markets mix with global street food, and in County Antrim she visits a Ballycastle farm with garden designer Diarmuid Gavin.
Others appearing in the production include presenter Angela Scanlon, actor Ian McElhinney, presenter Vanessa Feltz, Father Ted actor Pauline McLynn, wildlife broadcaster Liz Bonnin, rugby legend Bundee Aki and The Saturdays popstar Una Healy.
