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M2 PRESSWIRE-June 19, 2018-Great British Menu to crown a champion of champions in a first for hit series
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June 19, 2018
The programme will pay tribute to 70 years of the NHS with a culinary feast to say thank you
Great British Menu is back on BBC Two this summer, and this year - for the first time ever - one outstanding chef will be crowned the champion of champions when banquet diners vote on their favourite dish in the final episode.
This series will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service, with chefs cooking celebratory and heartfelt dishes in tribute to the heroic staff of the NHS. Once again in charge of picking the perfect four-course menu are judges Andi Oliver, Oliver Peyton OBE and Matthew Fort.
Helping the judges to select the winning dishes are guest judges who represent the incredible NHS heroes who treat more than a million patients every 24 hours. They include Dan Smith, one of the first paramedics at the MEN bombing; Aneira Thomas, the first baby born on the NHS; Jenny Turner, Britain's longest-serving nurse and Dr Rangan Chatterjee from BBC One's Doctor In The House.
The competition challenges 24 of the nation's top chefs to create exceptional dishes to be prescribed at this year's banquet, held in the beautiful Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Britain's oldest working hospital. Their creations must give the ultimate thank you to NHS heroes from around the country, with tastes unlike anything they've experienced before -...