Description
Celebrities take a culinary trip down memory lane in a brand new series for BBC ONE Daytime Tastes and smells of food have the power to whisk you right back to a special place in your memory. Whether it's aromas from the family kitchen, school dinners, picnics or Sunday roasts, you can be zoomed right back to childhood in a mouthful. Presented by TV chef Brian Turner, My Life on a Plate takes a different celebrity each day back to their youth, using important locations and the power of food to jog their memories, happy and sad. Stories of their childhood and the regions where they grew up inspire Brian to cook two dishes: one full of nostalgia, perhaps drawing on a favourite dish that Mum used to cook, the second a tribute to his guest, putting their life on a plate.In the first episode of this new series, Mary Berry journeys back to her childhood haunts in Bath and reveals that she was an outdoorsy child and naughty at school! Together with Brian Turner, they visit key locations that resonate with Mary, prompting heart-warming memories of a happy childhood. Brian is inspired to cook two dishes - one full of nostalgia to remind Mary of her Mum's home baking; the other is a tribute to Mary, drawing on different aspects of her younger years, that puts her life on a plate.Other celebrities featured in the series include Nigel Havers, Nicholas Parsons, Arlene Phillips, Colin Jackson, Alistair McGowan, Lesley Garrett and Michael Buerk.