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PHIL VICKERY

Phil Vickery does English cooking better than anyone in the country - Jonathan Meades, Sunday Times Magazine
Some of the finest English cooking imaginable intense flavours and subtlety that no other chef seemed to match - Nicholas Lander, Financial Times
Supreme puddings - Good Food Guide
He is not only a talented chef, but something rarer still a sensible and sensitive one - Independent
Vickery's nurturing of unflashy ingredients exemplifies a singular talent - London Evening Standard
Honest and unpretentious - Mirror
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Over the years, AA Restaurant Guides rated Phil one of the top 20 chefs in Britain; his restaurant was awarded a Michelin star on four successive years.
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Phil appears as the residentchef on ITV's This Morning a live cookery slot on national TV, with viewing figures in excess of 3 million. (3 years)
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Phil has written a weekly column for one of Britain's biggest-selling Sunday supplements, and a monthly feature for a leading women's magazine.


Watch a short biography of Phil's career so far

AWARDS

Michelin Star 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Egon Ronay Star 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Egon Ronay Dessert Chef of the Year 1995
A.A. Four Rosettes 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999. 2000 named one of top 20 chefs in Britain
British Meat Chef of the Year 1998
County Restaurant of the Year, Good Food Guide 1998
Jonathan Meades - Times Restaurant of the Year 1995
Member of the Academie Culinaire de France; awarded Chef Laureate 1987
The King Of Prussia, Farnham Royal, Bucks
  • One of the top 30 rated pubs in the UK, Olive magazine February 2005
  • One of the top 20 rated pubs in the UK, The Morning Advertiser March 2005
  • Coveted Egon Ronay Star, Good Food Guide Entry 2006
  • Entry Michelin 2006

TELEVISION

Currently appearing on ITV´s This Morning, 1999-2006

Appearances include:
  • 25 regional films celebrating Great British Foods, 2002-2005
  • 5 films on Bar-b-que, Kids cooking, Christmas, 2005 2006
  • Filmed at Prince Charles's organic Home Farm 2006
  • Taste of Europe 10 films highlighting great foods, summer 2004
  • Vickery’s Voyages 8 food /travel strands Tunisia, Spain, Teneriffe, Florida Keys, St Lucia, Majorca, Cyprus, Sri Lanka 2006
  • 5 outdoor films concentrating on picnic´s, Bar-b-que, Caravan, Al Fresco and Camping 2006
Phil Vickery´s Pudding Club, his own prime-time show for Anglia TV, now in its second series

A regular on BBC 2´s Ready, Steady, Cook! and Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook! - over 170 appearances since 1996

Masterchef Judge 1999, 2000

The Holiday Programme Guest presenter, Spice Islands, Zanzibar 1999

Who'll do the Pudding? 12 programmes, 1998


JOURNALISM

Sunday People Magazine weekly cookery page, 1997-2003
Woman and Home monthly 4-page Cook for a Lifestyle feature, 2000-2001
BBC Good Food Magazine columnist, 1997-2005
Olive 2005/2006
Delicious Magazine 2003-2005
Best Magazine 2005/2006


BOOKS

JUST FOOD (Headline, January 2000)

  • Short listed for the prestigious Andre Simon Award 2004
  • Featured in Cookery Books of the Year in the Independent, Daily Telegraph and Daily Express
  • Daily Mirror Book of the Week
  • BBC Good Food Magazine Best Buy
Kit Chapman's Great British Chefs includes a chapter on Phil

Phil & Fern’s Family Food (Granada July 2003)
  • WHSmiths & Woolworths; cookery book of the month
The Proof Of the Pudding (Simon & Schuster 2003)
  • Sunday Independent: ‘He’s perhaps the finest puddings chef in the land’
  • Home & Garden; ‘200 mouthwatering recipes’
  • Sunday Herald Magazine:’ A comprehensive romp through the British pud canon’
  • Daily Mirror M Magazine: ‘His desserts are so good’
  • BBC Good Food Magazine: ‘He’s passionate about Britain and British ingredients’ & ‘Phil is known for his fabulous desserts’
  • Short listed for the Andre Simon award 2003

A Passion For Puddings (Simon & Schuster 2005)

The Complete Gammon Cookbook (Simon & Schuster 2006)

Britain the Cookbook (Mitchell Beazley 2007)


LIVE EVENTS


Phil performs regular cooking demonstrations at regional food and drink festivals
and on cookery courses. He has also recently appeared at the following events:
BBC Good Food Show Celebrity Theatre - 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
Ideal Home Show 2000, 2001, 2003
BBC Good Food Get Cooking! Show 2000
East of England Show - 2003, 2004
Pembrokeshire Fish Festival - 2003
British Food Week, Stavanger Norway - 2003, 2004
A regular on This Morning, ITV1 - 2006, 2007, 2008


PR


Phil has taken part in media promotions for the following products and events:
Bailey's Campaign 2005
Bird's Custard promotion 2001
British Meat Keep Sunday a Day of Roast campaign 2000
British Pork, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Canderel 2003, 2006
Carnation Milk 150th year anniversary 2004, 2005, 2006
Endorsement of British Home Stores cookware 1999, 2000
Flora Buddy packs 2005
Florida Grapefruit Campaign 2004, 2005, 2006
Herta Sausages 2006
John West Tuna promotion 2001
Jus-Rol Pastry Celebrity Chef 1998, 1999
Official Queen Mother's Birthday Cake commissioned by Royal Mail 2000
Quaker Oats December 2003
Watercress Campaign 2003, 2004


WEBSITES

Phil has pages on the following websites:
www.thismorning.co.uk/vickery
www.angliatv.com/puddingclub
www.bbc.co.uk/foodnation
www.aldi.co.uk
www.sixtyplusurfers.co.uk

www.seriouslygoodfood.co.uk

www.vickery.tv

 

About Phil

"Phil Vickery does English cooking better than anyone in the country" ::Jonathan Meades, Sunday Times Magazine

"Some of the finest English cooking imaginable intense flavours and subtlety that no other chef seemed to match" ::Nicholas Lander, Financial Times