BBC Saturday Kitchen guest Iain Stirling leaves Matt Tebbutt in stitches
14.05.2022 - 14:23
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Saturday Kitchen is the perfect antidote to a busy week. It is a show packed with fabulously scrumptious food, inspiration and recipes that viewers are encouraged to recreate at home.
This week’s guests who joined host Matt Tebbutt were drink writer Helen McGinn, chef-patron of two Michelin-starred Kitchen Table James Knappett, chef Andi Oliver and Scottish comedian and Love Island voiceover man Iain Stirling. Mateo Zielonka, aka The Pasta Man also made an appearance, creating stunning pasta in various colours that almost looked too pretty to eat.
The show, which scooped the best Programme Award at the annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards on Friday night, kicked off with guests in high spirits. The show’s award scoop was mentioned five times by various guests throughout the broadcast, which prompted fresh rounds of raucous celebratory laughter in the studio.
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Stirling had the studio in stitches with his funny quips and stories. Speaking about a yoga incident where someone stole his shoes, Stirling said: “I was a thin-guy-fat so I went to yoga. I came out of the yoga class. I had these little pants on that I thought were compulsory.
"This guy was in the changing room and he had my shoes on his feet. Then I said to the man: ‘Oh those are my shoes.’ I was doubting myself as I thought: ‘There’s no way someone’s taken my shoes.’ Then he said: ‘No, they’re my shoes.’
"Then he left. So basically that’s my life, I try doing things to be a better human being and then they go wrong and I look mad a lot of the time."
There were a range of delicious dishes cooked throughout the show which were matched by drink expert McGinn. James Knappett