Mistry family clinch the title in The Big Family Cooking Showdown 2018
The Mistry family, comprising Mitesh, Prachi and Anup, have clinched the second series of BBC Two’s competitive food series The Big Family Cooking Showdown 2018 with a delicious recipe for Lamb curry with khooba roti. The series, which was won by The Gangotras in 2017, was recommissioned with a refreshed format that saw presenter Angellica Bell and award-winning chef Tommy Banks, both running the show and judging the competition.
Angellica Bell won plaudits for winning Celebrity Masterchef last year and has been a regular face on the BBC for several years including, most recently, on The One Show. Tommy Banks is founder of The Black Swan in Yorkshire, and was Britain’s youngest ever Michelin starred chef. The first series closed with an audience of 2 million viewers in November 2017 after a 12-week run. It was presented by Zoe Ball and Nadiya Hussein, with Giorgio Locatelli and Rosemary Schrager as judges.
Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two, says: “The Big Family Cooking Showdown is a celebration of the role of mealtimes in family lives across the UK and I am so pleased we are bringing it back to the channel.”
The 2018 series returned to BBC Two with an increased 14 episode order in a new slot of 7pm from 15th October 2018 until 2nd November 2018. It was filmed in Wales and was made by Voltage Wales, the recently-opened Cardiff-based production base for factual indie Voltage TV.
Commissioned for BBC Two by Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two and David Brindley, Head of Popular Factual. The Executive Producers at Voltage TV are Sanjay Singhal and Kathleen Larkin. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Catherine Catton.
About the Mistry Family
The Mistry family from Croydon, South London, have a vast and varied repertoire – and although they all have a proud Indian heritage they love to make recipes and dishes based on their travels.
Mitesh and Prachi met in India during his last few weeks working out there. It wasn’t love at first sight for Prachi as she handed him her business card at the end of the evening. But when he returned back to the UK they had a long-distance relationship and she would regularly use video calling to teach him how to cook dishes.
Prachi is the brains of the cooking operation and runs a very tight ship. Anup, a software analyst, has big and bold ideas when it comes to cooking. He has travelled extensively which has had a massive impact on what he cooks. After traveling to Italy when he was 14, Italian cuisine hit the top spot for him.
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