Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson - Chef, Presenter and Author

Mike is a regular presenter and guest chef on UKTV Food's daily live show Great Food Live, and also presents numerous mini series for UKTV Food. He is also a regular chef presenter on BBC2's Saturday Kitchen; he was in fact the first chef to launch the programme. Since 2001, Mike has presented five series for UKTV Food - Chalet Slaves filmed in Chamonix in the French Alps and Safari Chef filmed in Kenya. He was involved in the making of four series on The Pot Kiln, 'Heaven's Kitchen' , 'Heaven's Garden', 'Heaven's Kitchen Cookbook' and "Heavens Kitchen at Large"- all showing on UKTV (Sky) and continually repeated. He featured most recently in the series "Tales from the Country" showing on ITV.

Mike's book - Wild Flavours - was published in September 2005 and is available in the shops. Signed copies are available from The Pot Kiln.

As well as presenting, Mike often does regular cooking demonstrations at a variety of exhibitions throughout the UK including The Good Food Show, The Ideal Home Show and the Chelsea Flower Show. He has also held demonstrations at several gourmet food festivals in South Africa.

He writes a popular monthly article on cooking in "The Field" magazine.

A passion for mountaineering led Mike to Chamonix in France during the early 90's where a brief stint as a dishwasher was the first step on the culinary ladder. His natural talent and passion for cooking eventually got him to where he is today. It was during a spell in Chamonix in 2001 when Mike was running a business supplying chefs to ski chalets, that he was spotted by a production company and asked to present Chalet Slaves. In the few brief years since then, Mike has become an accomplished and highly rated television presenter.

As you can see from the photos above, Mike has always been an outdoors man since a very early age and his greatest passion is cooking game and wild food generally.

Last modified: 24-Mai-2008