MasterChef's Gregg Wallace makes food shortages plea as he's given MBE by Princess Anne
28.02.2023 - 21:07
/ ok.co.uk
MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace urged the public to use tinned or frozen vegetables to combat food shortages after collecting an MBE. The 58-year-old broadcaster, who fronts the popular cooking show and its spin-offs alongside John Torode, has been recognised for services to food and charity. He collected the award from Princess Anne at a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
Born in Peckham in south-east London, Wallace sold vegetables on a council estate before beginning his career in the Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market. He started George Allan’s Greengrocers in 1989 and has gone on to have a successful broadcasting career, presenting shows including Veg Talk on BBC Radio 4, Saturday Kitchen, Eat Well For Less, Inside The Factory, Turn Back Time, Harvest and Supermarket Secrets. Asked about vegetable shortages, Gregg said: “It’s got me relooking at preserved vegetables – tinned, frozen.They are not an inferior item.
“I live in a house with a beautiful Italian, I don’t know where we would be without tinned tomatoes, tinned beans. Borlotti I mean, not Heinz.” He urged the public to “get into your veg”. “There is nothing healthier and more filling than vegetables,” he added.
“Learn more and more veg recipes. It is so good for you, it’s got no fat in it and it’s so filling.” He added that if you can cook pasta, couscous and rice with vegetables then “a whole world of calorie possibilities across five continents has just opened up to you”. Gesturing to a statue of Lord Nelson nearby, he said the troops he led were “more active” than their French counterparts because the vice-admiral spent “so much time” securing fresh food.
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