Cooking demonstrations featuring
celebrity TV chef Manu Feildel!

At the main marquee on the Village Oval, all weekend.

Don’t miss celebrity TV chef Manu Feildel, from Channel 7's My Kitchen Rules, at this year’s Festival! Twice-daily see Manu cook up a storm in the big tent using regional fresh produce.

One of Australian television’s most prominent chefs, Manu Feildel, will be centrepiece of the 2010 Grampians Grape Escape Wine and Food Festival.

Sydney-based Manu will host the festival’s popular Celebrity Chef sessions, enabling food lovers to learn from the master in intimate settings.

Manu, who is known to viewers of Ready, Steady Cook, is also a regular presenter on 9am with David and Kim.

And the Seven Network has just announced that Manu will co-host its new prime-time program My Kitchen Rules in 2010.

But it is his talent as one of the country’s great chefs for which he is best known in food circles.

It seems this is a talent that courses through his veins – Manu’s great grandfather was a pastry chef, his grandfather and father were chefs, his cousin is a chef in the USA and his mother is also a great cook.

Despite running away to join the circus at 13, he had decided by age 15 that the road to becoming a professional clown was long and he became an apprentice in his father’s restaurant.

His career has since taken him around the world to the UK where he was Head Chef for a restaurant nominated for the mantle of best seafood restaurant in the UK in 1998.

In 2004, Manu was approached to spearhead a new restaurant, Bilsons, at Sydney’s Radisson Hotel.

In its second year, the restaurant won two Chefs’ Hats, taking it to three the following year.

Manu’s career has turned full circle, and he has now returned to his roots cooking contemporary French cuisine.

In March 2009, he took over his first restaurant, L’Etoile, in Paddington, Sydney, where his passion for modern French bistro food was rewarded in August with his first Chefs’ Hat.

This year, Manu also won the ‘Shoot the Chef’ competition for the Sydney Good Food Month – Manu was in his element dressed as a clown riding a unicycle in an old 1960s kitchen!

2010 menus are coming soon — yet to be finalised.

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