A woman with an eye for a “unique crunch” is to appear on television with celebrity chef James Martin encouraging people to eat locally-produced fruit.
Sarah Calcutt is business development manager at the English fruit marketing group Norman Collett, , which is based in Paddock Wood. She will appear with celebrity chef James Martin on BBC TV in January to extol the virtues of locally grown apples.
One variety is the Rubens, which will be discussed on the programme, Great British Food Revival.
She said: “There has been a realisation amongst the British public that English grown apples are quite simply much tastier than imported out-of-season apples, something that many of the country’s best chefs have been saying for years.
“When it comes to flavour intensity and that “unique crunch” that we’re all looking for in a good apple, Rubens scores very highly with British palettes, and that’s something James wanted to focus on during his filming in a Rubens orchard in Kent for the Great British Food Revival.”
The programme includes a visit to Brogdale Farm – home of the national fruit collection – in Faversham, and a farm where the apples are harvested.