Mark Earnden
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ExpoChef has won the award of North East Business of the Year 2009!! Sponsored by Barclays Bank.
Entrepreneurial Chef Mark Earnden is the presenter of a show called Expo Chef, which helps promote healthy eating in the community. Expo chef is an interactive cooking show that demonstrates how to make food fun, easy and healthy.
Mark left a lucrative career in the IT industry to chase his dream, and 10 years later his gamble paid off, as he is now one of the North East’s most recognisable chefs. To reach today’s goals he decided to travel the world and gain as much cooking experience and food knowledge as possible. He returned from his travels as a head chef!
Returning home he was head chef in a number of restaurants but wanted to work for himself. Mark felt passionately about attempting to educate the community about healthy eating, finding the next generation of chefs and to encourage more people to cook at home. In 2005 Expo Chef was born. The shows have been seen by almost 500,000 people in the north east alone. Mark goes into schools and communities to promote healthy eating and tries to steer people away from fast and ready-made foods – making the preparation and cooking fun and appealing to both children and their parents alike. Marks passion has also gained him awards in the North East for outstanding work in the community and was recently short listed for national recognition in The Caroline Walker Trust Award ceremony in London.
The BBC has filmed Mark for factual shows based around this country’s struggle against obesity. Many production companies have expressed interest in Marks quest to make the country healthy and get them back into their kitchens cooking fresh produce.
Recently, Mark became the “community chef” for The Co-operative Group. This exciting opportunity will involve him travelling the country and Ireland taking the road show into many communities around the UK and working with The Co-op brand to deliver key healthy eating messages to their members and customers.
News July 09 -
`A NEW school meals scheme is to be offered to students across the county. The Fuel to Go initiative has seen a host of nutritious dishes devised for middle and high school canteens to give youngsters a choice of healthy meals. It has been devloped by Expo chef Mark Earnden and schools` catering managers.
The project is based around a coffee shop culture and is designed to appeal to young people, whilst meeting national standards on nutrition. The new menu will include an array of culinary treats, and each food item will be marked with red, amber and green stickers to indicate levels of fat, salt and sugar – following the traffic light system used by the Food Standards Agency.`
When he’s not cooking and demonstrating Mark like to keep fit by running and circuit training and when time allows, fishing and Extreme Sports.
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