Gilded Balloon Productions and Seabright Productions present

Hardeep Singh Kohli - The Nearly Naked Chef

Available for touring in spring/summer 2010
Visit official tour site for dates and further details

Who could wish for more from an evening’s entertainment than to arrive with your carrier bag bulging at the seams with carefully selected ingredients and a whole heap of expectations, and to leave an hour later with your taste buds bursting with the flavours of fine cooking and your mind abuzz with a mouth watering selection of pitch-perfect anecdotes?

The Nearly Naked Chef is a wonderfully laid back evening of arch stories and aromatic stir-fries.
Just think Ready Steady Cook but with good cooking and great conversation.

Following its premiere season at the Edinburgh fringe, where it was seen by over 5000 people, Hardeep's debut solo show is touring in a full-length version with interval during 2010 (with the hour version still available by request).

Hardeep is a regular reporter on the highly successful BBC1 programme The One Show. He is also a regular guest on BBC 1's Question Time, This Week with Andrew Neil and was a former Newsnight Review presenter.

For Channel 4 he has written and presented the BAFTA Award winning In Search of the Tartan Turban, the critically acclaimed and award winning Hardeep Does... and the seminal gambling series 50 Says You'll Watch This. He also presented a ground-breaking documentary about Scientology, The Beginners Guide to L.Ron Hubbard.

Hardeep was runner-up on the first series of Celebrity Masterchef which led to two series for UKTV Food, New British Kitchen and Chefs and the City. His love of food is expressed in his larger than average belly and the publication in 2008 of his first book Indian Takeaway, currently nominated for an Independent Book Award. He has written about food for Olive, Observer Food Monthly, The Spectator, The Times, The Sunday Times and various other publications and has just been appointed as a columnist for Waitrose Food Illustrated.  Hardeep has also been announced as a member of the judging panel for the Soil Association Awards 2009.

As a journalist he has a column in Scotland on Sunday called "hardeep is your love" which has seen him twice nominated in 2007 and 2008 for Scottish Columnist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. He is also Contributing Editor on the Spectator Magazine, has written for the Independent on Sunday, The Times, Observer Woman, Conde Nast Traveller to name but a few.

Having started his broadcasting career in radio he still holds the wireless very dear, presenting extensively across Radio 4, from primetime slots like Midweek, Saturday Live to The Food Programme. He has made a plethora of documentaries for Radios 2, 3 and 4, and has presented across Radio 5 Live.

What the papers say…

'As multi-tasking multi-media cultural polymaths go, writer, cook, broadcaster, columnist and all-round top bloke Hardeep Singh Kohli is pretty much up there in the can do stakes.'
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