Lotte Duncan

Lotte is a skilled and highly experienced broadcaster. Recognised as a leading authority on English cooking, she brings thirty years of food experience to her television presenting, live stage hosting and compering with a light, friendly and humorous touch.

Lotte is Patron, Director and one of two event organisers (with Jon Hackett) who run Thame Food Festival

2019 sees Lotte and her partner Jon launching their brand new Food Festival in Bradford on Avon in sunny Wiltshire on Saturday June 1st. Bradford on Avon Food and Drink Festival

Organising Food Festivals is a huge undertaking and a lot of that time is spent choosing the stall holders – and sampling all new ones. This means that there is always high quality produce at the Festival. Lotte’s contacts enables the demonstration stage to be brimming with culinary talent!

Magimix UK are Headline Sponsors for both festivals.

Since 2015 Lotte has judged and co-ordinated for Great Taste Awards – 2019 sees almost 13,000 products judged by 500 judges.

In 2019 Lotte joined Love British Food as one of their Ambassadors.

Aside from Food Festival organising, Lotte hosts different stages for the BBC Good Food Shows and HCP Events – throughout the year – speaking to all the big names in food TV including John Torrode, Gregg Wallace, Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Michel Roux Jr, James Martin and Tom Kerridge amongst many others. At the summer show, this also includes many TV gardeners too.

December 2015 Lotte went to Dubai to host the Interview Stage there at the inaugural BBC Good Food Show there.

The Interview Stage has become a popular destination at the shows for both the chefs and the public, where the interviews are always lively, fun and relaxed. For the big chefs, it can often have an audience of 1,000+

She has been a regular face and one of the resident chefs on Food Network UK and has filmed many interstitials for the channel including Made with Love for Valentines with Matt Evers and ‘Keep calm and plan ahead Christmas in September weekend’.

Lotte is also the face of Food Network’s online Cookery School having filmed many short form films on the website with scores of different recipes from Bread to Cakes to Pies.

2011/12 Lotte was one of the main judges for the OFM (Observer Food Monthly) Awards and The World Bread Awards.

Her cookery book – Lotte’s Country Kitchen was published by Absolute Press in 2010.

In 2010 Lotte flew to New York for Food Network UK and filmed and competed in the UK version of Chopped which also aired on Food Network US.

Other recent television appearances have included BBC’s Countryfile: Summer Diaries and Castle in the Country as well as ITV1’s Heart of the Country and Five’s Cooking the Books. She was also a regular presenter and chef for five years on UKTV’s Great Food Live.