Valentine Warner trained as a portrait painter before putting down the brush to pick up the spoon. He worked in London restaurants for eight years under chefs including Alastair Little and Rose Cararina, before setting up a private catering company Green Pea. With a strong focus on robust, flavoursome food, Valentine believes that a real understanding of excellent ingredients, producers and the natural history of food contributes as much to the plate as the cooking. A very keen outdoors man, Valentine can often be found seeking new adventures outside the kitchen and, most likely, fishing. Valentine’s first hit series What to Eat Now (BBC Two) on the best food that Autumn and Winter have to offer was closely followed by a second series focusing on Spring and Summer. He presented Valentine Warner: Coast to Coast(Good Food), in which he travelled the country fishing and cooking his catch, as well as Ration Book Britain (Yesterday) and Valentine Warner Eats The Sixties (Yesterday). Valentine has been a chef for Great British Food Revival (BBC Two),Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarch (ITV 1), Country Show Cook Off (BBC Two), Perfect… (Good Food) and My Kitchen (Good Food). More recently Valentine presented Valentine Warner Eats Scandinavia (Good Food) and two series called Hook It Cook It and Valentine Warner’s Wild Table: Canada (Fox). Valentine's two best-selling books accompanying What to Eat Now TV series. were followed by The Good Table: Adventures In and Around My Kitchen, and What to Eat Next, published in 2014. Valentine has also written for the Times, The Independent, Countryfile, Delicious, Waitrose Food Illustrated and Olive magazine, In addition to his food writing and TV presenting, Valentine Warner is also the co founder of Hepple Spirits, a Northumberland based distillery that focuses on creating deeply flavoursome and intensely botanical spirits while using machinery more often found in the perfume industry.