One year on from the start of Big Food Fight season, Channel 4’s latest recruit, Heston Blumenthal joins the line-up in January for a follow-up, the Great British Food Fight, which aims to celebrate the best of British food and explore issues around food production.

Launching on 19th January, chef Heston Blumenthal, who has three Michelin stars, sets out to transform the menu of the troubled Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants in Big Chef, Little Chef.

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The Great British Food Fight will kick off Channel 4’s winter season on Channel 4. The series will bring together four of the country’s most renowned chefs – Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay – for the Great British Food Fight, a season of programmes celebrating the best of British food and exploring issues around animal welfare in a number of hard-hitting films.

The season is a follow-up to the Big Food Fight in January this year, which delivered some of Channel 4’s highest ratings for 2008 and put food production and animal welfare at the centre of public debate.

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