Jamie Owen will return home to Pembrokeshire to preside over the biggest night in the Welsh food and drink calendar.
The annual Wales True Taste Food and Drink awards will be held on November 11th at the County Showground, Withybush.
BBC Wales Today presenter Jamie was brought up in Pembroke Dock and has early memories of holidaying with his grandparents and tucking in to their delicious home-grown food.
Jamie said: “My grandmother was the most amazing cook and my love of food owes much to her. Pheasants and trout would be on their kitchen table, the fields yielded blackberries and apples and we learned early on that you didn’t need shops to eat well — every evening we were sent over the fields to collect milk from the farm next door.
“My dad was a solicitor and behind his office in Pembroke Dock he kept a huge allotment which kept us in vegetables.”
Pembrokeshire was chosen as the location for this year’s awards ceremony, in recognition of its success in producing numerous award-winning products over the years.
The awards reward innovation and excellence in food and drink and retail and hospitality sectors.
For more information about the Wales True Taste Food and Drink Awards 2010-11, see www.truetaste.tv.
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