Great British Chefs is British food website that contains thousands of recipes, instructional guides, videos, features on British food, and profiles of chefs and restaurants in the UK. It was founded by a series of entrepreneurs including Vimal and Gill Khosla, Ollie Lloyd and Alastair Creamer. Ollie Lloyd was the first CEO, from 2011 to 2019, and Vimal Khosla was the Chair.

Apps

The first Great British Chefs iOS app was released in July 2011 and featured 12 chefs, who each provided 5 recipes. The chefs included in the app were: Marcus Wareing, Nathan Outlaw, Tom Aikens, Martin Wishart, James Sommerin, Shaun Rankin, Frances Atkins, Nuno Mendes, Pascal Aussignac, Daniel Clifford, Agnar Sverisson, Simon Hulstone. The app was included in the Sunday Times' top 500 apps list, won a silver Lovie Award for Best Tablet App and was also featured in Apps Magazine's Top 100 Apps Ever. The second Great British Chefs app, 'Feastive', was released in November 2011. Great British Chefs' third app, 'Summertime', was produced in partnership with the online supermarket

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with a shopping list feature to purchase ingredients. The apps also have the ability to share recipes on

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s. A portion of the revenue from the sale of the Summertime app went to the charity

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. There was also an app for

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Reception

Reviews of the iOS apps were positive with ''The Telegraph'' praising the low price of compared to traditional cookbooks and the "superb photography

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makes it equally lovely to look at". Technology website Pocket-Lint praised the navigation of the app and listed it as "app of the day" on July 27, 2011.

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External links

Official site
British cooking websites IOS software