Food critic Jay Rayner has been unveiled as the speaker for this year’s Food and Drink iNet (Innovation Network) Innovation Awards.
The journalist, broadcaster and TV presenter, who is perhaps best known for his Observer food column, will be the guest speaker at the event in November.
Being held for the fourth year, the Innovation Awards, which takes place on 17 November at the Nottingham Conference Centre, aims to reward some of the most interesting innovations in the East Midlands food and drink industry.
Previous winners have included the development of a new material for food and drink packaging that featured non-leaching and antimicrobial properties, the invention of modified salt crystals to create a more intense flavour from less salt and thus allow a reduction in salt used in manufacturing, and the development of a sweet-tasting broccoli.
The awards have three categories open to firms - Most Innovative Food and Drink Business, Most Innovative Business Supplying into the Food and Drink Sector and Most Innovative Research Project.
The Campden BRI Innovation Champion 2011 will be chosen from the winner of the three categories.
Food and Drink iNet director Richard Worrall said: “We are delighted to have secured Jay Rayner as our guest speaker at the 2011 Food and Drink iNet Innovation Awards. Jay regularly pops up on Masterchef, is on the daytime cookery show Eating with the Enemy and sits on the panel of judges for American show Top Chef Masters. I am sure he will be a very interesting and insightful after dinner speaker at our event.”
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