Food for Heroes - What Would You Feed Your Hero? the Official Help for Heroes Cook Book Submitted By: Accent Press Wednesday, 20 May 2009

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Food for Heroes - What Would You Feed Your Hero? The Official Help for Heroes Cook Book Submitted by: Accent Press Wednesday, 20 May 2009

WHAT would you feed your hero? It’s the ultimate dinner-party quiz question and for Prime Minister Gordon Brown it would be a "Chequers Steak Pie” served to Scottish athlete Eric “Chariots of Fire” Liddell. But TV presenter Fern Britton would serve a warm and tasty gooseberry crumble to all the injured servicemen and women and the people who help them get their lives back on track. The Prime Minister and his political rival David Cameron join a list of more than 80 celebrities, politicians, celebrity chefs, sporting heroes, war veterans and serving military personnel to reveal the food they would serve up to their personal heroes in new charity cookbook Food For Heroes (http://www.foodforheroes.co.uk). After witnessing the plight of wounded soldiers in Iraq, Squadron Leader Jon Pullen returned from his tour of duty in Basra and decided he wanted to help servicemen and women like them. He founded an enthusiastic team of service people who set about asking more than 100 celebrities and servicemen and women what would you feed your hero? Published by independent publisher Accent Press Ltd (http://www.accentpress.co.uk) to coincide with the first Armed Forces Day on June 27, 2009,Food For Heroes (http://www.foodforheroes.co.uk) is the cookery book equivalent of the X Factor chart-topping single Hero. All profits from the book are being donated to the Help for Heroes (http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk) charity set up to help wounded military personnel. Full list of Contributors: Political Figures Gordon Brown MP - Prime Minister David Cameron MP - Leader of the Conservative Party Nick Clegg MP - Leader of the Liberal Democrats John Hutton MP - Secretary of State for Defence Stephen Ladyman MP - MP for South Thanet Tony Blair - Former Prime Minister Personalities Kate Adie – Journalist Dame Eileen Atkins - Writer and Actress Bryn Parry - Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Help for Heroes Jane Wenham-Jones - Author and Journalist Paula Wilcox – Actress

Page 1 Aisleyne - Businesswoman and Fashion Designer Simon Weston OBE - Former Welsh Guardsman Dame Judi Dench - TV and Film Actress Edward Fox – Actor Sir David Jason – Actor Dame Vera Lynn - Singer, Entertainer and The Forces’ Sweetheart Andy McNab - Ex-Special Forces and Author Jim Broadbent – Actor Bruce Forsyth CBE - TV Presenter Emma Parry - Co-Founder and Managing Director of Help for Heroes Trading Ltd Ewan McGregor – Actor Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor - The Duke of Westminster Tony Hadley - Frontman of 1980s legendary band Spandau Ballet Fern Britton - TV Presenter Hero Bear - The Mascot of Help for Heroes Ross Kemp - Actor and Presenter Chris Moon - Ex-soldier, charity worker, leadership consultant Stephen Fry - Actor, Comedian, Writer, TV Presenter Private Harry Patch - The Last Surviving Tommy Sports personalities Ricky Hatton MBE – Boxer Jonny Wilkinson MBE - England and Newcastle Rugby Star Sir Steve Redgrave - Five-time Olympic Gold Medal Winner Dame Kelly Holmes - Olympic Athlete and ex-Army Sergeant Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE - Britain’s Most Successful Wheelchair Athlete Colin Jackson - British Athletics Legend Chefs Anton Mosimann OBE – Chef Ainsley Harriott - TV Presenter, Chef Peter Gladwin – Chef Chris Tombling - Head Chef at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London Paul Gayler - Executive Chef at Lanesborough Hotel Chris and James Tanner - Celebrity Chefs Antony Worrall Thompson - Restaurateur and TV chef Cyrus Todiwala - Executive Chef of the Café Spice Namasté Restaurant Group Colonel Ian Blanks - Royal Engineer Brian Turner CBE - Chef, TV Celebrity Andrew Bennett - Executive Chef, The Park Lane Hotel Sergeant Dawn Bailey - RAF Chef Senior Aircraftman Adam Dover - RAF Chef Corporal Francesca Allen - RAF Chef

Page 2 Lance Corporal Nick Gillan - Army Chef Military - Chiefs General Sir Kevin O’Donoghue KCB CBE - Chief of Defence Materiel Admiral Sir Jonathon Band KCB ADC - First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff General Sir Richard Dannatt KCB CBE MC ADC - Chief of the General Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup - Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Glen Torpy - Chief of the Air Staff Lady Alison Loader - Wife of Commander-In-Chief Air Command Right Reverend Thomas Matthew Burns SM BA BD - Bishop of the Forces Military - Veterans Warrant Officer Andrew Wiseman - Ex-Prisoner of War Leading Aircraftsman Raymond Lancaster - RAF Motor Boat Crewman Squadron Leader John Blair DFM - RAF World War II Pilot Signalman Martin Ratia - Army Veteran Lieutenant Agnes Hamilton - Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service ‘KC’ - UK Special Forces Sub Lieutenant Donald Keable DSC - Royal Navy and World War II Veteran John Prior - Royal Navy Veteran Air Commodore Charles Clarke OBE - President & Chairman of the RAF Ex-POW Assoc Lieutenant Mike McClellan - Former Army Officer Military - Serving Captain Eamonn Sullivan - Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (TA) Lieutenant Commander Andrew ‘Tank’ Murray - Royal Navy Pilot Captain Chris Underhill MBE – Royal Engineers Flight Sergeant Alan Bowman - RAF Engineer Captain Dave Rigg MC - Royal Engineer Flight Lieutenant Paul Duke - RAF Engineer Corporal Richie Dunse - RAF Air Traffic Control Assistant Warrant Officer 2 Kieron Conlan - Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Squadron Leader Chris Snellock - RAF Officer Warrant Officer Pete Slater - RAF Warrant Officer Leading Hand Naheed Tariq - Royal Navy Lieutenant Colonel John Stroud-Turp - Royal Artillery Officer Corporal Steve Atkin - Army JNCO and Firefighter Lance Corporal Chris Haggan - Royal Irish Regiment Corporal Richard Street MC - Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Warrant Officer Al Sylvester MBE - RAF Warrant Officer Commander I T Roberts OBE - Royal Naval Officer Ranger Andy Allen - The Royal Irish Regiment

Page 3 Captain Sally Durnford - Royal Army Medical Corps Physiotherapist Lieutenant Commander Rich Sutton - Royal Navy Pilot Flight Lieutenant Tom Humphreys - RAF Engineer Squadron Leader Jon Pullen - RAF Engineer Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman DFC - RAF Pilot Wing Commander Mark Gilligan - RAF Engineering Officer Flight Sergeant Paul Quinlan - RAF Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Major Jake Little MC - Yorkshire Regiment Officer The RAF - Nimrod Fleet Squadron Leader Al Pinner MBE – RAF Squadron Leader Gillian George - Ministry of Defence Civil Servant Flight Lieutenant John Gorman - RAF Engineer Wing Commander Seb Kendall - RAF Regiment Officer Group Captain Stuart Atha - Station Commander, RAF Coningsby Lieutenant Jim Berry - The Royal Irish Regiment Corporal Hannah Simson - RAF Administrator Offical launch: Friday, June 26, Help for Heroes official cookbook Food For Heroes is launched at the City of London’s Armed Forces Day celebrations at City Hall, London. For images, sample recipes, interviews, and to find out who the celebrities put on a pedestal, please call Alison Stokes, PR and Production Manager, Accent Press Ltd. Direct line: 01443 800353. Switchboard: 01443 710930 email: [email protected] Accent Press Ltd (http://www.accentpress.co.uk)

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