Local Food Heroes Gary Rhodes UKTV
UKTV Local Food Heroes was a competition to find, celebrate and award the UK’s best independent food businesses – those who championed local produce with a strong connection to their community. I was selected for the finals, visited by celebrity chef Simon Rimmer at the Little Green Men Chilli Farm. We visited a local market, cooked for the public and I progressed to the final judging by Gary Rhodes. Simon Rimmer and I remained friends. We ran into each other many times at the local and national food events and throughout my career as The Chilliman.
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Local Food Heroes
Source: UKTV Quote: “The chef searches for the independent shops and small businesses around the country that make the finest local produce.”

Gary Rhodes
I would like to pay tribute to the late great Food Evangelist and Celebrity Chef Gary Rhodes who had a positive lasting impact on my life, my cooking and my attitude towards food growing, food production and locally sourced cuisine.
I would like to thank Gary Rhodes and his family for his vibrant, exciting, new, unrelenting, highest quality of service to the industry and to us all as British local food producers.
“Gary was the first rock star of cooking, making it cool.” (Quote: Prue Leith of The Great British Bake Off)
Gary Rhodes was the chef that “put British cuisine on the map” (Quote: Gordon Ramsay).
RK Alker Funny Kids’ Author AKA The ChilliMan from LittleGreenMen Chilli. His love for growing chillies as a local food evangelist and food and drink event specialist made him the country’s highest-profile commercial chilli grower, champion of local producers and star of TV, radio and press.
A Great Big Hand-Waggly Thankyou!
I would like to thank everyone—all the friends, local producers, press and agencies that contributed to my success.
There is not a day goes by that does not have a reminder or memory of this colourful and truly spectacular period in my life as The ChilliMan from Little Green Men Chilli in Lancashire, England.
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R.K. Alker is now a Children’s Fiction Author from Lancashire who writes funny kids’ books for age 7 upwards and colouring, activity and rhyming picture books for young children aged 4-8 years.

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RK Alker is an author of funny children’s books from Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, Earth!
My little girls think I am the Best Funny Kids Author in the World.
R.K. Alker is a Famous, Funny, Celebrity Children’s Author, Grower, Cook, Local Food Evangelist and an injured former 999 Emergency Ambulanceman. His love for growing chillies as a local food evangelist and food and drink event specialist made him the country’s highest-profile chilli grower, champion of local producers and star of TV, radio and press.
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R.K. Alker is also The Chilliman from Little Green Men a master of The Ancient Lancastrian Art of Ecky Thump! and can be found on Blogger.com & Yell