The Woman Who Ate Scotland

After completing her cycle trip from Hong Kong to Sydney, Nell returned to Scotland, sure that her own country would have a rich seam of wonderful local produce, scenery and equally passionate producers and chefs. Nell pitched the concept of The Woman Who Ate Scotland with Nell as presenter; cycling, eating and cooking her way round Scotland to production company Tern Television and STV.

The first eight part series was screened on STV in April May 2006 and in UKTV Food Channel on August 2006. Nell transported her audience from the delights of deluxe raspberry and cream porridge and traditional lamb curry from the mosque in Edinburgh to succulent Arbroath smokies smoked over logs on the beach and sticky toffee pudding on the Caledonian Canal. The winning formula of eating, drinking, cycling and scenery won the hearts of almost 500,000 Scottish viewers on a weekly basis. The Woman Who Ate Scotland went on to become one of STV’s most highly rated television programmes.

A second series was immediately recommissioned and was screened in early summer of 2007 and also shown on UKTV Food in September 2007. During the second series, an average of 20 % of people watching television in Scotland were watching The Woman Who Ate Scotland. Both series were repeated on STV in the evening in the summer of 2008. The series has also been sold to the Asia Food Channel and Lifestyle TV in Australia and New Zealand.

Nell hopes to make another series or explore another country.