TV chefs Simon King and David Myers - better known as The Hairy Bikers - have praised Lancashire’s “great” food culture.
At a book signing in Preston the culinary duo said the Lancashire hotpot typified “good, honest British food.”
The bikers were promoting their new recipe book ‘Mums Know Best’, a side dish to the hit BBC TV show.
The programme, which is currently on our screens, follows the bikers around Britain as they try to uncover lost local recipes and family dishes.
Biker Simon said: “The Lancashire hotpot is a case in point. It's a dish we should dissect.
“There are hundreds of different recipes for the hotpot, because each individual family that has handed it down through the generations has put a little tweak in it or added something different.”
He added: “That's the great thing about our cuisine. It’s so diverse!”
David, who once studied art at Preston Polytechnic, said the pair had come across some weird and wonderful Lancashire recipes on their travels, including a bacon pudding.
Simon said: “It was like jam roly-poly but with bacon - it was superb!”
David said the wide range of traditional local produce on sale in Lancashire was “unreal”.
He paid tribute to local markets such as Accrington and Bury where excellent food is available at a decent price.
“You can buy game, fresh fish and meat. It’s like Harrods but normal prices,” he said.
The bikers, who have cooked from an early age, joked that they may call their next tour “Dads Know Best”, because they have met a lot of men with a passion for cooking on their travels.
Over 300 people came to meet the duo at the Preston book signing.
Tori Pollett from Waterstone’s said: “We were really chuffed with how the event went. The guys were really nice and they went down really well with the crowd.”
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