Editing Chef! (section)

==Production==
According to Lenny Henry:<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/lenny_henry_danny_robins_2.shtml Lenny Henry and Danny Robins Interview - Part 2]{{Dead link|date=July 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from a BBC website</ref>
:The first episode of ''Chef!'' was developed over two years, and so [[Peter Tilbury]] and I were really put through loads of hoops about character motivation. Why is this character such an arsehole? Is this the right kind of character for Lenny Henry to be playing? All that kind of stuff. Once we got through that and they [[greenlight|greenlit]] the series, Peter then had something like eight or nine weeks to write the rest of it. The remaining five episodes were much easier to write because we'd had every argument about who, what, where, and how. The world had been mapped out. Actually, the very first episode of ''Chef!'' was the hardest one to watch for me because we'd worked so hard on it and you could see all the things that had been rewritten in the first episode.

Lenny Henry was coached in cooking techniques at the [[L'Ortolan]] Restaurant, in [[Shinfield]], [[Reading, Berkshire]].<ref>[http://nigelmarriage.com/workexperience.aspx Work Experience] from chef Nigel P. Marriage's website</ref> The restaurant was modelled on, and many scenes were filmed at, [[Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons]], a restaurant in [[Oxfordshire]] owned by chef [[Raymond Blanc]].{{citation needed|date=November 2008}} Many other scenes were filmed at [[Nether Winchendon House]], in [[Buckinghamshire]]. The third series was shot at [[Teddington Studios]] in Middlesex. [[Celebrity chef]] [[John Burton Race]] acted as food consultant for the show.

The first two series were shot on film and directed in the style of a drama series, with the finished episodes shown to screening audiences.

Lenny Henry stated on his website that he and Tilbury had worked on a storyline for another series, but that nothing came of it.<ref name="Lenny Henry FAQ">{{cite web | url = http://www.lennyhenry.com/home/faq.aspx | title = FAQs | publisher = Lenny Henry dot com (Lenny Henry's official website) | last = Henry | first = Lenny | accessdate = 2007-09-02 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929023052/http://www.lennyhenry.com/home/faq.aspx | archivedate = 29 September 2007}}</ref>