Chef Bill Granger makes a blue cheese and pancetta tray loaf on today’s Christmas Kitchen with James Martin.

The Australian-born restaurateur, food writer and television chef is a self-taught cook who opened his first restaurant in inner-city Sydney in 1993. Two further restaurants opened in Sydney in 1996 and 2005, and in 2008 Bill ventured into Japan and opened a restaurant in Tokyo and Yokohama in early 2010. In 2011 Bill opened his first UK restaurant, Granger & Co in London’s Westbourne Grove.