BIA'S Kitchen Show: How Bia Rodrigues-Perry Turned Food Into a Media Business

Bia Rodrigues-Perry has built BIA'S Kitchen Show from a lockdown takeaway into a UK media platform spanning food, menopause, wellbeing and entrepreneurship.

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BIA'S Kitchen Show: How Bia Rodrigues-Perry Turned Food Into a Media Business

Bia Rodrigues-Perry runs a media platform out of what began as a lockdown food business. The Brazilian-born presenter, producer and marketing strategist, now settled in Warwickshire, has built BIA'S Kitchen Show into a show that treats food as the starting point for wider conversations — culture, wellbeing, business, and the people behind each story.

Before any of that, she had a marketing career in Brazil, working with well-known international brands. Her edge was communication: she knew how people talk, and she knew how to make companies sound like they were talking to someone rather than at them. Moving to the UK after meeting her husband wiped the slate. No contacts, no reputation, a culture she had to figure out from the inside. "I had to adapt to a new culture, build a new network and prove myself all over again," she says.

The pandemic prompted BIA'S Kitchen, a premium takeaway. It was practical more than visionary — a way to keep going while giving people something comforting during an uncertain period. When the world reopened, she looked at what she actually had. She wasn't only cooking. She was producing, presenting, marketing, telling stories. Those skills had been sitting on a shelf.

Putting them to work gave her the show. Series one, Empowering the Independent Food Industry, featured 21 independent restaurants and chefs across the UK, all rebuilding after the toughest run hospitality had ever taken. The reaction was far bigger than she planned for. Her first book came out of it, and the show outgrew its original brief. "Food is still the invitation," she says. "But the real purpose has become the people behind it."

Then the brands came calling. Businesses wanted the storytelling she was already doing for herself, so she opened BIA'S Marketing, Production & PR, offering strategy, branding, video production and publicity, along with presenting, documentary production, event coverage, brand partnerships, social media and photography.

Hot Flushes & Hot Foods, her newest series, takes on menopause, nutrition and wellbeing — subjects that rarely get an honest airing. Other series have gone into travel, entrepreneurship and community.

She has picked up a fair amount of recognition: Outstanding Entrepreneur, an Achievement Award and Best Marketing Company at the Cotswolds Awards, plus national finalist status for Content Creator of the Year 2026. Her book, BIA'S Kitchen Show: A Culinary Journey of Gratitude, was published alongside all of it. She keeps the awards in perspective. "Success isn't measured simply by numbers or awards, but by the impact each story has on the people who watch it," she says.

What she wants next is broadcast-quality production and documentary work. Having already rebuilt one career from scratch, she isn't treating the next stage as a leap.

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