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Gordon Ramsay near ruin

 

Pie and Mash with Beckham

DESPERATE telly chef Gordon Ramsay’s entire career and business empire is hanging by a gossamer thread.  Only David Beckham can save his fortune and his reputation.

Gawd-awful Gordon’s father in law has dramatically quit the management of the holding company which runs the Ramsay restaurants allegedly owing it over £1m. Ramsay’s wife Tana is distraught, but is standing by her husband, as she did when Ramsay had the alleged affair  – though even that is now looking like it was a clever subterfuge to mask quite a different story (more of that another time). Continue reading →

 

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution sparks change in America

 

The thinning of America ...starts here

All over America, the TV show  Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution has sparked hundreds of ideas and events based on the same principles as his show.

***Danville’s Children’s Choice is taking a page out of Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution,” with a series of classes on cooking whole, healthy foods, from homemade pasta to handrolled sushi. The classes run through Aug. 7 in the Children’s Choice kitchens at 569 San Ramon Valley Blvd., Danville. For details, visit www.choicelunch.com.
***The school district in Crown Point Indiana will institute a variety of healthy eating programs beginning next school Continue reading →
 

Gordon Ramsay's mum heart attack hell

 

Gordon - Mummy's boy

Hell’s Kitchen chef Gordon Ramsay has cancelled all engagements to be at his mother’s bedside after her recent heart attack.

Despite his turbulent upbringing, a heroin addict brother and an abusive father, The F Word star Ramsay, 43, remains close to his social worker mum Helen Cosgrove. ‘My mother is my bedrock, my foundation in life and, along with my wife Tana and my daughters, equally the most important woman in my life,’ says the dad-of-four. T get my determination from her Continue reading →

 

Heston speaks – the kid in the sweet shop

 

Willy Wonka of the restaurant business

FROM A RECENT TALK BY HESTON BLUMENTHAL:

“I’ve had developed a short animated film— a dream-like journey through intricately choreographed kaleidoscopic images of lime glaciers and swirling turtles and dissolving fob watches and playing cards dancing a Busby-Berkeley style routine that leads the viewer to the door of the most magical and enticing-looking sweetshop you can imagine, with tall arched windows flanked by pillars with candy-cane stripes and a door knocker in the shape of a duck’s beak. Continue reading →
 

Delia fights for the right to cheat

 

'Ignorant': Delia pulls no punches

Delia Smith has come to the defence of her latest controversial book and TV series, calling its detractors ignorant.

This week, having bided her time during the media storm, she told Guardian bloggers, “I think a lot of people who criticised me did so out of ignorance of what I was doing.”

She added: “That kind of criticism can be tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper.”

‘How to Cheat at Cooking’ caused a stir when it hit our screens in February. The concept was a reworking of her 1971 cookery book of the same title for a modern audience.

The high priestess of celebrity chefs targeted viewers who like to cook but are pressed for time. She encouraged them to use branded convenience foods such as Aunt Bessie’s frozen mash as short-cut ingredients in traditional dishes like shepherd’s pie. Continue reading →

 

Condiment connoisseurs come out of the closet

 

chefs' saline solution

Over twenty celebrity chefs took part in an Observer Food Monthly survey, published yesterday, to discover which supermarket staples they would be lost without.

Among the brands listed by top chefs including Raymond Blanc, John Torode, Tom Conran, and Anthony Worral Thompson, there were a few shocking confessions.

Adam Byatt, a chef at Thyme, said he could not live without McVitie’s digestive biscuits. Rose Gray, co-owner of the River Café, chose Gentleman’s Relish, which she eats spread on rye toast. Tom Aitkens, founder of posh fish and chip shop Tom’s Place, plumped for Green and Black’s cocoa powder, while Torode stayed true to his roots and declared a weakness for Vegemite. Continue reading →

 

Meat and two veg for Hugh and the crew

 

Welcome to my abbatoir...The new series of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Spring starts on Wednesday – and veggies are in for the chop.

Hugh wants to encourage non meat-eaters to change their ways, and one of his guinea pigs will be committed vegetarian Susan Ampaw.

Poor Ms Ampaw, one of the students at Hugh’s butchery workshop, will have to assist him in preparing livestock for traditional British dishes such as shepherd’s pie.

This series is a follow up to the success of Chicken Run, when Hugh campaigned for free range hens. Continue reading →