Which UK Celebrity Chef Are You?

British Chefs, Celebrity Chefs, Delia Smith, Feature, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson: 0 Comments; 12 Mar 2008 Here's a fun little game diversion from IVillage UK: Do you tiptoe round your kitchen in vertiginous heels, cooking up retro delights, or are you a fan of the cool, calm and collected cooking style of the professional chef? Our culinary quiz will tell you if you're a Nigella, a Gary, a Delia or a Jamie in the kitchen ... What?! No ****** Gordon Ramsay? What the **** kind of donkey **** is this? That's a lotta ******** not having Gordon the **** there! They should sod off! The ****ers. What a ******** nerve! {More...}

Thanks to Chefs, UK Food Industry ‘Runs A Fowl’ of Ready Supply

British Chefs, Food Supply, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, News: 0 Comments; 09 Mar 2008 Not one, but three stories revolving around Jaime Oliver this week. In the United Kingdom, celebrity chefs have crazy, mad followings. I mean what in America Oprah can do for a book sale, chefs there can do the same for food. For instance, when Gordon Ramsay made a live meal on television where people where to cook along with him a month or so ago the supermarkets in England ran out, completely ran out of the meal's ingredients. So when chefs talk there, people follow in overwhelming droves. With this in mind and therefore in the better watch out what ... {More...}

British Chefs, Delia Smith, Gordon Ramsay, News: 0 Comments; 04 Mar 2008 Ok, this one gives me a chuckle. First let me explain, mostly for us Americans, who exactly Delia Smith is. In short, she's as famous in the United Kingdom as Julia Child. In many ways, she's the television chef who three decades ago got things rolling. For some reason, here "in the States" we got Graham Kerr, the Galloping Gourmet, but we never had exposure to Delia. She's the grandmother, the Dame of British television cooking. And for the last eight or so years has been semi-retired from the airwaves. During her absence, ... {More...}

British Chefs, Last Restaurant Standing, Raymond Blanc, TV Show Reviews: 0 Comments; 03 Mar 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney Last Restaurant Standing (BBC America) Not sure why, but having heard the premise I didn't think I would like this new reality competition food show. So much so it delayed my watching it, missing the first episode or two. I can report I was happily mistaken. Sometimes it's in the editing, the pace, the coverage. Whatever, this show has it. For one, the completing folks here (usually married couples, but there are two twin sisters) have a real restaurant. I thought they were going to jam these people in ... {More...}