Celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay, has blasted fellow chef Delia Smith, for her use of pre packaged food in a recent TV show and cookery book.
Speaking to the BBC, Ramsay said:
“I would expect students struggling on £15 a week to survive eating from a can but the nation’s favourite, all-time icon reducing us down to using frozen, canned food. It’s an insult,” he remarked.
Ramsay also hit out at restaurants who serve up food out of season and fail to use local produce. Read More »
Celebrity Chef, Marco Pierre White, has signed a deal with TV channel ITV1.
Marco is rumoured to be receiving £750,000 for his new ITV show ‘Marco’s Great British Feast’. He revealed to The Sun: “I need the money to pay for my divorce.”
Marco is also about to make a new US reality TV show called The Chopping Block.
Delia Smith new ‘cheat’ cookery book has been slammed by experts for featuring recipes which contain too much salt.
In ‘How To Cheat At Cooking’ Delia recommends various processed and ready made foods for use in her recipes however Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) said a single serving of one of the recipes, carbonara real quick, contained more than a whole day’s salt.
Delia’s publisher said the cookery writer “absolutely supported” people keeping check on how much salt they ate.
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Last year, Little Chef was saved from financial collapse by venture capitalists. Now in its 50th anniversary year, the home of the Olympic breakfast and Jubilee pancake is still in need of creative inspiration.
Enter British Chef Heston Blumenthal. The nostalgia of the Little Chef brand is a strong childhood memory for this chef but he will have to work his magic if he is to restore it to former glories.
Big Chef, Little Chef, to air on Channel 4 later this year, is the most extraordinary of culinary challenges – can a chef with a reputation for excellence and innovation transform the fortunes of a much loved but tired British institution?
Sue Murphy, Channel 4’s Head of Features said: “I’m delighted that one of Britain’s most unique food talents is joining Channel 4 Features. With his established interest in innovation and his dedication to culinary perfection, Heston is a perfect fit for us.” Read More »
Masterchef winner, author and cook Tommi Miers returns to bring the very best of Spanish cuisine to the table. Combining classic Spanish dishes, which Tommi prepares at home, with her adventures on the road across the Iberian countryside, she reveals the best-kept secrets from the kitchens of regional Spain. Read More »
Obesity is a major problem today, but if you think diets are a recent invention, then think again. Nine 21st-century overweight volunteers spend 24 days testing the weight-loss diets and fitness regimes that were popular in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and the 1920s.
Sir Roy Strong, former director of the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, thinks history holds the answer to the nation’s obesity epidemic. To prove it, he’s transformed a magnificent Victorian country house into a period health spa. It’s Sir Roy’s mission to help his modern-day dieters learn some life-changing lessons from their grandparents’ generation about how to eat, keep fit and live a healthy, happy, longer life.
Tuesday 18 March 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
Raymond Blanc, celebrity chef and star of BBC’s The Restaurant has slammed fellow chef, Delia Smith and accused her of “betraying” her home cookery values.
The French chef told the Daily Express: “Suddenly the great lady who helped us all to connect with our food has published a book which undermines her credibility.
“Just at the point where people were beginning to connect with their food and become aware of the joys of seasonal food, she suddenly gives us the opposite message and that’s sad.”
Delia started last night on BBC 2. Did you see it? What did you think?
It’s been six years, but Delia Smith is back on our screens with a new series. This time she breaks a few of the rules she herself created to explore a new way of cooking which tackles, head on, one of the realities of 21st-century cooking – ready-made ingredients.
Tonight’s episode puts the humble potato under the spotlight. Forget peeling and scrubbing – frozen mash can do the hard work for much-loved favourites such as shepherd’s pie and fish pie, plus a chilled summer soup. Frozen rosti are used in an easy-to-make loaf of bread. And a more adventurous Peruvian dish, Patatas Arequipo, is made with oven-ready potato wedges.
In a recent interview with The Radio Times magazine, queen of the kitchen, Delia Smith spilt the beans on what she realy thinks of her fellow celebrity chefs.
She revealed that she doesn’t entirely approve of Gordon Brown’s frequent bad language, saying “That’s not teaching. I like him when he does his recipes, but I’m not keen on his swearing.”
But Smith had only good things to say about Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver:
“Jamie is brilliant and has done more than anyone. I enjoy Nigella - she has such a passion for food. Read More »
Professional chef and award-winning restaurateur Simon Rimmer gives amateur food enthusiasts the chance to live their dream and run their own restaurant for a day. Couples are given a stylish restaurant, staff, diners and supplies and are tasked with creating their own lunch and dinner menus, and try to cut it as Head Chef and Front of House Manager. The 40 diners are the couples’ “judge and jury” and they only pay what they think the meal is worth – £25, £10 or nothing at all!
Each day, Simon, who is also the mentor, assesses the couple’s menu, offering advice on how to improve or simplify it. He also challenges the couple to include his very own “dish of the day” as part of the evening offering. Read More »
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