January 10, 2008 – 2:44 pm
UPDATE: After Cookalong Live airs on Channel 4, visit our forum and let us know what you thought of the show. We’d also love some pictures of your cookalong dinners to publish on the site….so get snapping!
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In the finale of The Big Food Fight season, Gordon Ramsay hosts an action-packed hour as he invites the nation to cook along with him: live.
In just one hour, Gordon will prove that everyone can prepare, and enjoy mouth-watering home-made food as he creates a three-course dinner that can be cooked by anyone and dished up in the space of sixty minutes.
No matter how rarely you cook, if you buy the ingredients, and get all the utensils you need ready, and then follow Gordon’s instructions live on the show, you can create a fantastic meal for four people.
Gordon will link up with Cookalongers nationwide, checking on their progress and giving tailored advice to make sure they get all the food right. Plus he’ll be talking to some very special secret Cookalongers whose identities will only be revealed on the night.
Great cooks, occasional cooks and takeaway addicts alike can all share in this nationwide dinner party. The only question is: who are you going to be cooking for on Friday the 18th? Read More »
January 8, 2008 – 3:07 pm
Forget about School dinners, Jamie Oliver is on a new crusade. In his new show, Jamies Fowl Dinners the naked chef will be investigating the life and death of chickens sold cheaply in our local supermarket.
In this interview, Jamie shares what he hoped to achieve by taking part in the show, and some of the shocking facts that all us meat eaters should know.
Why are you making this programme? What do you hope to achieve?
As far as I can see, the British poultry industry is at an incredibly vulnerable point right now and if we don’t start making changes, like shopping differently, we might not have a poultry industry in 20 years time.
In terms of what I hope to achieve, I think if even a small percentage of people watching were informed and decided to shop differently as a result, then that would make a real difference. Some of the people in the audience at the filming were shocked enough to want to change their shopping habits so I’m hoping some of the viewers at home will be affected in the same way. We should all be thinking why something is so cheap, rather than why others seem so expensive.
What did you find when you visited farms and talked to producers? Read More »
January 7, 2008 – 9:57 pm
This week Hugh’s Chicken Run launches Channel 4’s The Big Food Fight, a season of programming that aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food production, animal welfare and healthy eating.
Here, Hugh reveals just how far he was prepared to go to make this project and how he’s beginning to win this battle.
Your latest series, Hugh’s Chicken Run, is really something of a campaign, isn’t it?
Absolutely. The campaign’s called Chicken Out. We basically want to change the way chicken is produced in Britain. We think the more people understand, the more they’ll be inclined to upgrade the welfare of the birds that they buy. We’re leading with a call for free range, but we’re also putting a lot of pressure on supermarkets and the industry to raise the basic, basic standards of indoor, intensive production as well, so that even if more people choose free range, the standards for intensive farming will improve.
Why is this such an important issue to you?
Well, chickens were the first ever livestock that I raised at River Cottage. They’ve been giving me eggs and meat all my life, and now I rear my own. And I think they’re the front line of animal welfare in this country, and the way in which they’re farmed is something to which the public are denied access. You’ve got chicken farms with barbed wire all around them, which is not necessary to keep the birds in. I particularly target the supermarkets because they sell so much cheap chicken - it’s right at the heart of their price wars with each other, and they use it to try and gain market share. Read More »
January 4, 2008 – 9:36 am
Forget about School dinners, Jamie Oliver is on a new crusade. This time the naked chef will be investigating the life and death of chickens sold cheaply in our local supermarket.
In the show, which will air on Channel 4 this month, Jamie can be seen killing chickens himself as well as watching them be slaughtered professionally.
He told The Sun:
“I hated it. But I don’t think it’s sensational to show people the reality of how chickens live and die at the moment,” he said.
“It may be upsetting for some people, but that’s how things are. All of those birds would have been killed anyway, as thousands are every day up and down the country.
“And if seeing some of the practices helps to change the shopping habits of just 5% of people watching, then it will be worth it.”
Jamie has claimed that our expectation to be able to buy very cheap chicken is leading to awful conditions for the chickens and very poor return for farmers. Read More »
December 22, 2007 – 9:52 pm
This January, for the first time Channel 4 unites its three titans of cuisine – Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver – in a two week season of programming that challenges the people of Britain to think before they eat. During The Big Food Fight season, Hugh confronts the nation’s supermarkets, Jamie exposes the over-industrialised food industry and Gordon goes LIVE as he proves fast food can mean good food. The season will also include two Dispatches specials.
November 22, 2007 – 3:47 pm
This January, for the first time Channel 4 unites its three titans of cuisine – Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver – in a two week season of programming that challenges the people of Britain to think before they eat. Hugh confronts the nation’s supermarkets, Jamie exposes the over-industrialised food industry and Gordon goes LIVE as he proves fast food can mean good food. The season will also include two Dispatches specials.
Hugh’s Chicken Run presents Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with his biggest challenge yet, as he goes behind the chicken shed doors to change the way Britain consumes chicken. From supermarkets to takeaways, Hugh wants everyone to go free-range. Starting with the residents of his local town Axminster, and Tesco supermarket, Hugh goes on to challenge all the major supermarkets to change their ways. In this hard hitting series, Hugh learns about the reality of modern poultry
production and sets up his very own intensive farm – a living set which reveals just what happens to chickens that are then sold for less than the price of a pint of beer. Read More »
