One year on from the start of Big Food Fight season, Channel 4’s latest recruit, Heston Blumenthal joins the line-up in January for a follow-up, the Great British Food Fight, which aims to celebrate the best of British food and explore issues around food production.
Launching on 19th January, chef Heston Blumenthal, who has three Michelin stars, sets out to transform the menu of the troubled Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants in Big Chef, Little Chef.
TV’s celebrity chefs have been very busy this year bringing out lots of books, but which of them might find their way into your Christmas stocking this year?
Well, we’ve had a look at various book retailer websites and found that most have a different top ten, but Jamie Oliver’s new book is at the top of the list for the majority of them.
So let’s take a look at our choice of the top ten of celeb chef cookbooks. Follow the links for more information.
The Great British Food Fight will kick off Channel 4’s winter season on Channel 4. The series will bring together four of the country’s most renowned chefs – Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay – for the Great British Food Fight, a season of programmes celebrating the best of British food and exploring issues around animal welfare in a number of hard-hitting films.
The season is a follow-up to the Big Food Fight in January this year, which delivered some of Channel 4’s highest ratings for 2008 and put food production and animal welfare at the centre of public debate.
Tonight’s menu comprises a deliciously simple starter of angel hair pasta with crab, chilli and lime; a succulent main of duck breast with dried cherry and port sauce with fondant potatoes; and for dessert, Gordon’s special take on a favourite classic: tiramisu. 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.
Friday 7 November 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
Gordon Ramsay has been named the world’s highest paid chef.
The chef who appeared on Channel 4 last night on Cookalong Live, makes £15million a year mostly because of his huge TV career in America.
Ramsay gets £157,000 an episode for the US versions of Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. He also has a £2million per year exclusive TV deal with Channel 4 and earns £1million for every book he releases.
Business partner and dad-in-law Chris Hutcheson told The Sun: “Next year will be stunning — everything is firing on all cylinders.
Celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay has revealed that he has banned his children from this weeks Cookalong Live on Channel 4 in case they swear.
Gorodn, who is famous for his foul mouth told The Sun that Megan, ten, and eight-year-old Jack and Tilly, six, will help out with the cooking an d table setting behind the scenes.
But he admitted: “I don’t think we should put a camera on them because when it goes t*ts up they’re all going to be swearing.”
He added that his son Jack is “obsessed” with Little Gordon on YouTube.
Gordon, 41, said: “It took me about three hours to explain it wasn’t me talking to nanny.”
Victoria Beckham is just one of the celebrity guests lined up to appear on next week’s Cookalong Live with Gordon Ramsay on Channel 4.
Ramsay told The Sun: “Victoria can cook. We went round to dinner at her and David’s recently and we had a great meal. We had a really nice halibut and a yellow tomato soup with pesto.”
Ramsay also recently revealed that he and Victoria will be opening their own LA restaurant within the next year.
In January nearly five million viewers tuned in for Gordon’s first-ever live Cookalong . Now he’s back with a whole series, seven action-packed hours, each promising to be bigger, funnier and tastier than ever before, and to teach the whole nation how to cook: live.
Upcoming Cookalongs will include 70s Night; curry night; a three-course meal for under a tenner and a seasonal menu as we head towards Christmas. Each week Gordon is joined by a celebrity guest, and together they cook for seven lucky diners in front of a live studio audience. the first night’s menu is posh nosh made easy.
I came across this video today, and I have to say junior Gordon does a great impersonation.
Not sure how I feel about a child that age swearing though……..
We have had quite a few emails asking where to find the recipes featured on Channel 4 TV show, Gordon Ramsays The ‘F’ Word.
Well have no fear! The fiery Hell’s Kitchen chef has written a fabulous book, containing all the recipes from the show and more.
I reccomend a speedy purchase as this book has received a LOT of interest and is sure to fly off the shelves!
Celebrity Chef, Gordon Ramsay has said that he won’t stop swearing on TV, despite a recent controversy in Australia over his bad language.
“It’s high pressure, high energy and more importantly, real. That’s how we keep it each and every day,” Ramsay told the country’s Nine Network.
An inquiry was initiated by Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, after he watched Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.
Bernardi had watched one episode aired earlier this year, at 8.30pm, in which Ramsay used a four-letter swear word more than 80 times in 40 minutes.
Mr Bernardi said there was “no excuse for gratuitous bad language to be broadcast repeatedly” when it could be “beeped out”. Read more & comment »
Tonight on The Graham Norton Show on BBC Two Gordon Ramsay cooks up a few stories to share with his host.
He tells Graham how he taught John Prescott about healthy eating for his TV programme The F Word: “He was sweet, eating fish and chips and enjoying them. He took me to the local chippy he’s been going to for the last 15 years – he eats too many takeaways.”
About his TV fellow chefs, Gordon says: “Jamie Oliver’s great, he’s a talented chef.” But he’s got strong words for Delia Smith: Read more & comment »
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 & comment »
Hell hath no fury like an angry chef, and no chef has a sharper temper than Gordon Ramsay when things go wrong in the kitchen. Now Gordon has taken Kitchen Nightmares across America, giving some of the worst restaurants Stateside a wake-up call they’ll never forget.
The venue for this weeks programme is The Mixing Bowl, a bijou diner in Bellmore, New York run by talented chef Billy with his wife Lisa and their Monty Python -esque manager, Mike. Despite Billy’s flair in the kitchen, the business is haemorrhaging money via Mike’s out-of-control marketing plans.
If he doesn’t stop spending, the restaurant faces imminent closure. Enter Gordon, whose recipe for reversing the diner’s disastrous finances sets him on a violent collision course with Mike. Can he force him to see sense, or will the restaurant close for good?
Wednesday 23 January 2008, Channel 4, 10PM
I’m sure that by now many of you will have heard that many of our local supermarkets are selling out of scallops and other ingredients needed to participate in Gordon Ramsay’s Cookalong Live, FAST!
Well yesterday Gordon himself (well almost!) invaded supermarkets across the UK, armed with recipe guides and ingredient lists or anyone who wanted to join in with his cookalong tonight.
After the show, make sure to check back with us on our forum and let us know how you got on. Even better, email us pictures of your cookalong dinner and we’ll publish them on our site next week!
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