Monday, November 21, 2005
Agent Ramsey:
Your assignment is to protect the world's access to foie gras. Your enemy, a rogue agent who has turned sides in the war for good tasting food.
Ramsey vs. Moore.
Ramsey vs. Moore.
I'm headed out west, sucka
Sunday, November 13, 2005
"Can-abyss" treatment
Jamie Oliver, in between getting kids he hired off dope, and getting school kids on healthy fare, released his Jamie's Italian Food Range, which includes "pasta sauces, antipasti, pesto, balsamic vinegar and olive oil."
The Real Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare
The TV brutalization of neophyte chefs by celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay has led to a decline in enrollment of food and catering courses in Scotland.
Queen Margaret University College of Edinburgh has shut down its Food Science Dept as only a handful of students have signed up, as opposed to the normal 200-300.
Perhaps my fellow blogger Chef Dakine is right, Mr. Ramsay has brought the profession back many years, and giving chefs a bad name.
Also blamed is McDonalds, for "damaging the image of the food trade."
Queen Margaret University College of Edinburgh has shut down its Food Science Dept as only a handful of students have signed up, as opposed to the normal 200-300.
Perhaps my fellow blogger Chef Dakine is right, Mr. Ramsay has brought the profession back many years, and giving chefs a bad name.
Also blamed is McDonalds, for "damaging the image of the food trade."
Friday, November 11, 2005
Overcooked
Well, they managed to ruin the Kitchen Confidential TV show by making every aspect of it awful. It's done.
Friday, November 04, 2005
The Michelob Man
Todd English, when he's not busy plugging Michelob beer, will debut his new line of cookware and appliances on the Home Shopping Network (HSN) on November 7th. His Winesceptre Ultimate Wine Cooling System looks interesting...
Mixed Greens
I couldn't ask for a much better blog moment like this. I'm chilling at home on the sofa, watching "Over the Top" with Sly, and now I read this: Jamie Oliver is starting a "cannabis treatment" program for most of his staff at "Fifteen". In case you didn't know, "Fifteen" is staffed with juvenile delinquents in an attempt to make them chefs. What did he expect would happen?
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
2005's Best New Restaurants
Esquire just published its list of the Best New Restaurants of 2005. While none are run by bona-fide celeb chefs, they are on the forefront of modern cuisine. Who knows, someone might end up on TV with a microphone and a tailgate party.
In the same issue, but not online, Ted Allen, of "Queer Eye" fame wrote a great fold out piece called "The Laws of Dining", with such info and tips such as :
"Consider leaving the kiddies at home, and the cell phone."
"Almost nobody knows anything about wine."
"If you've seen him on TV, he's probably not in the kitchen. Exception: Bobby Flay."
Let's hear it for my man Bobby!!
In the same issue, but not online, Ted Allen, of "Queer Eye" fame wrote a great fold out piece called "The Laws of Dining", with such info and tips such as :
"Consider leaving the kiddies at home, and the cell phone."
"Almost nobody knows anything about wine."
"If you've seen him on TV, he's probably not in the kitchen. Exception: Bobby Flay."
Let's hear it for my man Bobby!!
One will kick your ass...
and the other, you want to kick his ass.
First, Gordon Ramsay won three awards at the "Harpers and Moet Restaurant Awards", including the Vintage Year prize for an "exceptional 12 months".
Second... Now don't get me wrong, Jamie Oliver is alright, but something about him kinda bugs. Maybe it's that lisp... I don't know.
Oliver won "Chef of the year" for his work on improving school meals in the U.K..
First, Gordon Ramsay won three awards at the "Harpers and Moet Restaurant Awards", including the Vintage Year prize for an "exceptional 12 months".
Second... Now don't get me wrong, Jamie Oliver is alright, but something about him kinda bugs. Maybe it's that lisp... I don't know.
Oliver won "Chef of the year" for his work on improving school meals in the U.K..
