Favourite celebrity chef

[sheothebudworths]

I think Bourdain's an anti-celebrity chef.

He gets my vote, on the strength of "Kitchen Confidential", possibly one of the best cooking-related books I've ever read...

I just started reading that - it's ace!


Apologies to Gino btw - it was actually Giorgio Locatelli that's the irritating cunt, not him.


I hate that fucking cunt who did the progs with Giorgio more than I hates Giorgio tbf - but I still hate Giorgio just for going along with it, great pile of wedge or not.



((( Gino )))

 

[dilute micro]

Floyd is the bombest of all chefs.

 

[badlands]

Nigel Slater for me.
Prepare, bung it in oven, eat.

Gino to be next chef superstar.

Also brilliant to see Marco back.
He's the boss.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Oh and btw....

Heheh, me too! Who gets up on a Saturday morning apart from responsible adults and kids?

Irresponsible people who are also parents.

 

[sheothebudworths]

I stopped watching all that after that fantastically enthusiastic, passionate, knowledgable and interesting man (Greg? The veg seller!!!) got fucked off in favour of AWT.

Straight down hill.

 

[Orang Utan]

what programme do you refer to oh incoherent one?

 

[sheothebudworths]

Saturday Fucking Kitchen.....obviously...

 

[Orang Utan]

and who's Gino?

 

[sheothebudworths]

I don't know.




((((Gino))))

 

[Orang Utan]

Saturday Fucking Kitchen.....obviously...

ah, the one that I'm either unconscious or otherwise absent for. Still, I liked Greg in Masterchef GOES LARGE! I loved the way in which the competition JUST GETS TOUGHER! I love the way it's possible to be an ingredients pundit. I want his job.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Greg, is Gregg Wallace (I Googled).

He's not a chef and he pretty much called himself a greengrocer but he was a great presenter till AWT suddenly (mysteriously!) took his place.

He's described as a 'food writer' and 'ingredients expert' now.


To be fair - he was very switched on (it wasa live show) and always asked interesting q's and rewally WAS clearly very interested in food - particularly local/british stuff. It was a fairly gripping format (as cooking progs go ) with him at the helm!

He was scoff totty too......AWT is far, far beneath him in every possible way - I never ever watch it now.

 

[sheothebudworths]

ah, the one that I'm either unconscious or otherwise absent for. Still, I liked Greg in Masterchef GOES LARGE! I loved the way in which the competition JUST GETS TOUGHER! I love the way it's possible to be an ingredients pundit. I want his job.

Yes, him!!!!!



Tbf, before he was ever described as an ingredients expert (it sounded to me like they'd found him selling great seasonal fresh fruit and veg to all the big restaraunts and his personality won him over....then he suddenly left, with no explanation!) he completely made that programme.

 

[sheothebudworths]

He loves a pud too.


I thing he just makes the right appreciative noises or something - he always had me gripped anyway*















*Can you tell?

 

[sheothebudworths]

You don't love him like I do, do you OU?












I'm going to bed.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yan at work.

 

[Detroit City]

Martin Yan.

ahh, he's a hack

I think Bourdain's an anti-celebrity chef

yes, he's great. his show last nite on Hong Kong was excellent.

 

[pembrokestephen]

ahh, he's a hack


yes, he's great. his show last nite on Hong Kong was excellent.

I've starting snarfing the "No Reservations" shows off the 'net - is that the series you're talking about?

 

[Detroit City]

I've starting snarfing the "No Reservations" shows off the 'net - is that the series you're talking about?

yes, next monday theres a new episode coming out where he'll be in Argentina

 

[Mogden]

I've starting snarfing the "No Reservations" shows off the 'net - is that the series you're talking about?

You have to watch the Beirut episode. It's v humbling and really shows the side of him I usually see but others seem to not pick up on.

And for entertainment try and find the French Laundry episode from the A Cook's Tour set of programmes. That Bourdain inspired custard Thomas Keller makes is

 

[moose]

I now realise I only watched Rick Stein for Chalkie (RIP)

I like Carluccio and Genaro Contaldo. Simple food well done.

 

[Ms T]

I now realise I only watched Rick Stein for Chalkie (RIP)

I like Carluccio and Genaro Contaldo. Simple food well done.

Rick Stein is really boring, imho, now that Chalkie's gone.

 

[Rohen]

like them all

I like being able to cook

 

[Nixon]

Ramsey then Nigella then Oliver

 

[lynne8]

Nigel Slater for me.
Prepare, bung it in oven, eat.

Gino to be next chef superstar.

Also brilliant to see Marco back.
He's the boss.

Slater for me too, I looove his books.

 

[Pinette]

Keith Floyd is a really smashing bloke and I love his little face. His recipes are v. easy mostly. I used to like the Galloping Gourmet chap (anyone remember him?) I followed a recipe of his once, a duck thing. Invited friends round for dinner etc., and the duck thing transformed itself into what looked like a panful of vomit. Luckily we saw the funny side. Lots of banter about cutting out the middle-man etc.