Which famous chef as your personal chef?
Jan 31st 2011, 11:23 am
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Re: Which famous chef as your personal chef?
This follow from a conversation I had with friends a while ago. If you could employ a famous/TV chef to cook for you each day who would it be?
We reckoned that whilst those with Michelin stars would be all well and good would you want to eat like that every day? Would Heston's food really be as interesting if you ate it every day?
On the premise that it's a daily thing my short-list is Jamie Oliver or Rick Stein.
How about you?
We reckoned that whilst those with Michelin stars would be all well and good would you want to eat like that every day? Would Heston's food really be as interesting if you ate it every day?
On the premise that it's a daily thing my short-list is Jamie Oliver or Rick Stein.
How about you?
Jan 31st 2011, 11:26 am
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Re: Which famous chef as your personal chef?
J'adore Michel. Incidentally has anyone been watching Michel Roux's Service? As well as a great chef, he's a genuinely nice guy.
If I was after high end food every day he'd be on my list as would Tetsuya Wakane. (Japanese chef living and working in Sydney - Auto will know of him.)
If I was after high end food every day he'd be on my list as would Tetsuya Wakane. (Japanese chef living and working in Sydney - Auto will know of him.)
Jan 31st 2011, 11:45 am
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Jan 31st 2011, 11:56 am
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do you not think the people you are naming would feel somewhat underutilized warming up some nuggets, beans and smiley faces on a daily basis?
On reflection, my first suggestion was wrong and I would like to reappoint my chosen cooks... Aunt Bessy for mains and Mr Kipling for deserts.
On reflection, my first suggestion was wrong and I would like to reappoint my chosen cooks... Aunt Bessy for mains and Mr Kipling for deserts.
Jan 31st 2011, 12:06 pm
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My grandparents' cook back in the 1950s and 60s when cheap black labour was still to be had in the American south did pretty much what you described. Macaroni and cheese. Pork chops and mashed potatoes. Grilled steaks and steamed vegetables. Open the box of cereal and tinned fruit for breakfasts.
If you go back to a time when cooks were commonplace in the west you'd discover most of the families where hardly eating exotic glamorous fabulous food.
If you go back to a time when cooks were commonplace in the west you'd discover most of the families where hardly eating exotic glamorous fabulous food.
do you not think the people you are naming would feel somewhat underutilized warming up some nuggets, beans and smiley faces on a daily basis?
On reflection, my first suggestion was wrong and I would like to reappoint my chosen cooks... Aunt Bessy for mains and Mr Kipling for deserts.
On reflection, my first suggestion was wrong and I would like to reappoint my chosen cooks... Aunt Bessy for mains and Mr Kipling for deserts.
Feb 1st 2011, 10:52 am
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Re: Which famous chef as your personal chef?
This follow from a conversation I had with friends a while ago. If you could employ a famous/TV chef to cook for you each day who would it be?
We reckoned that whilst those with Michelin stars would be all well and good would you want to eat like that every day? Would Heston's food really be as interesting if you ate it every day?
On the premise that it's a daily thing my short-list is Jamie Oliver or Rick Stein.
How about you?
We reckoned that whilst those with Michelin stars would be all well and good would you want to eat like that every day? Would Heston's food really be as interesting if you ate it every day?
On the premise that it's a daily thing my short-list is Jamie Oliver or Rick Stein.
How about you?
For the fun factor it would have to be that american southern cook Paula Deen & her son, what a hoot to watch.
Feb 1st 2011, 9:07 pm
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Re: Which famous chef as your personal chef?
It would have to be Nigella Lawson. Not my favourite chef but I could watch her cookin all day long... yummy whats for pud??
Feb 2nd 2011, 5:02 am
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Feb 2nd 2011, 5:05 am
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Re: Which famous chef as your personal chef?
I'll go for Rick Stein (and he won't have to cook either) or Antonio Carluccio as I love his food and think he's a great bloke.
Talking of poor ol' Keith Floyd, I saw him once in a pub (of course) in Phuket when I was living there. He didn't look too good, probably already ill - very sad.
Talking of poor ol' Keith Floyd, I saw him once in a pub (of course) in Phuket when I was living there. He didn't look too good, probably already ill - very sad.