Meat and two veg for Hugh and the crew

May 26, 2008
Meat and two veg for Hugh and the crew

The new series of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Spring starts on Wednesday – and veggies are in for the chop.

Hugh wants to encourage non meat-eaters to change their ways, and one of his guinea pigs will be committed vegetarian Susan Ampaw.

Poor Ms Ampaw, one of the students at Hugh’s butchery workshop, will have to assist [...]

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BBC gives Coren a mouthful

May 21, 2008
BBC gives Coren a mouthful

Tomorrow sees the launch of new BBC programme ‘The Supersizers Go…’. Two celebrity guinea pigs will go back in gastronomic time to experience the development of British cuisine at first hand. They will sample delicacies ranging from pig snout to hare’s gall bladder, washed down with the tipple of the time.

One half of the time [...]

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Life is pucker for Sainsbury’s

May 19, 2008
Life is pucker for Sainsbury's

Jamie Oliver has been credited for the revival of the fortunes of supermarket Sainsbury’s.

Shoppers are responding to the new advertising campaign featuring the chef preparing simple meals for under a fiver. Analysts report that more consumers are buying the products promoted by Oliver.

The supermarket, the thrid largest chain in the UK grocery sector, last week [...]

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Chefs are the sexisest beats on the planet

May 8, 2008
Chefs are the sexisest beats on the planet

And we all know that

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Celebrity chefs argue ethics at Real Food Festival

April 25, 2008
Celebrity chefs argue ethics at Real Food Festival

Last night saw celebrity chefs including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Delia Smith debate the impact of mass-produced food on the environment with the public.
While Jamie and Hugh continued to campaign against battery farmed hens, Delia defended the cheap meat they provide to poorer families.
The event, which took place at the Real Food Festival, was [...]

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Five times Fifteen for Jamie’s charity empire

April 23, 2008
Five times Fifteen for Jamie's charity empire

Five in a row: Jamie’s magic number

Jamie Oliver plans to join the increasing number of top chefs heading north when he opens another branch of his Fifteen restaurant chain in Leeds.

This latest restaurant, which will open in 2009, will help teams of disadvantaged youngsters from the city and surrounding area to train as chefs [...]

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Record-breaking El Bulli wows the world for the third time in a row

April 23, 2008
Record-breaking El Bulli wows the world for the third time in a row

Ferran Adrià shoots…and scores

The man who taught Heston everything he knows has once again topped the list of the world’s best restaurants, scoring a gastronomic hat-trick.

Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli, which has won Restaurant magazine’s San Pellegrino World Restaurant Awards four times since they launched in 2002, closely beat his protogé’s The Fat Duck [...]

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