OFF-GRID CHEF

December 18, 2009
OFF-GRID CHEF

A simple wooden house south of Montreal is home to an anonymous chef who has chosen to go back-to-the-land using the latest technologies to make it happen.

The one-and-a-half-storey, made from eastern white pine posts and beams held together with pegs rather than nails, sits near the bank of a marshy river near the Chateauguay Valley, [...]

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Fish TV

August 20, 2008
Fish TV

New British TV series – chefs on fish

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Heston shows a nose for good staff

June 18, 2008
Heston shows a nose for good staff

The Fat Duck restaurant has won yet another prestigious award to keep its three Michelin stars company on Heston’s mantlepiece. But this time it is a staff member, not the super chef himself, who has merited the prize.

The restaurant’s head sommelier, Isa Bal was named Best Sommelier in Europe by l’Association de la Sommellerie International [...]

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Over exposure? What f***ing over exposure?

June 16, 2008
Over exposure? What f***ing over exposure?

Gordon Ramsay – he of the restaurant empire, Tourettes-like compulsion for obscenities, and fiery television personality – is becoming so ubiquitous that even on the other side of the world they have seen enough of him…for the moment at least.

Australia’s national newspaper, The Australian, has hinted that the country’s foodies may need a break from [...]

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Delia fights for the right to cheat

June 2, 2008
Delia fights for the right to cheat

Delia Smith has come to the defence of her latest controversial book and TV series, calling its detractors ignorant.

This week, having bided her time during the media storm, she told Guardian bloggers, “I think a lot of people who criticised me did so out of ignorance of what I was doing.”

She added: “That kind of [...]

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Condiment connoisseurs come out of the closet

May 26, 2008
Condiment connoisseurs come out of the closet

Over twenty celebrity chefs took part in an Observer Food Monthly survey, published yesterday, to discover which supermarket staples they would be lost without.

Among the brands listed by top chefs including Raymond Blanc, John Torode, Tom Conran, and Anthony Worral Thompson, there were a few shocking confessions.

Adam Byatt, a chef at Thyme, said he could [...]

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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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