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my favourite chef has to be between Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson

flardox Wrote:

my favourite chef has to be between Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson

I made another thread which was supposed to be a poll but it went wrong me and ICT Rolleyes

but anyway here is a link to the thread which could be used for discussion:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthre...#pid164779

Since the two threads were virtually identical, I deleted the one without a poll in it, so now all the discussion can take place right here!�� Smile

I know very little about cooking, but I chose Gordon Ramsay, for sheer entertainment value!��Kitchen Nightmares is one of my favorite shows.�� Cool

Nigel Slater

I don't like professional chefs because it is almost inevitable that they will put something in their food that I hate (onions, tomatoes, etc).

Rachel Ray? Just came out with the new book, "Everyday with Rachel Ray".

However, the add "America runs on Dunkin {doughnuts}" seems a bit cheesy.

Would she like a doughnut with that souflet?

My favourite chef is The Swedish Chef - 'Ze meatbolz, zay go bouncy bouncy!'

alton Brown

My favourite chef is Heston Blumenthal, i love how he does cooking in a scientific way to make the best. I greatly dislike Nigella Lawson's lastest tv program, the express one. Thats not cooking, thats shoving premade things together not caring at all about the quality.

On another note Ainsley Harriet's son goes to my school, he is in the year above of me. Nigella Lawson's yongest kid was going to go to my school but i'm not sure if he came in the end. Big Grin

That mental Italian on the Jamie Oliver show.

Fuckin Badass =p

Moo Wrote:

My favourite chef is Heston Blumenthal, I love how he does cooking in a scientific way to make the best.

Have you ever eaten at his restaurant The Fat Duck?

Aeolienne Wrote:

Nigel Slater

Ooh, yeah, he's good. His recipe for roast potatoes is perfection.

But I do like Gordon Ramsay, he comes across as ever so passionate...

In my postcard collection I have one with a picture of Bedruthan Steps, nr Newquay, Cornwall, sent to me from my mum when she was staying with a schoolfriend on the north coast. I reproduce it in full because it's quite a sweet message, although only the last line is relevant to the subject of this thread...

Quote:

In the train, 19.4.94
Just spent a wonderful 3 days with Liz, who sends her love. She now has 4 dogs: Belinda, the Bernese; Meg, a golden retriever; & Emily & Victoria, 2 King Charles spaniels. Also 2 cats - quite a menagerie. We have visited the church at St ENODOC, where John Betjeman is buried, & yesterday did a 12-mile cliff walk - 10 mile bike ride today. Marvellous weather & scenery. The S. Coast [Sussex] is not a patch on N. Cornwall, with its wonderful rocks & incredibly blue sea. Last night we went to a very fine fish restaurant in Padstow.

That was when you didn't have to book months in advance to eat at Rick Stein's!

I voted for Nigella for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with cooking. Smile

If I had real favorite, it would probably be Claudine Pépin -- not strictly speaking a chef. Definitely, if she'd ever given her Dad the swift kick up the backside he so richly deserved.

So far as actual cooking goes, as a single guy my vote would have to go to Justin Wilson. Again not, strictly speaking, a chef.

I liked the Hairy Bikers' "Winter Special" where they explored the cuisine of their native northern England. Especially the bit where they made gravadlax at - or rather, on - Whitley Bay Ice Rink in lieu of a frozen lake in Gothenburg, so they said. Are there in fact any lakes in the Gothenburg region that have a tendency to freeze over?

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