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Jock Coats
Date:
Sep 27 11:35 UTC
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And then there are more homely ones like River Cottage or one I've
just been watching with a nice down to earth young chap called
Valentine Warner entitled "what to eat now" both of which present a
vision of squires and peasants wandering along together collecting
green hazelnuts, trapping signal crayfish or shooting your own autumn
wood-pigeons and the whole parish dining round an impossibly large
oaken table that only a tiny proportion of the population have the
remotest hope of emulating even if they wanted to.
But actually, I do think "super chefs" can do something
inspirational; I frequently find myself watching Ramsay or Oliver or
some such, thinking "you got a Michelin star for *that*?" And come
the revolution, Heston would be well suited I think to inventing
scientifically perfect self heating ready meals for the homeless
bankers' meals on wheels service...:)
There was nothing wrong with Delia! So long as Norwich City does well
in the cup I suppose!
Jock
On 27 Sep 2008, at 11:50, Julia Gasper wrote:
> I am intrigued by the term God-sisters, and I wonder what it means.
> Maybe you could explain?
> Good luck with your cookery lessons for children, a very worthy cause.
> Personally, I have seen quite enough of Raymond Blanc on TV and
> think that his current series is sheer sadism. It gives the
> impression that he is a really horrid man who enjoys humiliating
> other people in public. "Do i 'ave to teach you to buyl an egg?"
> "No, no, zat is how to get ze buyled beef..." I also doubt whether
> he knows what the word "simmer" really means.
> The cult of the super-chef does NOT encourage ordinary people to
> cook. In fact, I think it does the reverse. It surrounds the subject
> with mystification and makes people feel that cooking is too
> specialized and difficult for them. So they just live on takeaway or
> ready-frozen meals.
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