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Dinner for one

By E on September 17, 2010

It is rare that I eat alone – and not at all ideal, I might add, simply because try as I might, I cannot by myself conjure up the delightful banter that the Philosophe (co-)provides on a daily basis. Not to mention that it is nowhere near as interesting trying to impress myself with delicious [...]

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Rants | Tagged apple olive oil cake, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, masterchef USA, Ottolenghi, popcorn, top chef just desserts, Twitter, wasabi butter, whisky | Leave a response

Getting what you ask for

By E on August 8, 2010

Anthony Bourdain once challenged the audience at one of his speaking gigs to “Go home and Google Sandra Lee and Kwanzaa cake and … count how long it’s going to take for your head to explode.” And in another interview: “Watch that clip and tell me your eyeballs don’t burst into flames.” So of course [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged Anthony Bourdain, coconut cake, Kwanzaa cake, Sandra Lee, Sex and the City 2 | 1 Response

Things you don’t want to know – but probably should

By E on July 29, 2010

I recently watched a new Danish film called The Woman That Dreamed About A Man (or Kvinden der drømte om en mand, if you’re a native). It’s certainly not director Per Fly’s best work, but decent enough psycho-thriller entertainment when that’s what you need. Anyway, there’s one of those typically raunchy scenes when two strangers [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged Anthony Bourdain, cooking, food media, KFC Double Down, Medium Raw, Michael Pollan, steak, stuffed steak | Leave a response

Strawberries soaked in vodka fail to impress

By E on July 11, 2010

So after my recent bold declaration that this Doctor’s brownie adventures are officially over, I was naturally confronted with all sorts of Facebook banter offering yet more tips and tricks for that thing I had just renounced. The most evil of these was a recipe which calls for cocoa powder dissolved in hot water (rather [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Posts, Rants | Tagged 30 minute meals, brownies, celebrity chefs, food media, Jamie Oliver, rachael ray | Leave a response

In my not so humble opinion

By E on May 13, 2010

Cape Town does like to think of itself as part of the big cosmopolitan world, so it’s no surprise that in recent years, there have cropped up a bunch of self-styled “foodie” blogs in the Mother City. Yes, this *could* be considered one too, but the bunch I’m thinking of are the ones who set [...]

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Is “junk” food addictive?

By E on April 2, 2010

In the same week that (just in time for Easter!) we are (again) told that chocolate is “good for you”, come these depressing headlines: Depressing not because of the news itself, but because of how that news inevitably is – has been, will be – abused by lazy reporting and lazy reading. True to the [...]

Posted in Food Media, Rants | Tagged addiction, addictive junk food, bad science, health, hot cross buns | Leave a response

Gotcha!

By E on April 1, 2010

I was so annoyed when I blogged about Killer At Large last night that I forgot to mention one of my main irritations during the film. That was probably as it should be, because I needed to do a little research to confirm my suspicions, and now I have.

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Posts, Rants | Tagged celebrity chefs, Jamie Oliver, Killer At Large, Killer At Large review, Obesity, TED | Leave a response

The killers at large

By E on April 1, 2010

So I’m watching this documentary, Killer At Large. It’s about obesity, in case you missed the pun. And after one talking head in the form of a rabbi, I start noticing how more and more talking heads are actually talking churches. There’s the imam, there’s the reverend, there’s the monseigneur. This must be truly “objective”, [...]

Posted in Food Media, Posts, Rants | Tagged Killer At Large, Killer At Large review, Obesity | 1 Response

Saving bacon

By E on February 4, 2009

So I finally got a chance to watch Jamie Saves Our Bacon, part of Channel 4′s Great British Food Fight, which has now confirmed the previously unofficial canon of food vocalists, or chefs who shout at us about what and how we should be eating: Heston, Hugh, Jamie, and Gordon (to be fair, Heston doesn’t [...]

Posted in Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Posts, Rants | Tagged celebrity chefs, Great British Food Fight, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, Jamies Saves Our Bacon, sow stalls | Leave a response

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