Tag Archives: celebrity chefs

Strawberries soaked in vodka fail to impress

By E | Posted 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 | Also tagged 30 minute meals, brownies, food media, Jamie Oliver, rachael ray | Leave a comment

That’s Reality…wang.

By E | Posted on: April 13, 2010
Talking about the surprising popular success in 1988 of a near-700 page book called The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000, Francis Wheen cites the New Republic‘s comment that ‘When a serious work of history with more than a 1000 footnotes starts selling in Stephen King-like quantities, [...]
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Gotcha!

By E | Posted 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 | Also tagged Jamie Oliver, Killer At Large, Killer At Large review, Obesity, TED | Leave a comment

Postcript, Jamie’s bacon etc.

By E | Posted on: February 5, 2009
Apropos my musings about the changing face of politics, I excerpt this recent review of Jamie’s Fifteen, by Jasper Gerard, writing for the Telegraph: ‘I turned 40 last year and history has suddenly come alive to me. Before then, I was of course aware of major events that have lit up my lifetime, many deemed [...]
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Saving bacon

By E | Posted 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 [...]
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