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A Mother’s Letter from Burma…
I always tell myself that no matter how hard life seems, somebody, somewhere is worse off and in the case of the recent cyclone in Burma my difficulties pale into absolute insignificance.
As some of you may recall I sponser a four year old child who lives in one of the poorest and […]
Advantage Hugh!
Just an update on the Hugh vs Tesco saga. As you may have read in my previous post Hugh had to find £86,888.00 in a matter of days to pay Tesco to issue a postal resolution to all its shareholders for a say on the company’s policy on animal welfare in its forthcoming AGM.
Hugh put […]
Salon Culinaire-The Hot Kitchen Part Two…
We’re on our way to the Birmingham NEC, we’re getting closer, Michael’s nerves are in shreds. He has barely spoken save the occasional F-word grunted with not a word before or after, I tell the sous chef to call the British Natural History Museum and report the sighting of a neanderthal with tourettes […]
Anyone got £86,888.00 to spare?
I know this is another news type post but it has just been brought to my attention and time, as they say is of the esscence on this one. Doubtless Hugh has read my magnum opus on pig farmers and decided to get tough on Tesco’s chicken policy…
Further to […]
Gordon’s right hand man goes it alone….
Marcus Waering, former sous chef to Gordon Ramsay during his earliest days at Aubergine in London has left Gordon Ramsay Holdings to be his own man, so cutting a long and lucrative umbilical cord which saw him run the two michelin starred Petrus at the Berkley hotel and the […]
How not to cook in front of a lot of people
Salon culinaire cooking competions breakdown into two main groups; static display and hot kitchen. Static display means you can spend hours before the competition getting your chosen entry as precise as possible. They are not meant to be eaten so you can cover them in all […]
The Best and Worst of the last week or so..
Conil Beach, Cadiz Province:
1. Seeing my dearest friends again
2. Seeing them in Spain
3. Proper tapas bars, not an English pub or breakfast in sight
4. My new Canon EF 17-40mm ultra wide angle lens-awesome
5. Eating fresh anchovies and Galician style octopus-heaven
6. Beyond the Great Wall by Jeffrey […]
Good Times, Bad Times in Competetive Cookery Competitions
We are back in the Pope mobile heading off to compete in yet another salon culinaire The Renault is packed with knives, chopping boards, display mirrors, decorating equipment (we used to moonlight as painter and decorators) and table cloths.
We went all over on these jaunts; London, Manchester, Birmingham, […]
It’s internet search terms time again….
I’ve written a post on this before, it may bore you to death but it is important for me to understand how and why people come to this website and how many bugger off the moment they see it.
I am revisiting this because after looking at my ’stats’ the other […]