Comments on: The Salon Culinaire Part One http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one Cooking - Photography & More Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3592 Wed, 07 May 2008 07:26:26 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3592 Dave, Welcome back! I have to say there are some dubious inclusions on the restaurant list as there are with any other. There seems to be an obsession with 'best of's' and 'top ten's'. I have had personal reports from a number of chefs who have worked and/or eaten at some of these 'gastronomic temples' and have gone away very much wanting. Nice to see you back. Miles Dave,
Welcome back! I have to say there are some dubious inclusions on the restaurant list as there are with any other. There seems to be an obsession with ‘best of’s’ and ‘top ten’s’. I have had personal reports from a number of chefs who have worked and/or eaten at some of these ‘gastronomic temples’ and have gone away very much wanting.
Nice to see you back.
Miles

]]> by: Dave http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3589 Wed, 07 May 2008 03:58:18 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3589 Been busy as hell - would love to compose a thoughtful comment, but between the kitchen and the booze have no time. I read the updates daily, and thank you for them, but I have another few weeks of purgatory in front of me. Nice retirement - not! The "best restaurant list" pissed me off. I hate these things. One of the worst meals I have ever had made the top 100. Disgraceful. I liked how at least you came into your own from the ground up. Too many mediocre chefs get by on their lineage. Drunk again, so I can't blather on. Been busy as hell - would love to compose a thoughtful comment, but between the kitchen and the booze have no time. I read the updates daily, and thank you for them, but I have another few weeks of purgatory in front of me. Nice retirement - not! The “best restaurant list” pissed me off. I hate these things. One of the worst meals I have ever had made the top 100. Disgraceful. I liked how at least you came into your own from the ground up. Too many mediocre chefs get by on their lineage. Drunk again, so I can’t blather on.

]]> by: Elsie Nean http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3582 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:18:26 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3582 Miles, I love your stories. What a nightmare and Anton Mossiman! I would have been shaking like a leaf. Part 2 please! Elsie Miles,
I love your stories. What a nightmare and Anton Mossiman! I would have been shaking like a leaf.
Part 2 please!
Elsie

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3577 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:56:56 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3577 Rod, That's right! You may also remember the clipping at our parents house covered in tiny holes where they had pinned other notes and photos over it-some parents! Miles Rod,
That’s right! You may also remember the clipping at our parents house covered in tiny holes where they had pinned other notes and photos over it-some parents!

Miles

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3576 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:11:22 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3576 Miles I don't remember that but I think I remember the headline <b>A Trio of Hot Chefs</b> Was that right ? Sadly, I only make the local papers when the police catch up with me :) Miles
I don’t remember that but I think I remember the headline

A Trio of Hot Chefs

Was that right ?
Sadly, I only make the local papers when the police catch up with me :)

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3570 Tue, 06 May 2008 09:34:29 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3570 Miles, .... and to think this was probably long before Heston with his foams and dry ice :) We want more story, was it ladles at ten paces? :) Cid Miles,

…. and to think this was probably long before Heston with his foams and dry ice :)

We want more story, was it ladles at ten paces? :)

Cid

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3568 Tue, 06 May 2008 07:53:50 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3568 Rod, Well remembered! Do you remember me going to the chip shop the next day and complaining to the owner for wrapping my chips up with the newspaper sheet my photo was on?! That was my fifteen minutes of fame-fish and chip paper in Windermere :mrgreen: Rod,
Well remembered! Do you remember me going to the chip shop the next day and complaining to the owner for wrapping my chips up with the newspaper sheet my photo was on?!

That was my fifteen minutes of fame-fish and chip paper in Windermere :mrgreen:

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3567 Tue, 06 May 2008 07:33:31 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-salon-culinaire-part-one#comment-3567 A great read but where's the picture on Windermere jetty ? A great read but where’s the picture on Windermere jetty ?

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