Jaime Oliver Cooks Road Kill Dinners?

Sometimes it’s hard to really know what to believe. But according to this report from the Irish Examiner, celebrity chef (and former Naked Chef) Jaime Oliver is trying something a bit new in the kitchen (new at least for celebrity chefs)…

It’s unlikely to be a hit for children’s lunch boxes but Jamie Oliver is making a new TV show about the benefits of eating road-kill.

The BBC programme, by Oliver’s TV-production company Fresh One, features pioneering forager and road-kill chef Fergus Drennan.

His delicacies include badger meatballs, roast duck and wild squirrel stew.

But unlike the meals served up in Oliver’s kitchens and best-selling recipe books, Drennan’s all have one thing in common: the animals met their death on the road.

Drennan, 35, an acquaintance of Oliver, serves the campaigning chef’s restaurant Fifteen as well as celebrity hang-out The Ivy with freshly-foraged weeds, mushrooms, nuts and berries.

A passionate advocate of the benefits of road-kill, he wants to change Britain’s eating habits and stop people consuming what he believes is bland rubbish.

Perhaps, but don’t expect to see this program on TasteTV.

And if the squirrel isn’t quite dead, maybe a little squirell rehab?
(image courtesy of http://www.squirrelhouse.com)

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TasteTV Meets Germany – German Design & German Food

We got a review this week about www.TasteTV.com from a new podcast in Germany, http://www.ehrensenf.de/, which appears to be quite good.

The video shows TasteTV and other picks, …but it’s all IN GERMAN.
(still it looks like a great review.)

http://www.ehrensenf.de/2006/12/11/doppel-kaefer-huefttank-taste-tv/?vid=Quicktime

Also, our latest feature for today on TasteTV is an interview with comedian Paul Rodriguez.

“Paul Rodriguez shares with Susan Jones of TasteTV.com his Super Secret Recipe for Mexican food at the Johnnie Walker Dressed to Kilt Fashion Show in LA” See the video on TasteTV


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Paul Rodriguez Super Secret Recipe

Comedian Paul Rodriguez shares with Susan Jones of TasteTV.com his Super Secret Recipe for Mexican food at the Johnnie Walker Dressed to Kilt Fashion Show in LA

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Celebrity Chefs – They Travel a Lot – In Style

Our favorite US-produced non-US based international newspaper has a great article on David Bouley et al:

For a celebrity chef, a 5-day moveable feast

MONTLOUIS-SUR-LOIRE, France Take one celebrity chef from Lower Manhattan with hair slightly more salt than pepper. Add copious quantities of passion for his bride, along with a lifelong obsession for organic ingredients and fresh food.

Place for five days with a selection of friends in a chateau owned by a countess and another owned by a French prince obsessed with heirloom tomatoes. No need for additional spice, but monitor carefully.

David Bouley may inspire imitators for his bakery and Manhattan restaurants – Bouley and Danube, which both have two Michelin stars – but the recipe for his wedding this week in the chateau-laden Loire Valley will be even more difficult to match.

“In my career, I’ve done more than 400 weddings for other people,” Bouley said on Thursday evening as he hosted his fourth consecutive night of gourmet meals for more than 80 guests. “This one I really wanted to do right. Read more“


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Celebrity Eating Habits – Not Great for the Stars

TMZ reports that when left to their own devices many young stars have (surprise) bad eating habits:

Even though they have private chefs, specialized nutritionists and personal trainers at their beck and call – not to mention free meals at their pick of the finest restaurants in the world – sometimes celebs just want to indulge their inner frat boy and get their junk-food fix.

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Celebrity Chefs Are Cruising – Along with the Pirates of the Caribbean


First Vegas, now the world. The Pirates of the Dining Room are at it again.

Travel Video TV reports that chefs are taking their acts to the high seas for big bucks.

Cruisers Can Revel In The Culinary Creations Of The World’s Most Celebrated Chefs

Georges Blanc. Ettore Bocchia. Todd English. Nobu Matsuhisa. Charlie Palmer. Wolfgang Puck. Michel Roux. Pierre Selvaggio. Joachim Splichal. Jacques Thorel. Foodies seeking reservations at these celebrity chefs’ tony, shoreside restaurants will likely have to wait months. But aboard today’s cruise ships, vacationers have unlimited access to the creative cuisine of these talented gourmands.

That’s because celebrity chefs from around the world are partnering with the member fleets of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) in a variety of ways. In some cases, celebrity chefs serve as culinary consultants ensuring guests enjoy the best and freshest fare. Celebrity chefs are also offering their signature cuisine on dining room menus, while others have partnered with cruise lines to create full-scale alternative dining restaurants that mirror the style, ambience, and gastronomy of their land-based eateries.

CLIA’s member lines also offer themed culinary sailings, featuring talented celebrity chefs and wine connoisseurs – in addition to well-known cookbook authors and television cooking-show hosts.

The partnerships between celebrity chefs and cruise lines exemplify today’s multi-faceted cruise cuisine. “Today’s cruise ships have come a long way from the regimented dining rules and endless buffets of years past,” said Terry L. Dale, president and CEO of CLIA, the chief marketing organization for 19 premier cruise lines and nearly 17,000 North American travel agencies. “These days, the operative word in cruise ship dining is ‘choice,’ and that includes the incredible offerings from some of the most celebrated and respected chefs in the business today.”

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