Celebrity Chefs Update – Nigella Lawson

The Chicago Tribune reports that Nigella Lawson, star of “Nigella Bites” on the Food Network and author of “How to Be A Domestic Goddess,” is going to be at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago in November to titillate the locals, as well as promote her new Food Network show called “Nigella Express.”

Though she doesn’t officially qualify for the TasteTV list of Sexy Chefs, or even Sexy Dishes, she does qualify as “a very appealing Chef,” which is our version of second place.

In case anyone is wondering, to be fair, we are not comparing her to well-known female celebs listed as Sexy such as Vanessa Hudgens, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Amanda Beard, Tila Tequila, or even Jessica Alba. TasteTV has its own standards, which our TasteMakers Social Club helps produce.

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Jason Priestley and 90210 Wine Tasting?

Amy Rosen of the National Post in Canada reported:

Jason Priestley and Terry David Mulligan do some swishing and swilling at various wine regions as co-hosts of Hollywood and Vines, a new show on StarTV. The Barenaked Ladies’ Steven Page is a Canadian oenophile who owns a piece of Canada’s Vines magazine. A handful of Canadian celebs are dipping into the wine business. It all raises the question: Is this a recipe for deliciousness or are they corking disaster? Amy Rosen investigates

Jason Priestley’s involvment in such a wine show is confirmed by Celeb Talk, Wine Expression, and TV Guides. The website for the program, which airs apparently now on the Travel Channel or Star-TV – maybe – is here www.hollywoodandvinestv.com

By the way, Wine Expressions has their own version of this type of show, which you can see here.

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Chef Ramsay Rants Ravingly about Rubbish and Ronald McDonald


Alliteration is a beautiful thing. Actually, this article says the Chef Ramsay rants about burgers, but since the word “burgers” doesn’t begin with the letter “R,” we took creative license with this blogpost’s title. On the other hand, one person’s “Rubbish” is another person’s “Crap,” and Ramsay does use that word in his opinion below:

A rival’s praise for the Big Mac raises chef Gordon Ramsay to boiling point.

The brash and confrontational Gordon Ramsay is as well known for his bad temper and four-letter outbursts as for his unquestionable culinary flair.

Now the Glasgow-born chef has picked a fresh target for his rage – the Big Mac. In a rare interview, he also offered a tantalising insight into the drive and ferocious temper that have propelled him from chopping vegetables in pub kitchens to a multimillion-dollar international empire.

But a few scores need to be settled.

Ramsay-watchers will not be surprised to learn that there’s a history behind his latest outburst. In his attack on junk food, he rekindles his war with mentor-turned-nemesis Marco Pierre White.

White has just horrified the world of haute cuisine by claiming that the secret of his success was the Knorr chicken-stock cube. But it was his comments about the fast-food chain McDonald’s that really enraged his fiery former pupil.

“From a chef’s point of view, Marco is talking absolute utter crap,” Ramsay says in the kitchen of his eponymous west London restaurant.
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Marines Give “Iron Chef” Marching Orders


What can we say? An army fights on its stomach, or the old saying goes something like that. Anyway, this Food Network star is more like an Iron Chef than any out there…

WASHINGTON – When Chef Robert Irvine discovered his “mission” was to feed 850 Marines after they’d completed 30 days of desert warfare training at Camp Pendleton, Calif., his reaction was what one might expect.

“Shock and, gasp, horror,” Irvine, host of Food Network’s “Dinner Impossible,” and a former chief petty officer cook in the British Royal Navy, said.

Part of the shock came from the fact that Irvine, who also spent 10 years cooking for the royal family, didn’t really realize where he was or why he was there.

“The reason I don’t know is because they don’t tell me anything. The premise of this show is so secretive,” he said. “I didn’t even know what the challenge was until I literally met the master gunnery sergeant and then he actually gave me the mission, which was to cook the warrior dinner for 850 Marines.”

Irvine accepted the challenge, which gave him seven hours to prepare a meal for the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, which was preparing to deploy to the Middle East. He was provided a field kitchen with an oven he was told had the power of a jet fighter’s engine. He quickly discovered that Marines have a sense of humor.

“Let me tell you this, if any Marine or air service person is flying a jet with that on it, they’re not going very far,” Irvine said. “It took me 45 minutes to saute an onion!”

The meal he prepared required 104 pounds of onions.
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