Favourite Chef?

Nix143

Loubee wrote:

don't know if he is a chef or a food writer, but Nigel Slater gets my vote. Nice, simple recipes and he writes with such love about food. I was so upset to find out he was gay!:p

Nigel Slater is gay? Wooo hoooo! It means there is someone else to add to my Gay Peeps I Think Are Cool Club! LOL, I know, I'm not right in the head.

I wonder, am I the only gay in the OS village?

Thistle-down

Marguerite Patten is my all-time fav, then Delia and Jamie Oliver for consistantly good results. Don't really hate anyone, but can't see myself cooking Gordon Ramsay stuff, from seeing him on the TV his stuff seems too fancy for the likes of us!

poorbutrich

Another vote for Hugh here! And Ken Hom too.

Peem

I don't really like delia (sorry) there are just too many ingredients in her recipes.

I do like most Nigella stuff.

Really love Tamsin Day-Lewis - her things always work. Also Tessa Kiros ' Apples for Jam is well used in this house.

"Dear Francesca" - can't remember the author's name - is great for italian stuff (and a bit of scottish thrown in ) She's one of the Valvona and Crolla gang and I love that shop. One thing I really miss about not living in Edinburgh any more. (as well as everything else)

And Nigel Slater of course.

So can I have four instead of one (I know it's greedy but well.....)

Rage_in_Eden

Nigel Slater for just his infectious enthusiasm whether it's something really posh or just him waxing lyrical about chip butties.... in fact, his was the first cookery book MrRage and I bought together!!! Mr Rage won't do pots any other way than how Nigel says!!

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - Mr Rage's book again (I'm all baking books and you can't be Bero for that... although the Dairy Cookbook does come a close second). I bought him the meat book last year for christmas and he just swears by it....

And finally - Rick Stein - a man who's love of the sea is so infectious makes me want to go and buy a sou'wester...

sandieb

Nigel Slater - have a shelf of his books - love his attitude to food.

Have tried several of Gordon Ramsay's recipes and they're excellent (ie they work!)

dronid

Thistle-down wrote:

Marguerite Patten is my all-time fav[COLOR]

Likewise Marguerite Patten! I've mentioned my fondness for her and her cookery elsewhere. She's got over 160 cookbooks which cover pretty much every basic cookery style all the way back from the 40s. (That's more than one and 3/4 a book for every year of her life!)

She was also the first transatlantic TV star, albiet by accident, when freak weather conditions caused her 5 min TV slot to reach the east coast of the US back in (I think) the late 40's. She's still going strong and is as sharp, if not sharper than many current cooks.:D

I also appreciate Fanny Craddock :eek: (Fear of Fanny, BBC3 Mon 23rd October - tonight!) mainly because she tells me what not to cook and how not to cook. Pretty much whatever she suggests I try to do the opposite!:D

Nix143 wrote:

I wonder, am I the only gay in the OS village?

No you're not alone! I have wondered that myself.

Does this mean one of us has to leave?

Queenie

Edinburghlass wrote:

Queenie

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Bless ya!

Marguerite Patten, without a shadow of a doubt :T

Delia knows her stuff, so respect to her, but I don't often use her recipes.

Jamie Oliver has made home cooking far more do-able for a lot of people, so I respect him for that, but the day I noticed a couple of his recipes being pretty much MP's, well, he lost some of his appeal for me

Nigella's love of food is in no doubt!! :rotfl: And any TV chef/ette who can use up half of their air time making scrumptious mashed potato, serve it up in a bowl ... pick up a spoon ... and scoff the lot with the parting phrase "ultimate comfort food" deserves some respect for her integrity alone :rotfl: :T I'm convinced it's Nigella's ways with words and foods which inspired the M&S ad.

The one TV chef who irritates the socks off me is Keith Floyd! Can't explain why, but whenever he's on the screen, my toes curl.

Back in the '70's used to love watching The Galloping Gourment (Graham Kerr) hilarious :T

Fanny & Johnny never inspired me though.

My mum taught me most of the principles in cookery but the one person I would love to have met and picked the brains of ... my paternal Grandmother! Good job my mum listened when she went visiting; shame she didn't listen for long enough :laugh:

elmer

I like Nigel Slater now that I can actually cook (only took 10ish years), but when I couldnt the complete Delia was my guiding light.

And I am eternally gratefull to Jamie Oliver for inspiring my 11 yr old son who now cooks from him every weekend, and is becoming quite a foodie, he's getting his new book for Xmas, which means I can have Nigels!!

Roll on Xmas

Elmer xxx

apprentice_tycoon

Queenie wrote:

Back in the '70's used to love watching The Galloping Gourment (Graham Kerr) hilarious :T

He was the first TV chef that I ever watched, he always had something dribbling down his chin, is anyone else old enough to remember YTV's Farmhouse Kitchen with Dorothy Sleightholme? the name isn't as catchy as some today......I'm feeling my age at the moment