Posted by Lia Bulaong, April 30, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Gordon Ramsay is the kind of man that has the words "temper" and "outburst" used in nearly every last thing written about him. The Independent's Jonathan Thompson interviewed Ramsay yesterday to get his reaction on the interviews his former mentor and now long-time nemesis Marco Pierre White's been doing in support of his new book, and of course both "temper" and "outburst" appeared in the piece's very first paragraph. White said "there is a time and a place for McDonald's" and naturally, Ramsay feels quite the opposite:
"Strip a Big Mac back of everything it's filled up with and you've got two bland basics: fat and fodder. When you think of how exciting it is to make a hamburger from a chef's point of view - with ground mince, ketchup, Tabasco and onions - and how easy that is, then why do you have to buy that crap?"
He's got something nasty to say about food critics as well—Frank Bruni of the New York Times, who gave his restaurant two stars but called it uninspired gets the brunt of it, but he's not a fan of the whole lot. [via The Food Section]
Photograph by by AYArktos
Posted by Lia Bulaong, April 16, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Anthony Bourdain has a new rant up over at Ruhlman, on the disaster that was the Food Network Awards:
It is a measure of how seriously crack-brained, rapacious and evil the Deep Thinkers at Food Network must be that I find myself--yet again--in deep sympathy with their stable of stars. Last night, during the breathtakingly awful, interminable cruelty that was The Food Network Awards, I even found myself feeling bad for Rachael Ray. YES, friends. Rachael Ray. If nothing else, Rachael's BIG now. Network talk show-- doing- well- in- ratings- Big. Own magazine Big. Friend-of-Oprah Big. So, how must it have felt for her to stand up there in front of what appeared to be a halfway empty room of stunned, near comatose trout and feign enthusiasm while presenting the award for "Best Appliance"?
Previously: Bourdain reviews the Food Network lineup, Bourdain on Top Chef, and our inaugural Q&A, Meat & Eat: Anthony Bourdain.
Posted by Adam Kuban, February 5, 2007 at 5:45 PM
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Posted by Adam Kuban, January 29, 2007 at 6:18 PM
"What is a lower-calorie dairy base?!?"
In this installment of Edibles, our own Ed Levine tries Mango Mantra, one of the Jamba Light menu option from rapidly expanding juice chain Jamba Juice.
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