December 22, 2009

Getting sick of TV chefs

Tonight, I have the chance to see Jamie Oliver’s family Christmas. And if that doesn’t induce indigestion, nausea and vomiting, I can overindulge on yet more vacuous celebrity cooking with a festive theme straight afterwards on Gordon Ramsey’s F word. And this is just one day after I couldn’t help but notice that the somewhat contrived Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsall has contrived to make an entire Christmas programme out of shooting and eating Bambi.

Most depressing of all is the thought that there are still two weeks to Christmas. What more celebrity Chef offal will be invited to digest?

Even Delia has got in on the act with a book which seems to be a reprint of an earlier book. Delia got my attention the other day whilst earnestly plugging her book on the radio. The less-than razor-sharp interviewer didn’t seem at all fazed that the recipes were in Delia’s earlier book. Nor did she think it was slightly peculiar that Delia was bemoaning the lack of frozen chick peas in a well known supermarket, which appeared to be essential in the creation of Delia’s Houmous.

Now call me slightly cynical – but if you are going to all the trouble to make houmous for your Christmas feasting… surely it is not too much trouble to soak some chick peas. Otherwise you may as well by-pass the frozen food counter and simply pick up a tub of houmous.

Tonight Jamie is teaching us all to cook a turkey. Now admittedly I suspect he may now have actually cooked one or two – so might know as much about the dark arts of Turkey singing as the rest of us. But I bet when he first started telling us what an expert he was, he had never cooked on before in his life.

But surely worst of all the culinary xmas fayre is the ludicrous Heston Blumenthal knocking up a feast for a bunch of pseuds? Just the thought of watching such tosh makes me quesy.

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