Domestic goddess rating: 10% (lazy daisy curry night 
) Five-a-day: 3/5 Food miles: none
On the menu: toast, marmalade and juice (breakfast); hummus and crackers (lunch); curry (it must be Friday)
I have kind of mixed feelings about celebrity chefs. Sometimes they hit the right note (Jamie Oliver on both school dinners and not eating battery-farmed chicken, for example) but sometimes they miss it by miles – how many celebrity chefs have you seen trying to convince you that you too can whip up a roulade a la blah blah with a cranberry jus? I mean – we don’t all get paid to cook all day, you know… (chance would be a fine thing!) And as for Delia and her abysmal “How to Cheat at Cooking” series…. well, I used to call her the sainted Delia but her halo has crashed and burned with this stunt.
However: today Gordon Ramsay is my top of the celeb chef pops. Why? Because he’s the one and only one to stand up and say “we need to eat seasonally”, with the honourable exception of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – though he doesn’t quite put it like this and besides he irritates everyone half to death.
I suspect Ramsay’s idea that we should fine restaurants who don’t offer seasonal food might be pushing it a bit – but I’m assuming he’ll put his money where his mouth is and make his own restaurants seasonal.
You can get the full story here, including his interview with the Beeb. We need more high-profile people like this speaking out for seasonal eating – the sooner it becomes a mainstream topic of conversation, the better if you ask me.
Filed under: Cooking, healthy eating, Seasonal eating, the politics of seasonal eating Tagged: | celebrity chefs, Gordon Ramsay
I think you have to say extreme things to get a little to happen. So although I think what Ramsay said is outlandish and probably not totally sustainable in reality, I agree with what he is saying in principle and I am glad he is out there saying it.