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Jamie Oliver was yesterday awarded the 2010 TED Prize for his role in addressing unhealthy diets and reducing British waistlines.
The $100,000 (£60,000) purse that comes with the award will be used to enact a wish that will be unveiled by the Naked Chef on February 10 at the 2010 TED conference in California. The TED community of scientists, designers and other creative people will be invited to support the effort.
"We're thrilled to award the TED Prize to Jamie Oliver,” said TED curator Chris Anderson (a different Chris Anderson from American Wired's editor-in-chief of the same name). “His work directly tackles one of the most distressing issues the world faces ... the obesity epidemic.”$100,000-ted-grant.aspx
Jamie Oliver was yesterday awarded the 2010 TED Prize for his... more
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I love to cook, but when I'm watching TV I'd rather watch people eat.
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I have no idea what the Village People and American culinary culture have in common, but apparently Jamie Oliver (or his publicists) have decided the best way to promote the former Naked Chef's new cooking series, Jamie's American Road Trip, is for him to dress up like each of the six disco icons. The only word that comes to my mind that relates to both cooking and the village people is "flaming."
If I were Jamie I might be a bit weary of this, especially considering that, according to the Guardian, "The promo plays on the idea of the TV chef arriving back in the UK having "learnt a few tricks, picked up a few habits", by showing him coming through the airport dressed as various members of the 1970s disco band."
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Coolio is coming out with a cookbook, “Cookin’ with Coolio: 5-Star Meals at a 1-Star Price,” set for release by Simon & Schuster in November. To be filled with recipes for such tantalizing dishes as “Heavenly Ghettalian Garlic Bread,” “Tricked-out Westside Tilapia” or “Grilled Italiano Breastesses."
Here is the description for "Fresh-pickin' Raspberry Chicken."
Raspberries and chicken? Coolio, have you gone mad? Have you lost your damn mind? Do we need to lock you up like Lil' Kim? Hell to the no. I know what I'm doin'. I ain't the ghetto gourmet because I do stuff like everyone else. This recipe was born when I found myself back at my house with a beautiful lady at 3:00 a.m. with less than a fully-stocked fridge. So I took nothing and I made something, and then I got myself a little something something. Know what I'm saying? ShakaCoolio is coming out with a cookbook, “Cookin’ with Coolio: 5-Star Meals... more
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I myself LOVE cooking - I came across this site I thought I'd share - extremely informative!
CHEERS.
Behind the Burner offers access to the glamorous, exotic and sometimes chaotic culinary world. Showcasing secrets from the front and back of the house, Behind the Burner reveals the tips and tricks of the trade that master chefs, mixologists, restaurateurs and other culinary visionaries are using to turn up the heat around the world.
If you crave behind-the-scenes dish, Behind the Burner is your entrée to the culinary world.I myself LOVE cooking - I came across this site I thought I'd share - extremely... more
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The economic downturn has hit celebrity chef Antony Worral Thompson, as three of his reataurants (The Lamb in Henley-on-Thames, the Barnes Grill and Notting Grill) will be closed with 60 staff made redundant, that's according to the Sunday Mirror.
The chef's firm; AWT Restaurants Limited, made a profit of £297,000 in 2007, but the company, with five restaurants in and around London, was late filing their 2008 earnings, signaling that there was financial problems. Kew Grill and Windsor Grill remain open.The economic downturn has hit celebrity chef Antony Worral Thompson, as three of his... more
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The residents of Rotherham, south Yourkshire, are up in arms after TV chef Jamie Oliver portrayed them in a less than flattering manner.The residents of Rotherham, south Yourkshire, are up in arms after TV chef Jamie... more
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"Tesco shareholders have not backed proposals to improve welfare standards for chickens championed by TV cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The chef wanted investors to adopt new standards for rearing birds, but the plan got fewer than 10% of votes at its annual general meeting in Solihull.
Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall and other chefs have highlighted what they say are appalling conditions in some farms. Tesco says it is sourcing more chicken from farms with the highest standards.
Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall called the backing he garnered for his proposals a "significant showing" and denied that his efforts had been wasted. For the plans to have been passed, Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall needed 75% of the shareholders' votes.
He and other celebrity chefs argue that conditions in such farms are unacceptable and that supermarkets are partly to blame for this for selling chickens too cheaply. He had urged shareholders to support his motion, which would have required Tesco to adopt higher minimum standards for chickens it purchases. Had the proposal been backed by shareholders, Tesco would have had to adopt the RSPCA's freedom farm standards on how birds are fed, exercised and transported.
Farms approved by the RSPCA for meeting "higher welfare" standards are able to carry the freedom farm logo on their products.
Tesco says it has adopted such standards on a growing number of its farms, but that to do so universally straight away would force up the price of chickens and that this would be unpopular with families already facing higher shopping bills.
Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall said he was "disappointed" that Tesco had chosen to "abdicate responsibility" on the issue of poultry welfare to the government and shoppers.
But he said he was encouraged that "significant changes" were taking place "behind the scenes" in Tesco's policies and called on the UK's largest supermarket chain to take the lead in establishing a forum to discuss general poultry welfare issues.
"The way chicken has been sold in this country has been a bit of a secret for some time," he said. "I would like to see some real change from Tesco in the coming months."
Tesco, which accounts for more than a fifth of all intensively reared chickens sold, was criticised earlier this year when it cut the retail price of its standard whole chicken to £1.99. Tesco said its welfare standards were "amongst the best in the world" and that the share of higher welfare chicken it sold had risen 70% in the past year.
"We have been working hard for a while to increase the amount of higher welfare chicken we sell and the recent debate over chickens in the media has helped raise awareness of the choice available to customers," a spokesman said. But it added: "A large number of our customers are on a tight budget and rely on lower cost foods to feed their families. We believe it would be wrong to remove these options for them."
Corporate governance firm PIRC, which backed Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall's resolution, said it had not expected to win the vote but that it had raised awareness of the issue. Higher standards would create a "more enriched environment" for chickens and would ultimately be healthier for customers, it added.
Other issues debated at the meeting ranged from calls for union recognition at its new US stores to allegations of low pay for workers employed by global suppliers, particularly in India.""Tesco shareholders have not backed proposals to improve welfare standards for... more
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Learn how to make a salad that will get them panties off!
Soooo wrong in sooo many ways. Learn how to make a salad that will get them panties off!
Soooo wrong in... more
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BEFORE Katrina, John Besh was simply a good chef with a fancy restaurant that had a habit of making top 10 lists around the country.
After Katrina, he became known as the ex-Marine who rode into the flooded city with a gun, a boat and a bag of beans and fed New Orleans until it could feed itself.
His post-Katrina narrative has turned him into a spokesman for his citys culinary recovery. He is the anti-Emeril, a polite, bona fide hometown boy who is less bam! and more bayou.
An interesting tale of determination, hard work and success.
BEFORE Katrina, John Besh was simply a good chef with a fancy restaurant that had a... more
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