Ready meals 'healthier' than Jamie Oliver!

A new survey from the University of Newcastle published in the British Medical Journal has said that Ready Meals are actually healthier than most of the recipes that come from famous celebrity TV Chefs!

To be fair to the likes of Jamie Oliver, his books and shows have mainly been focused on cooking rather than actually healthy eating.

This excellent graphic sums it up:

Full article here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20713985

Keith Floyd

As a keen traveller myself, I was saddened to hear of the passing of the flamboyant Bon Vivant, Keith Floyd.

Keith Floyd was famous for his excellent cookery programmes - long before Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver I might add - but also for his wit and love of travel.

Along with Michael Palin and Francesco Da Mosto, Floyd was my favourite Travel Show host. He would cook in some of the oddest or most familiar places! For example one moment he'd be cooking near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or then cooking meat in the middle of a Spanish desert for Iberian cowboys.

A remarkable man, who will be much missed for his knowledge and enthusiasm.

Big Chef takes on Little Chef

Here was a programme that if the swearing was edited out (like Kitchen Nightmare's) would be a great resource for Business Management pupils.

Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal who runs the Fat Duck pub in Bray is famous for hsi scientific approach to food.

Little Chef, the British roadside icon asked him to help rejuvinate the dying brand. Heston did so... to an extent.

He encountered marketing problems, including conducting his own market research as well as designing/developing the product (the menu) and even had HR issues such as training up the Little Chef staff and turn them from microwave heater-uppers into cooks.

A very interesting and entertaining programme, a bit stage managed though, but I guess that is TV.

Perhaps we could write to Heston and ask him some questions about his experiences?