Greek bean saladSomething like this appears in just about every Greek cook book. For picnic food or just this hot...
Like many other people, I used to like watching cookery programmes and have purchased all the books published to date in the name of Gordon Ramsay in the hope of finding a few ideas and tips to help my mediocre cooking standards. I have not been inspired.
I watched the first 20 minutes of this evening's programme and thought 'why on earth am I watching this pooe?' People who are paid millions for being nothing more than extremely ambitious, shallow and pushy frequent the programme week-in, week-out. Other 'famous' chefs are insulted. This evening, their faces (perhaps the idea evolved from 'faeces' which would match the rest of the programme) were printed on toilet paper and another 'celebrity' paraded up and down the toilets of some restaurant looking at them and even trailing a length of the said paper from the back of his trousers. Meanwhile the programme host proceeded to be unpleasant womany about the other chefs whose faces featured on the toilet-paper. Is this the standard of our television programmes these days? Mega-rich people slagging-off other mega-rich people in order to 'entertain' the mbuttes? If so, please can someone arrange to increase the TV licence fee to such an extent that only the mega-rich will be able to afford to watch? That way, we may at least have the satisfaction of knowing that they will hopefully all soon disappear up their own bunged-up posterior orifices. (Probably as a result of lack of fibre - moral or otherwise.)
In the meantime, bring back Delia. At least she is honest, good at showing people what to do and is not at all unpleasant womany about anyone else. I would also include Mary Berry and Sophie Grigson in my list, but perhaps that would seem a tad loveist!
Rant over. It won't change things and Gordon Ramsay won't read it but what the hell, it has made me feel better and I have managed to miss 20 minutes of monotonous drivel. -- June Hughes
