I saw a clip of Queen Maxima (now THAT is a badass Queen’s name!) of Netherlands doing her best Donald Trump impersonation and what was hilarious is that she does a better DJT than he does.
Being a former French chef, I find the topic of celebrity chefs to be a totally American contrivance, fueled by television ratings and not connected in any way to d’art Culinaire.
Oh, there is the occasional chef, particularly European-trained, that will treat their employees harshly as in the “reality” show Hell’s Kitchen with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who actually did train under European chefs along his way.
He is a great chef, no doubt, but even the great Chef Ramsay would admit the schtick of incessantly screaming and humiliating your staff would not produce the best a kitchen can do.
Hollywood.
Paula Deen was doing fine until her true colors came out. Evidently her Southern repertoire included classics that included slave mentality and plantation-style treatment of certain staff members
I thought Mario Batali was as good technically as any other chef on the Food Network, and he was over-the-top cocky to the point of arrogance. I love cocky, but only if you can back it up, which Chef Batali absolutely could.
Exactly like the chefs I studied under.
Bobby Flay is an amazing chef and his New York personality almost overshadowed how great he is as a technician.
Jacques Pepin is an old-school French chef and I mirrored many of his techniques, founded on classic chefs like Auguste Escoffier.
I have had awesome future chefs train under me and yes, I was pretty tough on them, but when they left me, they knew how to run a starred kitchen and how quality was not expected but demanded.
The reason I knew they were going to be even better than I was is because as bad as I was to them, I was nowhere near as hard on them as the German, Austrian, and yes, French chefs I had the privilege to train under, were to me.
Another bear story, another victim.
He thought it would be a good idea to get off his motorcycle, which was exactly what the hungry brown bears were waiting for. They weren’t looking at the little scrap of food being offered to them. No, they wanted the big piece of food that was getting off their motorcycle and headed their way offering a little scrap of food.
Gulp!
End of story.
Robert F. Kennedy learned firsthand of the apathy existing in our Congress after he announced that our president accepted bribe money from Big Pharma.
Like we don’t know he’s a thief.
We read the news.
He’s been convicted for it.
But he took care of the Mexican border.
An English woman, who refused chemotherapy for her cancer, died shortly after by way of a massive heart attack.
My first knee-jerk reaction was that she must be old and doesn’t want to take the harsh treatment and I agreed.
But she was only 23 years old.
Human beings are free to believe anything we want to, and you would have to search high and low to find someone who is more distrustful of Big Pharma and our healthcare system than myself.
I believe that, like our own government, it is in the business of making money first, and addressing health concerns is their secondary purpose.
Stay well.
