Cooking wise, Jamie Oliver, cos he looks after wor kids, and steers 'em awayah frem ket, and theyah or wor fyootshah.



Entertainment wise and in a sexual idiom,  Nigella.



Ah hate them hairy Bikaz mind.

Joe - what in the name of pantyhose did you say then?

Milud! I am fond of Jamie Oliver for he encourages our children to eat healthily and avoid ket.

....... And our children are our future.

It seems to me  that you are are one of the folk who don,t understand just how much money and how much knowledge of how to spend their spare cash at Xmas. You sugest Fast food or stews????

Looks wise - Jean Christophe Novelli because he's a gorgeous bit of Gallic stuff, although his cooking is far too fiddly for my tastes.
Cooking - Marco Pierre White. He follows my belief in having a few ingredients, cooked really well. No fuss, just excellence.

Yeah and see what his last programe in the UK did for his lettuce and tomato diet  did.  Most of the folk he recruited did  a bunk and reveverted back to normal meals. He is a looser on this one, and should stick to what he knows best--- making shit loads of money from stupid programes here and abroad. Tosser. and overweight at that. Fat Bastard.

Well, he gave it his best. He was rather naive and didn't understand what a conspiracy of shite he was up against. I also belong to the fraternity who would gladly sweep the franchised fast food poisoners back into the sea and then teach people how to utilise agricultural gifts completely.

OK, for one, fast foods ARE cheaper than they've ever been - it seems to me that most mass produced, high street chains are practically giving the stuff away....that's if you can bear to eat it.

Go and compare the cost between a supermarket and a butchers.
It will be the butcher that is better value, I bet ya.
Also, you will find the meat much more flavourful and therefore you will need less on the plate.  Cheaper cuts are GOOD cuts - it's just that no one can be bothered to prepare and cook it.
The choice between a supermarket 'bird' (which may I add, has a thin transparent skin and no fat) to that of a bird from the butcher (thicker natural skin, decent layer of fat which will render down during cooking)....just doesn't compare.
Issy will get more out of her christmas turkey than anything she could possibly buy in that hell-hole known as Tesco.

I agree Cosi, I always get my meat at the local butcher. Can't beat it for value or taste. If I have a steak, I know it came from a field in my neighbourhood and I don't have to pay the earth for it.

James Martin,because he uses butter!

OK, for one, fast foods ARE cheaper than they've ever been - it seems to me that most mass produced, high street chains are practically giving the stuff away....that's if you can bear to eat it.



It's true. In the 1970s, chicken was a luxury thing that you could afford to eat once a week, at most. Now everyone can afford to eat chicken most nights of the the week and because? Because factory farming has made the broiler chicken (the type everyone buys)  the fastest growing animal known to man, all done by genetic engineering. A factory chicken for eating goes from egg to slaughter in five weeks. Horrifying..

Deman, I can't bare that sort of chicken, like I said up there, I only buy meat from my local butcher. Chicken is more expensive than in the supermarket, but it does about 4 meals for me on my own, so well worth it.

I can make a Tesco chicken sing.

And that's not easy.

I love lusting  watching James Martin.
I also like Nigella, Delia and Jamie Oliver.

Did anyone watch Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall's "Chicken Out" programme?
It completely changed the way I buy chicken and eggs.