Below I will add links to any articles which I have read, found interesting and would like to share with whosoever happens to read this blog. Given that this is a Anglo-French blog, there will be a mix of English and French.
Bonne lecture !
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English Articles
02/04/2007 Gordon Ramsay in New York
a top class article which gives an in-depth view on the setting up of Gordon’s restaurant in New York
17/10/2007 Molecular Cuisine in the UK
for me the jury is out on molecular cuisine at the moment. I’m going to read one of Hervé This’ books to try to have a more informed opinion, but for now I find that it is the polar opposite to where I am coming from, which is more the ethos of “Slow Food”. Interesting reading none the less.
22/10/2004 Parisian Butcher to the Stars
A friend of mine, Monique, sent this to me - it’s her local butcher, but one who is clearly seriously good. As my friend Steve would know (from his days as a journo on the “Meat Traders Journal”), butchers are a bit of a dying breed - here in France as well as back in the UK.
30/10/2007 The Times Interview with Gordon Ramsay
the passion that oozes out of Ramsay is one of the main things that I keep in mind when I’m in need of inspiration. I don’t know his cooking particularly, more the person (or the persona)….which is one of the things that seems to bother Ramsay, and he talks about this in this interview. People judge me and not the food which is prepared in my restaurants, he says….probably true, but when one’s personality is so present in the anglo-saxon media (as his is), it seems only natural (though unfair) to me that it’s his personality which is judged. I for one will be keping a close eye on the development of his restaurant in Paris / Versailles set for Spring 2008.
18/11/07 Gordon Ramsay Recipies for Christmas
A few interesting Christmas recipies from Mr Ramsay - at least for me, who bizarrely doesn’t actually know Gordon Ramsay’s recipies !!
25/03/07 (even though I only discovered it at the end of Nov 07) Women and Michelin Stars
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French Articles