Lovely and charismatic fella.
I watched 'Keith meets Keith' last night and thought then that
he's on his very last legs. It looked almost like Parkinson's disease, his speech was slurred a little and he looked MUCH older than 65.
I'm truly sorry the fella has died and my heart felt sympathy goes out to his nearest and dearest but I'm not sorry we have seen the last of one of these TV chefs.
I realise that fancy cooking is some peoples passion?? but to be honest those types of show bore the hell out of me, it's the same as watching golf or watching paint dry to me.
Then again that's coming from a guy who likes nothing better than an all day breakfast or a KFC, so what would I know? ( in moderation of course )
Good honest fat and grease you can't beat it! die young, die happy
<< I read Keith's amazing autobiography many years ago and he'd agree with you, actually. He was a big fan of fat. >>
I hadn't realised that, it seems like he was a down to earth guy at heart. One thing I did smile at was when they were paying tribute to him on the news earlier today, and they were highlighting the fact that he liked the odd glass of wine both to drink and to add as an ingredient into his food
Like I say, I'm not a big fan of TV chef type TV programs, but from what little I know of these people, which is very little I admit, Keith Floyd does seem to have been a bit of a likeable character compared to the likes of foul mouthed Ramsey and goody two shoes Oliver.
Never knew until now,i thought it was some BBC head had chosen that tune for his show.
Even done a promo for them,i have this on vinyl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6y81oMoLig
For all the twat TV chefs, there are some great ones out there. Laura Calder of French Food At Home and Richard Till of Kiwi Kitchen are both wonderful (as was Keith).
I'm also a big fan of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage and, (they don't do a lot of cooking these days but), Anthony Bourdain is hilarious and Greg Wallace and John Torode of Masterchef are great.
both of you mentioned he loved fatty cooking, well he's responsible for my love of Confit de Canard and French food. Also my mum and dad initiated this type of food into me with bacon dip, goose fat roast potatoes, belly pork with garlic stuffing and pig's cheek guanciale. From all three influences I've become something of an epicure. Now I'm as thin as a rake - NOT.
I saw and enjoyed the 'Keith on Keith' programme last night too - how weird that he died the next day - I did think he looked way older than 65. Very entertaining and extremely sad at times too bless 'im.
he was an excellent cook , a grade A piss artist and a true gent. antithesis
of the usual TV chef. i like a bit of nigella too. she has a wonderful way with melons.
They're good, but this home of fast food has its connoisseurs of Wendy's and the mighty Fatburger as well. My favorite burger is made by ancient West L.A. institution called The Apple Pan (ancient in this case is the 1920s, which is antediluvian here). I think the product is incomparable, despite the recent incursion of the twenty-dollar hamburger that some of the more pretentious eateries are serving these days. I don't think foie gras is a necessary or even a desirable burger topping whatever the critics say.
Oh there's nothing better than the independent operator. There are a few good ones in Britain and many Australian fish and chip shops / cafés usually do burgers including the infamous Aussie "works" (ie "with the works") burger (which McDonalds in Australia have copied, but not very well).
I'm sure it's been discussed here before but a "works" burger consists of a bun, split and toasted, onto which goes barbecue sauce, a fried minced beef pattie (not a pre-formed burger, but actual minced meat), fried onions, lettuce, sliced tomato, fried bacon, fried egg, cheese, a slice of pineapple and a slice of beetroot.
I actually hate cheese so I have it without (this is called a "bacon and egg burger" in some places).
Most people, who haven't tried it, are horrified at the idea of eating beetroot (or "beets" as the Americans say) and pineapple with a fried egg, but you shouldn't knock it until you've tried it. It actually work really well. I manage about one a year.
We don't get Wendy's in Australia. Well we do, but they only sell ice cream, milk shakes and doughnuts.
There was a Wendy's in London, in Cambridge Circus, adjacent to the Palace Theatre, in the early-mid 80s and it was great, but it turned into Tower Records towards the end of the decade. Shame.
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Oh I'd like to see a picture of the "Wendy's" in Australia as there is Huge Canadian concern "Tim Horton's" and they were bought by Wendy's but in fact, managed to buy their way back from under the "Dave Thomas" (Bless his clogged-arteried soul) chain.... SO... what you might be looking at there is a hybrid :8^)~.... a Tim Horton/Wendy composite... very interesting is the shaking and settling of multinational concerns, as they concern us. ah-men~
This message has been edited by Dr.Ink on Sep 16, 2009 4:00 AM
That might be a pseudo-Wendy's as the chain is quite strict with their quality control (they don't use frozen beef, for example and I don't think they have opened stores outside of California.
Beetroot sounds more plausible than pineapple...never saw the attraction of that ingredient...but my husband could not abide beets, even when it was suggested that they'd be good for his health. In L.A. if some guy in a white coat told people that shit was healthy, starlets would start eating it.
That might be a pseudo-Wendy's as the chain is quite strict with their quality control (they don't use frozen beef, for example and I don't think they have opened stores outside of California.
I suspect we're talking about two entirely different companies, but if you're talking about the one that uses this logo...
...then according to their website and Wiki they have over 6000 outlets worldwide.
<< Oh there's nothing better than the independent operator. There are a few good ones in Britain >>
I couldn't agree more. Up here in the frozen north of England we can get very good Cumberland sausage hot dogs, not that pretend Cumberland sausage you get elsewhere in the UK you understand, but the proper real McCoy! ( for the none British BWW members, the Cumberland sausage is a spicy sausage invented in the old county of Cumberland, now incorporated into the county of Cumbria )
Dunno about Burger King in the UK selling onion rings? they tend to play havoc with my indigestion system and tend to make me fart! so I've never noticed or looked for them. I agree Mcdoughnut burgers are pretty dire compared with others so I tend to avoid them, but their Mcflurry ice cream is the tops
What do people think about Wimpy burgers then? once upon a time they had the monopoly here in the UK. Oh! how they must have hated the arrival / invasion of Mcdonalds and Burger King.
Don't see many here either. I stumbled on one recently, run down and stuck on the back of a lonely Texaco garage on top of a mountain in south Wales. An oddly comforting find.
When I lived in Dublin and had access to both Wimpy's and McDonald's stores. In my recollection the McDonald's had the superior product and not simply for reasons of nostalgia. I utterly abjure the notion of traveling to other lands to eat the same food you can get at home, but in the old days before the now-muzzled Celtic Tiger began to roar, Mickey D's was arguably one of the better restaurants in town.
Hi
Now locally [here], The Wimpy's of my boyhood, and Wimpy being 'Popeye's' uncle (I think,) was a name which was like a torch of sorts; tossed from the hands of a retiring (or failing) independent small, take-out restauranteur to the next usurper.... there were, in them days, no ownership rights to a business name.... It was was..... like a generic thing.... WIMPY, the man what said "I'd gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today!" Was understood to be the normal nature of the greasy dining experience. Besides.... ever'body who used the name probably realized that they were, in turn, stealing the name themselves, from "Jim Ruland" the writer. .... Funnily enough, M, a McDonuts NOW inhabits the location of the second incarnation of Wimpy's in my town..... The burgers were BIG in those days, and it seems that people catching a case of the 'worms' wasn't an issue either.... but now what is fresh is sterile and you cannot even taste the other foods that might have been hastily and tastily prepared on the perhaps clean grill.... Measured mouthfuls where the money talks and the tummy walks.... (if only it it walked a bit more)... Oh but I remember a sweaty cheezburger of my youth better than I remember those confused sock-hop kisses.... at those sun set take out windows there was no question of whether I was going to go home receiving what I really craved...
LOL
Yes, there are 33,212,69 +- of us and we are secretly (or in a menacing, warlike manner) taking over. And furthermore; all of the boogeyman in your closet are secretly 'Canadian' air conditionairesstealing your comfortable atmosphere)
Night stew. Good luck with you Canuck-conspiracy theory.
This message has been edited by Dr.Ink on Sep 17, 2009 4:12 AM
but I'm not sorry we have seen the last of one of these TV chefs.
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