Gordon Ramsay news and analysis – Page 4
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Comment & Opinion
From the cabbage patches to the killing fields
The Great British Food Revival (Thursday, 7pm, BBC2) has a neat premise: top cooks trying to convert the great unwashed to ape their deviant gastronomic peccadilloes.
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NewsFarmers urged to pay for milk moustaches
The Milk Marketing Forum is calling on dairy farmers to financially support the Make Mine Milk ‘milk moustache’ campaign for the first time when EU funding for the campaign runs out next year. The campaign launched in April last year …
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Comment & Opinion
Gordon's tonic
Daily Bread would have very little time for anything else if we pointed out every national newspaper ‘exclusive’ that comes from The Grocer’s archives.
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NewsHe’s queasy, but Hugh lets Tesco off the hook
After years of hounding the nation’s biggest retailer, campaigning chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has finally buried the hatchet with Tesco and will instead focus his attention on John West when his Fish Fight returns to TV on Monday.
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Rankings
Britain's 100 Biggest Alcohol Brands 2011: Echo Falls to Bacardi
The fastest-growing brand in the top 50, Echo Falls has, like Hardys, benefited from sponsorship of Channel 4's hit show Come Dine...
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Analysis & Features
Meat & Fish Supplement 2011: Convenient daily meals? Game on!
Sales of game meats are set to hit £111m by 2015 as suppliers develop more convenient offerings – and pitch at the right price. Virginia Matthews reports
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Comment & Opinion
Hard cheese, Jay's jibes and Linda Lusardi
Yesterday The Grocer held its 2011 Own Label Food & Drink Awards, sponsored by PLMA and Cambridge Market Research.
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NewsNew stars unveiled for Make Mine Milk
The Make Mine Milk campaign has unveiled the latest celebrities to sport a milk moustache, with actors Ryan Reynolds and Rupert Grint fronting this spring's activity. Reynolds, whose film Green Lantern opens in the UK this summer, is...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on gourmet geezers and gastro gulags
Time was, the closest our prison system came to haute cuisine was the old 'chisel in a cake' brought in by inmates' mums. That's changing. Nowadays contraband more commonly takes the form of heroin, firearms and mobile phones - and that's...
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News
Brits show off quiff upper lip
First it was milk, putting a creamy smear on the top lip of stars like Pixie Lott, Gordon Ramsay and Usher.Now the awesome marketing power of the moustache has been deployed twice in a week. Absurdist nut lover Captain Tiptoes, a…
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ProfilesNew kids on the block: the next generation of celebrity chefs
In the 1980s, Keith Floyd reinvented the TV chef. Today, his successors aren’t just on the box, they’re earning big bucks through endorsements – and a new generation of stars are waiting in the wings. Rob Brown reports
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News
Focus On Cooking Sauces: Innovations
Retailing at 95p for a 100g pouch, Sharwood's new stir fry range launched to coincide with Chinese New Year includes Black Bean with Garlic and Ginger, Yellow Bean & Chilli with Garlic, Soy & Sesame with Ginger, and Szechuan Pepper & Tomato with Garlic flavours.
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NewsReview of the Year 2010
Since the recession started, it’s been widely noted how stable the grocery industry has been. A famed defensive stock, the industry was afforded a great deal of continuity in terms of senior leadership, and only retailers in long-term decline went under.
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NewsCampaigns of the Year: Our favourite ads of 2010
2010 had it all – rapping dairy farmers, Hollywood ice cream heists and Lionel Richie being thrown through a shop window. Charlie Wright looks back at the year in television adverts
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News£1m festive ad push for Gordon’s gin
Diageo is getting its Gordon's gin brand into the festive spirit with a £1m TV campaign. Starring brand ambassador Gordon Ramsay, the ads will air in the run-up to Christmas alongside in-store sampling activity. Diageo is hoping to beat...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Ungrateful Gramias and East End puke
We Puff & Fluff minions were banned from going to the Gramias this year. A victim of this week's consumer spending review? Er, no.
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NewsFocus On Confectionery: Confectionery and the city
So far it has been business as usual for the Cadbury brand following the Kraft merger but analysts say the UK confectionery market should be prepared for a flurry of M&A activity. Nick Hughes reports
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NewsBack to the farm: Jamie Mitchell of Daylesford Organic
Fine food retailer and manufacturer Daylesford Organic is returning to its roots – on the farm – under a new plan outlined by new CEO Jamie Mitchell. Adam Leyland reports
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Profiles
My Alternative CV: Chris Holmes, Bentley Organic
Chris Holmes, sales and marketing co-ordinator at Bentley Organic, on weeds, wasps and Michael Jackson
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on portion control and serial killer potential
Initially, Young Butcher of the Year (BBC3, Monday) sounded as appetising as week-old offal from a diseased badger. Yet the show had a grisly drama to it, like a cross between Masterchef and those animal autopsies recently screened on Channel 4.