Gordon Ramsay news and analysis – Page 5
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Bulletin: Cadbury bid to come today... Asda is least green... bad week for Gordon Ramsay
Deadline for confectioner approach this afternoon; supermarket rapped by consumer body; sweary chef hits gin sales
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Have gin drinkers lost their taste for Gordon Ramsay?
Gordon Ramsay's suitability as brand ambassador for Gordon's gin is being called into question as sales fall. Diageo, which is pouring another £750,000 into its tie-up with the celebrity chef this Christmas, has seen volume sales of its...
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NewsCritical Eye... on poppers, Price and a pan-glazed Ramsay
Now, I'm quite partial to pan-glazed fillet of beef, so I was pleased to see Gordon Ramsay back on our screens with a fifth series of The F Word (especially as this format has in the past played to the foul-mouthed one's strengths unlike the...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on Keith, Keith and the rise of the TV chefs
My first thought on Tuesday morning having learnt that Keith Floyd had died, was that he'd watched Keith Meets Keith (Channel 4, 10pm, 14 September) and it had tipped him over the edge.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on the return of Perkins, food TV's bad penny
Nooooooo! Someone at C4 has decided to give super-irritating supersizer Sue Perkins another food gig and she's accompanied by a sidekick even more sickeningly smug than Giles Coren. Yes, you guessed it, Huge Furry Wittering-balls.
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English Wines Group set to close US export deal
English wine looks set to crack America following the final negotiations of a new export deal between the UK's largest wine producer and a Virginia-based distributor.The light and aromatic flavour profile of English wine was ideally...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on Great White and the infernal canteen
Hell is other people, it was famously observed by Jean-Paul Sartre. As a miserablist, drug-using Frenchman, he probably had a point. Hell's Kitchen (ITV, weeknights), meanwhile, is reserved for those pseudo-celebrities so crushingly inane that...
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The Price promise
A new entry-level range will make Waitrose an essential shop, says managing director Mark Price. By Adam Leyland
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Ramsay faces viewer backlash
Channel 4 is under mounting pressure to take action against Gordon Ramsay following his use of expletives during Gordon’s Great British Nightmare, The Daily Mail reports…
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on a flurry of Christmas specials
The annual flurry of festive cookery specials seems to have added resonance this year – perhaps because the renaissance of scratch cooking dovetails with the desire to sit by the warm hearth of nostalgia. Whatever the reason, traditional is back....
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Review of the Year 2008
At the start of the year, we said 2008 would be all about the credit crunch. We were right, only it was a crunch far worse than we - or any one else for that matter - had dared predict. As the global banking system reached near-meltdown, no-one in...
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Advertising: Gordon's gin gets into festive spirit
With the festive season upon us, consumers are thinking about stocking up the liquor cabinet. Traditionally it's a time for spirits manufacturers to increase advertising spend and push their brands as Christmas tipples. Last year, the market spent...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on grubs, celebs and Ramsay's domestic nightmare
Charlie Wright finds Robert Kilroy-Silk even less palatable than deep-fried maggots the size of your fist
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Beer-style smoothie: the men's soft drink that's not for softies
A beer-style smoothie that aims to get men drinking healthy soft drinks is set to hit supermarket shelves next year. Newly created soft drinks company The Juice Brewery is declaring its new Hoppers range to be the first “soft brews” – an...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on Gordon Ramsay, the new Mrs Doubtfire
Now, I appreciate that my eyesight would not be 20:20 without strong contact lenses. But surely I'm not the only one who thinks facial prosthetics are about as convincing as shoving a paper bag over your head and drawing a face on. Or am...
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Will Jamie and £1m entice advertisers to Channel 4?
Channel 4’s £1m pot to subsidise advertising for food brands has drawn a mixed reaction, being branded alternately inspired and gimmicky. James Ball reports
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What the papers said - 9th August 2008
Carrefour has kicked off the hunt for a new chief executive, the Financial Times reported, with the European retail giant calling in headhunters to identify a successor to the embattled José-Luis Durán. Carrefour chose Duran for the role in 2005,...
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a Licence to print money?
Supermarket shelves are groaning under the weight of Antony Worrall Thompson. That's not a slur on the television chef's size or shape, but a nod to the success of his commercial empire. His new range of ready meals will extend to well over 100...
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Profiles
My Alternative CV - Helen Sear
What's your nickname? Princess (brand manager association) or Chernobyl (occasionally accident prone). Who was your first teenage crush? Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. Need I say more? When was the first time you got drunk and what did you drink?...
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More veg please, we're british
L ocal and organic are yesterday's news. Seasonal and British are where it's at these days - or so the fresh produce industry would have us believe. Next week, the NFU unveils a new scheme, endorsed by the Department of Health, that...