All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 8
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Comment and OpinionCritical Eye... on simple suppers versus the professionals
I was planning to watch Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers (BBC1, 7.30pm, 23 September) this week, but when I arrived home (by which I mean my parents', as we're 'between homes' at the mo), I was greeted by howls of derision from my mum that for once...
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Comment and 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 and 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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Critical Eye... on Mexican moles and Jamie on mescalin
Oh Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. Despite the Village People-inspired trailers, I was really looking forward to Jamie's American Road Trip (9pm, C4, 1 September).
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Comment and Opinion
Critical Eye... on Caribbean cooking at its grass Roots
Modern celebrity is a funny thing. You don't need any discernible talent or brains. You don't need to be good looking or have the X-factor. In fact, the more mediocre you are, the better your chances of climbing the greasy pole witness the dregs...
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Critical Eye... on the gazpacho gestapo and medicated pudding
I like to pretend I cook from scratch every day. So apart from an expensive M&S prepared salads habit that I refuse to give up (even if I do have to whip out the credit card), I generally don't spend extortionate amounts on food, and certainly...
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Comment and Opinion
Editor's Comment: uSwitch's shopping habits report is about as informative as a Jordan interview
You know you're in silly season when the national press deems newsworthy stories about a) Casper the cat's predilection for taking buses, b) the death of Benson, Britain's best loved carp, and c) consumers trading down from brands to own label.
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Comment and Opinion
Editor's Comment: Organic producers must do better on freshness, quality and pricing
Liz Hamson says organic is hardly helping itself in troubled times by sending consumers mixed messages
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Editor's Comment: Surprise Duchy rescue can't help Waitrose's new value credentials
What's in it for Waitrose? I still can't get my head around the news that it's contemplating taking on the operational costs of Duchy Originals in exchange for an exclusive supply deal.
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Critical Eye... on the unbridled hilarity only a failing supermarket can provide
Oh good God. What was ITV thinking? Monday Monday (9pm, 13 July, ITV1), the new 'comedy drama' set in the head office of failing supermarket chain, Butterworth's, is so bad it makes BBC Three's crap Personal Affairs look like a Bafta...
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Comment and Opinion
Critical Eye... on the bumbling Boris of British BBQs
He's posh. He's full of himself. And he's prone to lamely risqué quips such as "If that was any fresher I'd have to spank it". But he's not Huge Furry-Witteringballs. Which makes Valentine Warner, the "chef by trade, greedy by nature" presenter...
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Industry steps up efforts to stamp out child labour abuse
But the Global Social Compliance Programme's attempt to improve labour standards will only succeed if it gets more support, says Liz Hamson
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Critical Eye... on Glasto loos and Ross Kemp Lite
It wasn't Glasto's toilets that shocked me for once (hurrah for hospitality tickets). It was the food - and the people serving it. Unfortunately, I failed to notice until I'd half scoffed it that the baked Camembert was a week out of date....
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Critical Eye... on the mad, the bad and the unintentionally hilarious
Oh dear. The Tonight programme has finally lost any semblance of credibility and turned into Brass Eye. Unlike Chris Morris's seminal 90s mockumentary series, however, the issue the unintentionally satirical journalist Mark Jordan purported to...
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Editor's Comment: Tesco is halfway down the online track but Morrisons can catch up
Morrisons needs to get with the programme online - but it can from rivals' mistakes, says Liz Hamson
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Critical Eye... on hunger hormones and the cheese diet
It’s the time of year when men break into a cold sweat over the prospect of a footie-less summer and women break into one over the prospect of having to squeeze into their bikinis (especially as, this year, they’ll be freezing their nips off in...
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Critical Eye... on Brats abroad distinctly out of tuna
On a school trip to Russia, I remember one lad openly addressing his exchange partner as "Shitforbrains", others offending their host families by refusing to eat fruit because it was bruised and one girl getting so drunk on strawberry liqueur she...
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Comment and Opinion
Critical Eye... on the Great White Shark losing his bite
What a load of bullwallop, sorry codshit. I refer not to the sorry attempts of the apprentices this week to rebrand Margate, though James deserves an award for his mauling of the English language in The Apprentice (9pm, BBC1, 13 May), but to the...
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Comment and Opinion
Critical Eye... on the incredible shrinking cattle
After the emotional trauma of watching Philip get his marching orders from Sir Alan Sugar AND Chelsea go out to Barca in the Champions League (a f**king disgrace on both counts), I was in no fit state for my usual American crime procedural.
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Comment and Opinion
Critical Eye... on desperate wives and wasted lives
Swine flu, economic collapse, global warming... many things are beyond our control, but diet is not one of them. Unfortunately, some take control too far - as demonstrated by Desperately Hungry Housewives (10.35pm, BBC1, 28...