The video of Chef Gordon Ramsay (Hell’s Kitchen fame) with Toronto Star’s Food editor Kim Honey at the Star’s test kitchen is real fun to watch. (big smile) Thanks Kim for sharing it with us. It is just priceless!
See Kim’s article here.
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May 10, 2008 Update: More Ramsay interview at CBC The Hour here, here, and here.
Here is an excerpt G&M Report on Business video interview with Susur Lee (emphasis added),
Celebrated Canadian chef, Susur Lee, moves his East-West fusion cuisine to New York this fall with plans to open with a restaurant inside the new Thompson hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Mr. Lee says that he just couldn’t turn down the opportunity. He will close his Toronto restaurant, Susur, which opened to rave reviews in 2000, at the end of May but will continue the more relaxed eatery Lee, located right next door.
The 50-year-old chef told the Globe, “If I don’t change, I’ll get old. I always love the challenge. I always love to do new things. I’m not sad at all.”
The Hong Kong born chef, who moved to Canada almost three decades ago, is generally credited with developing a new form of cuisine that blends Chinese with French cooking.
Enjoy.
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay launches a new restaurant in Versailles, but an acid review from famed French critic threatens to sour the occasion. See news from The Age, AFP, and an AFP video. Plus a quote of the day by head chef Simone Zanoni,
"May be paranoid passion to achieve perfection in every single thing that you do."
My friend Daisann has just published a wonderfully interesting to read article in International Herald Tribune in praise of the cha chaan teng and her favorite Hong Kong beverage, yun yeung (”a hot blend of coffee and black tea, which sounds yucky but tastes like a match made in heaven“). Check it out.
I think we are all in for a treat as this is just the first in Daisann’s series as she will write more in the coming weeks for IHT’s Globespotters.
I read two great pieces by my friend Daisann. She wrote in “The Electric Platform” (an excerpt, emphasis mine),
“Yesterday an extraordinary thing happened in Hong Kong. A young magistrate in the Eastern District Court, Douglas Yau Tak Hong, delivered a knockout judgement in favor of the upstart pirate radio station, Citizen’s Radio of Hong Kong. Judge Yau, in dismissing the case against activists Tsang Kin-sheng (”The Bull”), Leung Kwok-hung and several others, ruled that the current system of approving/rejecting applications for a broadcast license in Hong Kong is unconstitutional according to the Basic Law.“
And then she talks about “heaven platform” (天台, that’s rooftop), good friends, and good food in a constantly changing Hong Kong.
Daisann, thanks for being my eyes and ears in all things Hong Kong (especially politics and Long Hair News) as I somehow missed this news even I tried to read all the headlines on Apple Daily (after all, I had paid for a subscription). You know I aspire to write like you and I know I still have a long way to go. But then the journey is what makes the writing fun, right? (big smile)
P.S. As an aside, Prof. Lessig has an insightful blog entry on “Deregulating Spectrum” that provides a good argument on what our current (and future) technologies are capable of delivering with properly defined spectrum usage spectrum policy can allow wide spread use of the spectrum. Great Google video by Prof. Lessig explaining the U.S. situations.
