Comments for Luke Mackay

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by Jess Latchford

Jess Latchford — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:32:39 +0000

The article completely riled me. I moved on. Now I’m more riled than I was before. I won’t waste too much anger on this but FFS, it absolutely takes the p*ss.

Justification for the show: she taught her flat mate to make tomato sauce. Then denies it being selacious in the same paragraph as the title ‘High Class Hooker’ is revealed. WTF?!! Is this woman NOTHING but a walking contradiction?!

Like you said, one can only imagine how dishonoured the *actually* talented Gizzi and LP must feel. Oh just a big, fat grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. And a big high five to all those talented, hard-working chefs out there.

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by Babaduck

Babaduck — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:58:03 +0000

I was actually beyatching to English Mum on the Twitter about it too. Lots of people can throw together a meal & that’s fine but this show (I’d bet) isn’t about food, it’s about a pouty-faced moddle/singer who has a slightly well known surname. She obviously hasn’t learned the golden rule of “be polite to people on the way up because you might need them on the way down”. I forecast a bungee for this lady…

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by English Mum

English Mum — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:59:29 +0000

I was moaning on about this on Twitter today. Someone (completely fairly) said that all the nasty bitchery about Sophie Dahl, Nigella et al could have been made up by the DM. Possible, I suppose, but even so, I hate the concept, hate the title and I’m not exactly taken by the girl either. She may well be able to cook, but she should maybe shut up and do it, rather than guffing on about shoes and bitching about people she doesn’t know.

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by Delectable Diary

Delectable Diary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:05:34 +0000

When her dad was teaching her about cooking fresh ingredients from the garden, I think he accidentally composted her brain. Gin and Crumpets is right, this is completely regressive and doesn’t that bint know that cooking in Laboutins will give you terrible bunions?!

The problem however, is not her, it is the people who read the sun, the mail and so on. This is tabloid telly and she is merely filling a gap in the market. Everybody who watches trollop like Only way is Essex and Stuff what Happens in Chelsea are going to love this. I think the writers at the Mail know she’s a complete joke and secretly they write their articles like a joke, sniggering in their office cubicle about how, unfortunately, half of the world will believe what their articles word for word.

How dare she diss Nigella, Nigella is a fucking queen. Being a tv chef isn’t necessarily about how many qualifications you have, it’s about the joy you get from cooking and the beautiful prose that happens when you eat and talk about it. Lorraine P is beautiful and an excellent baker, Gizzi is awesome two. This woman is VERY different. Clearly whatsherface just woke up one day and said to herself, “Hmmmm, singing career failed, I wonder how else can I get myself famous.”

It’s see-through, passionless and an insult to British kitchens.

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by Rupert Parsons

Rupert Parsons — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:00:16 +0000

I reckon you’d be great on Drop Down Menu, Luke, though Gizzi may have to be ready with the gaffer tape!
As a producer, we really value the interaction with chefs and I have come to know all to well how hard chefs such as yourself and Dave work for little recognition outside the kitchen. I am merely one of millions who really do appreciate all you do and, these days, with the advent of blogging, there is a huge market to promote yourselves for free. For instance, I went to the excellent Ben’s Canteen last Thursday and was royally entertained by the charming Dave Aherne who produced such fabulous food that, like many others on Matt Follas’s guest night, I photographed much of it. These will all be blogged soon on http://www.womersleyfoods.com where there will be the credit and links so richly deserved.
The Daily Mail is merely there to antagonise. I totally get your reaction and wish you all the best for a realistic showcase of “life in a working kitchen.”

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by Cookwitch

Cookwitch — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:33:12 +0000

Dear Gin & Crumpets,

I love you. Just sayin’.

Comment on Date by Janice Hally

Janice Hally — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:39:50 +0000

What a beautiful blog entry. I came to this after reading the Daughter Daughter entry. Quite a contrast! But you know, THIS is more important. (although you might consider dragging your fiancée’s ass down the to TV studios and trying to sell her as a front for a new cookery show, “Fiancée of a Chef” sounds like good credentials to me. Will she do it in a bikini?)
J

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by Gin and Crumpets

Gin and Crumpets — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:53:42 +0000

I’m going to say this is about misogyny. It’s a cooking show called High Class Cookers that has an ex-model promising to show ‘people’ (women) how to cook in their Jimmy Choose and that her recipes will tell you when you can leave the pans bubbling so you can slip off and put your make up on and do your hair so you don’t look a fright when your guests arrive.

I don’t think you can get much more regressive than that. The premise hammers home that the role of women is to be domestic show ponies. Wear designer labels! Look pretty! Hint heavily at your sexual availability! Be good at social advancement through the domestic arts! And don’t, for God’s sake, DON’T BE FAT!

Of course, it’s possible that the DM quoted Zilli out of context and spun this to match their ‘women know your place’ mantra, but I’m not optimistic. TV never seems to lose its appetite for the reactionary, the reductive and the vacuous.

Comment on Daughter, daughter. by Wesley Yates

Wesley Yates — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:51:51 +0000

They do say that the first trade in the world was prostitution.
But lets face it. Even they had to eat ?

There are many gaps in the market for Chef Tv cook shows. You are truly going about it wrong.
Your rant could back fire on you. Celebrities have to stick together. If you are one your self you may one day need a nemesis to keep your name in the papers. Maintain a profile and keep yourself in work.

Comment on Date by Wesley Yates

Wesley Yates — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:40:32 +0000

My grandmother once told me something. ” Wesley! A woman chooses the man who will choose her” I learned young that older people were rich in experience, not because of the life they had lived or the many years they had been around- but simply from making mistakes.
I think knowing this makes me rich. I chased women for years and in the end it was something that was not natural. I had become someone I did not like very much and managed to end up in a relationship with a stupidly good looking women who lacked basic human compassion.
It was in this moment surrounded by all my hard work,perfect flat, great job and future prospects that I realised that falling in love is the most natural thing on earth. You can’t for the sake hope and faith make it happen. Falling can never be predicted, If it could we would all know when and where. Maybe its in the bizarre truths when people explain it and they say things like ” I know- I still don’t know how it happened myself” Smiling all smug! eye fucking the shit out of that engagement ring.

I don’t mind being single in a way. I think its really cool you can talk the way you do in your blogs. I read it over and had a few people read it over my shoulder too. We all talked about it. Older chefs can do this in the kitchen. Less dick talk and have a conversation about the bigger things that make life more grand.
What I have learned though, is that in this day in age it is ok to admit that you still love someone. I live with a desire to love to the end. I love all my ex-girlfriends and some of them have go on to marry and have kids. Some not. Some even hate me. Yet things I did when I was 20 will probably never be forgiven for- but I won’t lose sleep. I got by with some words that go like this.

” In the last 10 minutes of your life, Do you think you will look back on the places you have been, the houses and cars you bought, the jobs you had, how happy or sad you where. NO!
You will think of the people in your life. And that is all you will think of ”

I look forward to reading more.