News reaches me from the moles at Holy Moly that Delia Smith is being sexed up in a Jamie Oliver way for her next TV show. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Delia she is very precise, foolproof, a bit boring and possibly one of the richest women in England. She even owns her own football club, Norwich City. But she hardly is Gordon “fucking” Ramsay or Jamie “cheeky chappy” Oliver material.
For her next series she will be filmed watching the football and visiting producers.
This got me thinking. We all love watching the crazy Japanese kitchen stadium over at Iron Chef. But by and large some of our best known names in Australia are just a bit wooden in front of the camera. In fact some could do with an injection of the kind of class A drugs that are usually reserved only for our top footballers.
Not everybody on this list is wooden and it’s up to you to vote in the inaugural wooden chef awards. If you fell I’ve left anybody off leave a message in comments and I’ll amend the voting.
Anybody outhere fancy sexing up a wooden spoon as a trophy to send to the winner?
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I’d love to vote but fear I may incriminate myself. Great idea for a poll Ed – we ran similar one earlier this year that was interesting.
I know it’s not possible, the software doesn’t allow it, but it would be great if we could put numbers in the boxes like on the election ballots, cause there are some fine choices there. Think I’ll abstain as well, I’m with Steve, dangerous area.
It was a bit hard to vote on this one, there are quite a few that irk me with their utter lack of humour and presentation skills (of themselves, not the food). Judging by the poll stats though, looks like I’m not the only one who thinks S.A. could do with a bit of stirring!
I feel so disloyal voting for Stephanie, she is fantastic, makes great food and is very accessible but is not really TV material. Maggie (and maybe Stephanie?) is technically and self titled, a “cook”,
But none on the list rival Delia. Her treatise on how to boil an egg was riveting telly.
Surely Karen Martini is a slam dunk for this? How could she possibly not be on the list?
I wish there had been an option for “other” – it has to be Curtis Stone
Other Australian TV chefs: Stefano di Pieri, Ian Parmenter and Caterina Borsato (Caterina’s Kitchen on 31) of which only Caterina is currently on air and none of which could really be described as wooden.