Great british menu judges sacked
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The 50 best food memoirs
There is a special skill required to making food sound interesting and that means you should pick your food memoirs carefully. Publishers see 'foodoirs' as a lucrative genre these days and if I see another one about moving to France and cooking traditional French cuisine I may go mad.
Food memoirs can be divided into three main categories - finding and/or growing food, making food and eating food - but these often merge. Books about the histories of particular foods can be very interesting but we're dealing here with memoirs - books about real-life experiences. The best food memoirs go way beyond the food and into someone's reality - food memoirs can be deeply revealing about families and working environments.
Several memoirs have been particularly influential. Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential was published in 2000 and helped develop the cult of the chef. It's a gritty account of life in professional kitchens with as much booze and drugs as cooking. Bourdain is greatly missed.
A Year in Provence, from 1989, is not a food memoir but an autobiog
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List of Great British Menu chefs (series 5–7)
The following chefs have appeared in Great British Menu cooking their own four-course menus: starter, fish, main, and dessert. From series five onward, for the finals weeks, the public vote used in the prior four series was abandoned in favor of a fourth (guest) judge. Furthermore, a chef judge/mentor, usually a previous contender of the series, scores the dishes accordingly, eliminates a third-place contender, and sends the top two highly-scored contenders to the judging round of a regional heat competition. From the fifth to seventh series, the fourth judge has been a previous contender.
Series 5 (2010)
* First appeared in series three to compete in the Scotland heat but was not selected to cook one's own menu.
Introduced in series 5
Lisa Allen
Main article: Lisa Goodwin-Allen
Richard Bainbridge
Lee Bennett
Tim Bilton
Derek Creagh
Richard Davies
Anthony Demetre
Henry Herbert
Henry Herbert, the head chef of the Coaches & Horses
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Tom Aikens
English Michelin-starred chef
For the Queensland politician, see Tom Aikens (politician).
Tom Aikens (born 1970), also named Tom Aitkens,[1] is an English Michelin-starred chef. Aikens briefly worked for chefs in London and Paris restaurants. Under his tenure from 1996 to 1999 as head chef and then chef patron, Pied à Terre earned its two Michelin stars in January 1997.
Aikens's current restaurants include Michelin-starred London restaurant Muse, opened in January 2020, and three hotel eateries in Abu Dhabi. He appeared on television, including Great British Menu as one of its contestants and then one of its veteran chef judges.
Early life and education
Tom Aikens was born in Norwich in 1970 to his family who have been wine merchants.[2][3] His twin brother Robert was born earlier. Tom weighed just over three pounds at birth and was treated in an incubator for two months.[4]
Tom and Robert started attending Hotel School at City College Norwich at age 16.[3] Tom earned a two-year Advanced Catering
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