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iron chef

Silver — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:49:43 +0000

I really do love culinary shows, particularly ones with a game-show element. I love Masterchef. I love Ready Steady Cook. And I especially love Come Dine With Me (in spite – or perhaps because – of it’s inane repetitive nature and that irritating voice over man who makes everyone seem like a complete twat).

At least that’s what I thought. In actual fact, I don’t love cooking programmes, I love British cooking programmes. American cookery shows are a different kettle of pan fried fish altogether. They are – like most American tv programmes – absolutely mental.

And none more so than Iron Chef America.

Hmmmm. Not convinced by the mentalness. Lets look at my favourite part of the show. The special ingredient part…

Ooooooh

Aaaaaaah

Convinced? Lets proceed.

Iron Chef America is based on a Japanese (obviously!) show – Iron Chef. The original name for the Japanese version was ‘Ironmen Cooking’. Needless to say, I much prefer the original name. It describes the show with far more accuracy and finesse. I wish it was still called that.

ps. Jamie Oliver was a guest chef last year.
pps. Check out their outfits. Please.
ppps. Wanna know more, take a look at the unbelievably detailed Wikipedia entry.

I epithesi tou gigantiaiou mousaka

Silver — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:15:57 +0000

Don’t speak Greek? That’s cool, me neither. BUT I do know the meaning of the above, and I also know it’s gonna come in real useful next time I visit Greece… So, not so long ago my boyfriend and I were making Mousaka. He told me there was a film called ‘Attack of the Giant Mousaka’. I told him to be quiet and silently wondered whether he’d lost the plot slightly. He told me he’d bet me dinner at a restaurant that he was not lying. And what do you know? HE WON! WTF?!? Ah yes, of course! ‘I epithesi tou gigantiaiou mousaka’ translates as ‘Attack of the giant mousaka’. OBVIOUSLY.

The plot summary for this film (courtesy of imdb) is: ‘Around the year 2000, a terrible occurence shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for what reason? But no one can give an answer…’

Probably because no one has EVER seen the film (clearly including the literary sweetheart that wrote that imdb entry). Until now that is. I’m going to watch this whilst eating mousaka. Scary. It’ll be just like eating honey and watching Candyman. Except probably more frightening.

Lets watch an extract. Sorry if you don’t speak French – for some baffling reason I could only find the film with French subtitles, which actually may explain why my French boyfriend is the only person I know that has ever heard of this film. Hmmm, anyway…

Delicious.

Reasons not to eat that cream pie

Silver — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:23:03 +0000

One.

Two.

Three.

I just threw up a little bit in my mouth. Thanks Wellcome Collection!

On another less disgusting note, Bobby Baker’s exhibition ‘Diary Drawings’ was just wonderful – in an immensely depressing sort of way . For the last 11 years, she has kept a ‘diary’ of her mental health status in watercolours. And her mental status has not been great…

I heart Bobby Baker.