Media

Television

masterchef - A tv show where amature chef compete for a job in a prestigous restuarunt (changes every season) is filled with funny basic mistakes and awesome feats of culinary entertainment

 

the roux scholarship - A competion made by the roux family  which takes 6 hopefulls aged 22 and over and make them compete for a placenin any three starred michelin resturaunt in the world. The challenge has three rounds firstly people all round the world send off a menu comprising of certian ingredients that vary every year.

 

sunday brunch - an awesome colection of humour and food that brings catering knowledge to your tv screens educating the nation.

 

kitchen nightmares - A show that aims to showthe mistakes of professional chefs as the mumble and fumble there way around hell's kitchen seeing who can withstand the 3 michelin star might of gordon ramsey.

Books

Matching food and wine - Michel roux jr's book which has been praised as one of the if not the best book on matching food with it's beverage as it goes into depth about why 

 

chefs and turkeys - A awesome tome of knowledge containing pure banter from the catering industry

 

Magazines

Co-op food - A free monthly magazine from the co-op that not only contains up to date info mation about the major events in catering but also good wholesome tasty recipes that even a person without a culinary background could make

 

Newspaper

metro food section (tuesdays) - Metro eat is a 7 page publication from pages 21 - 28 which has in depth look in different  aspects of food and really explores the feeling behind food.

Internet

Twitter - A new phenomenon has appered on twitter where chef have started posting recipes on the site that only lets you use 140 charecters.

Food bloggers - food bloggers are now more powerful then ever with sites like tripadvisor online they have the power to ruin resturaunts or create empires of food exelence

Films

chef - A fim about a chef stuck in a creative rut from the pressure his boss is putting on him and his journey to stike out and forge his own path into the trail he choose to blaze. this is a very powerful film and highlights to me what being a chef is and how the words of a so ccalled food critic can cut so deep

 

The 100 foot jorney - A film about an indain chef who after the death of him mum moves with his family to france and learns about french cookery and is inspired to become a michelin starred chef even though the road he has picked is not a esy one he will walk it none the less . A important moment in this film is where the protagnist is attacked and his hands seriosly burnt then he askes his rival if he can cook for him and make a simple omlette with his prized spices and wins them over.