The Plonker Club

In what is no doubt some of the most distressing news that I have heard this year, rumours are circulating the internet that Gordon Ramsay will not be making any more Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

The original quote comes from The Sun newspaper in the UK and according to them Gordon Ramsay said “If the restaurants succeed, there’s no praise. If they’re screwed, we’re blamed and get lawyers’ letters,” he said.

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Gordon Ramsay is back for a fifth season with one of his most popular television series – The F Word in November.

As with seasons past, competitors will be cooking in his kitchen each week and this year, hoping to make the final for a yet unknown prize. These competitors will be made up of chefs and owners from top restaurants (as voted by the public) for the past few months. This ’support your local restaurant’ theme has been popular with Gordon Ramsay in years past and never more than during the current ‘credit crunch’ and will no doubt give some struggling restaurants some much needed publicity and highly qualified referrals. Read more…

Gordon Ramsay has launched his latest cookbook, following a long and successful line of cookbooks that have come from previous version of his hit television show The F Word. This one will be no different and reflects the diverse cooking styles that featured throughout season four of this latest hit and rather more subdued television show.

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With a catch cry of “Shak’s too small, House’s too big” – one of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ favourite characters is back with Momma Cherri’s Speakeasy (did anyone actually think that she wouldn’t keep fighting for her dream?? She was one of the only people in the history of Kitchen Nightmares to have Gordon ramsay eat all of her food!!).

Momma Cherri has had her ups and downs, but she is back with her new establishment formerly known as the G-Lounge at 43 Providence Place in Brighton. For those who know the local area it is behind the London Road, next to the old Woolworths’ building and has easy access to Buses, Brighton Mainline Rail Station, A23, A27 as well as secure car parking 100 metres away.

Here’s how Momma Cherri’s website (http://www.mommacherri.co.uk/) describes the new venue; Read more…

For all of us whose local programmers don’t allow us to see all of Gordon Ramsay’s shows any time near their original airing, have to date had to really on the internet, whther it be torrents or video sites like Youtube. But as Youtube cracks down on copyrighted materials – access is getting harder and harder, unless your local broadcasters also broadcasts on the internet (usually only within the home country though)!

To the rescue come Channel 4, the UK station which airs almost all of Gordon Ramsay’s television shows (and was one of the first to also streamshows over the web). There is talk of a deal with youtube to display contents of Channel 4’s catch up service, 4oD, via the now Google-owned YouTube. Read more…