Golden Gordon

I'm not much of a cook but over the past few weeks I have made a concerted effort to try a few recipes from Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food cookbook. The results have been consistently rewarding and you could say the same about tuning in week after week for Ramsay's show The F Word.
His detractors would have you believe he's just a shouty, sweary Scot who has to have his own way in the kitchen but he's so much more than that. He and his producers have been very canny in creating a show that makes cooking look accessible and fun.

Along with his other show Kitchen Nightmares, The F-Word is the must see cooking show and repeats the Top Gear trick of making a great show that covers it's subject but still attracts viewers that don't normally give a flying fig about pots and pans.

The highlights this week were provided by the cooking and eating of one of Janet Street Porter's veal calves David and Elton. There was something deliciously callous about Gordon still referring to, 'David,' by name as he turned slowly on a spit. Then Janet's local vicar gave a short reading in which he referred to the calf's lives as, 'brief but gay,' and gave a little knowing smile. Because they were named after David Furnish and Elton John. Who are gay. As in homosexual. Do you see what he did there? DO YOU SEE? Ah! Vicars.

Sadly there's only one week left before the current series draws to a close, leaving a gaping hole in the Tuesday night schedules. Which is a pity but what can you say? Except, arreviderchi Gordon, hurry back!