Unless you’ve been bound up in real news in Australia (e.g. remember Iraq? there’s still a war there), you’ve probably heard the words Gordon Ramsay Lesbian Tracy Grimshaw combined in some unholy fashion with great density. Chef Gordon Ramsay has been in town, stirring up the sort of misogyny that
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Jun 12, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments
Gordon Ramsay’s Melbourne Restaurant
Jul 19, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 9 Comments
Vue De Monde, Melbourne
When Dickens’ Ghost of Christmas Future Yet Come decides to take me out to dinner, he’d probably take me to Vue De Monde to wallow amongst the Baby Boomer dugongs in suits and pearls. That crystalline vision into how my life would transpire if I spent the next twenty odd
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Jun 17, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 5 Comments
Does Gordon Ramsay write his own extrafood column in the Herald Sun?
Gordon Ramsay’s Humble Pie was a 2006 bestseller but it was the award-winning feature writer Rachel Cooke who quietly wore out the “f” key on her laptop. Then again, she can afford a new computer, having pocketed a rumoured £100,000 share of Ramsay’s rumoured £750,000 advance. From “Literary Haunts”, The
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Feb 22, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
Five Links on Friday: 22 February 2008
Food Trend: Seaborne Chefs – Marco Pierre White hits the high seas, rented out by P&O Cruises Intestines in Coca Cola – Great Vietnamese offal recipe (in Vietnamese) Rachael at Thus Bakes Zarathustra wants to glass Jamie Oliver – and I want to watch. Food Trends: Malaysia’s Roti Boy and
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Feb 10, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments
“The only reason to move to Sydney would be to kick Bill Granger in his white-panted balls”
Which was how my friend J summarized my decision to move back to Melbourne. I personally have nothing against Bill Granger and he has nothing at all to do with my decision to not move anywhere near him. The other reason to move to Sydney seems that in my absence,
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