Our Review of 2010 & the landmark 100th post.

Well, here it is, our 100th post on the Chef Hermes blog. After spotting a niche in the blogosphere on the 21st February 2010 the first post emerged. To say that month’s figures were disappointing is a mild understatement, at the end of the month the blog had just 30 page views (not including us … Read more

Recipe ~ The Classic Lemon Tart

So, much has been made on some of the social networking sites of our Chocolate Tart “Marco Pierre White” ,and a chef named Ross Gray questioned whether it would have been better to post Mr White’s Lemon tart recipe, after all Mr White himself said that Any chef worthy of his name will have a … Read more

Words of Advice from – Tom Aikens

So we are nearing the mid way point in our series of  ’5 Questions’ and we have to say a big thank you to all involved and to everybody that has read them. Hopefully they will help some chefs with their choice of career direction. Tom Aikens describes himself on Twitter as A crazy passionate … Read more

A round up of the Charlton House escapade

So in recent weeks there have been several stories floating around the ether, the one of the main stories that caught our eye has been about Charlton House near Shepton Mallet, Bath. Sometime ago former GBM chef Elisha Carter stirred attention with his FaceBook status update “ R.I.P. Charlton House”, subsequently through the comments being … Read more

Iron Chef UK

So this week has seen some more filming of Iron Chef UK up in Glasgow. It’ll be a busy week for Aikens, Joo, Blunos, &  Dwivedi. Not only is this the penultimate week of filming, but the media are doing their reviews with the likes of ‘The Sun’ going up there. Of course their reviews … Read more