The cautionary tale of Luke Thomas
Teen chef Luke Thomas has been on everybody’s radar in the culinary world now for about 12months, but on Wednesday night his PR machine reached new limits of promoting the latest stove monkey that thinks he deserves a Michelin star. During the hour long homage to “Britain’s youngest Head chef”, I experienced a roller-coaster of … Read more
Twitter – Time for a holiday.
In the week that the social network Twitter reached the ripe old age of seven, I decided to turn my back on it. Not permanently of course, more of a sabbatical, predominantly because after a moment of reflection I questioned my presence & why people followed me. Was it because I was the obnoxious Northerner … Read more
Johnnie Mountain, TV Chefs & Twitter.
Yet again there was a bun fight on Twitter this week; it’s an oh too regular occurrence these days & you’ll be glad to hear, I wasn’t involved at all. But those who did participated were: Gizzi Erskine; Sophie Michell; Johnnie Mountain & Rebecca Marshman amongst others. Sophie, Johnnie & Rebecca all filmed a BBC … Read more
A Preview for March
This month saw ChefHermes.com turn 3years old. There have been many ups and downs which have seen the blog evolve, some were huge steps in offering you, the readers, what I thought you might want. The one thing that I’ve never really been happy with is the food festival post. Even when, in the early … Read more
Twitter for Hotels & Restaurants.
I remember (back in the day) when my best mate, who works for a multi-national IT company, said to me “get involved with this, it’s the next big thing”. Being a bit of geek, although this has now increased as time has gone on, I took a look. I was pretty au fait with Facebook … Read more
James Stocks, really?
Over the past couple of months I’ve been following the infamous chef James Stocks. Many of you will remember his ill-fated tenure at the fabulous Balbirnie House in Fife, where he was labelled ‘Walter Mitty’ after Marco Pierre White described him as such, before he had a remarkable recollection of memory. Many people have been … Read more
“Eighty percent of success is goats.” ~ Woody Allen
On a trip to the recent Abergavenny food festival I was introduced to the guys from Chestnut Meats. As it was getting towards the end of the last day, they were trying their best to sell what little they had of their remaining stock. A few packs of sausages & maybe halve a dozen vac … Read more
Hotel GB – It could have been so good.
Hotel GB, or Hotel Britannia as it was labelled pre Olympics, is the latest ‘reality’ TV show from Channel 4. The basic premise is that a group of celebrities take over the running of The Bermondsey Square hotel for a week with a bunch of trainees, most of which have no hospitality experience. When I … Read more
