Posts by: SpiceeGirl

That's why I think Great Food Live was so good Burgers. You had a professional presenter (which is essential in a live TV show just to keep the proceedings on track). There just is no room for error - particulalry with the clock.

Jeni knew exactly when a chef was waffling on too long, or a dish wasn't cooking fast enough and the clock was running out. She did an absolutely brilliant job of delivering the show on time, with quality, day after day after day for five years.

Imagine if Market Kitchen were live?! I shudder to think. It would be one stuff up after another. Poor substitute.

I've just finished reading a book that may explain this insipid celeberity craze that is even taking over Market Kitchen recently (not counting TR and TPB).

The book is called "The Rough Guide to England" and is written by four British travel writers, and says that England is a "querulous, quarrelsome country" that is in the grip of an identity crisis and laps up "celebrity chit-chat".

I wonder when Heather Mills will have her own cooking show??

I love this quote: "As a glance at the tabloid newspapers will confirm, England is a nation of overweight, binge-drinking reality TV addicts that can't get enough of celebrity, even on plain old cooking shows".

So does this explain the mindless Celebrity Master Chef and Marco's appalling Hell's Kitchen perhaps? Enough with all this celebrity garbage! We're a nation stupifying itself.

The book also warned that the English are "the most contradictory people imaginable" perhaps explaining some of the threads on this website

Well I just wish they would settle down. Really, it's as if the hosts are as short-lived as the guest chefs. Every night it seems that there's someone replacing someone. I think they may be just desparately stabbing in the dark. Perhaps the sponsor has lost patience and given them a final warning?

Amen, TVFoody, amen. MK is a production disaster. Train wreck television.

Let's get rid of the fancy and trendy programming and get back to real entertainment and fun. Bring back GFL and Jeni.

They do have simpler recipes on often, I made the MK enchiladas although from pork mince rather than beef. They were easy and good. Although gino D'Acampos enchiladas are a LOT better than the ones shown on MK.

I think the complaint is all the odd stuff they bring on MK as it isn't exactly clear who they air these recipes for? In some ways it's a waste of air time.

If they just canned those weird dishes or at least suggest everyday substitutions it would increase the interest level.

I'm with bazza 1000% on this one! There IS room for both and running some GFL repeats would be a great break from the current tedium being aired!

How about the 8PM timeslot? It's now available!!

Please just axe that miserable Market Kitchen programme. It's dreadful. Probably the worst UKTV programming decision ever.

Food Poker was just not for me, like Kitchen Criminals. Food became secondary somehow on these shows. Although listening to Jeni's dulcet tones was very nostalgic!

Perhaps someday the programming execs will get their heads screwed on right and fix this whole mess.

And maybe someday we can see Great Food Live once more! That one programme simply MADE eveything that *was* UKTVFood!

I do the cooking too, and it would be nice if Market Kitchen could return to the type of cooking that people tend to do at home, like Great Food Live *generally* did. I'm finding it difficult to be enthused by the recent recipes MK have presented. I'm with victoria132, things have tended to become too "complicated" with recipes lately.

Yes, HCB. Back in the good old days when Great Food Live was on the air there used to be a woman named Birgit Erath that would come on and talk spice!

She runs a retail shop in London called "The Spice Shop", here's the web page I think [link]

And map [link]
London,+United+Kingdom&fb=1&cid=0,0,16415100152919253120&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image

You can apparently order online so I guess you don't have to be from London, either!

Matt Tebbutt is cute! That's why he was picked.

But as a presenter? Nope. As a chef? Perhaps.

But I remember him on the second series of Great Britich Menu (when they were going to Paris) and he was up against Bryn. His dishes were defintiely second rate and really got panned by the judges. In fact if Bryn hadn't ill-advisedly chosen a souffle for his desert, Tebbutt wouldn't have scored on any of his dishes.

I think all of the presenters were chosen not by any criteria that have to do with food knowledge or TV presentation skills. Something else is at work here.... Making a new crop of "celebrities", perhaps, for future productions?

Awful programme.

Market Kitchen is definitely not working for the channel, babsky, you're analysis there is spot-on.

But I fear that a live show may be very, very expensive. It requires a rehearsal of the show every day and for the talent to be present 5 days a week. A week's worth of Market Kitchen is apparently shot in two days, albeit grueling apparently. While it creates for a dreadfully boring programme as everyone is completely exhausted, it would seem to me to save heaps of money.

While it's evident MK will be cancelled eventually I hold out little hope that a live show will take its place. That's the budget speaking!

"watch" versus "listen"

A very important distinction, winkernet. I get it!!

You may be right about Matt Tebbutt, he seems to have risen faster than my bread dough!

He actually studied geography at Oxford Brookes University and an early ambition to be a pilot led him to join the university air squadron.

He was born in High Wycombe but only moved to Wales when he was six months old and says he classifies himself as 'an honorary Welshman', having grown up in Newport.

He came to Wales in 2001 after an absence of eight years and, with his wife Lisa, to run the Foxhunter pub at Nantyderry.

A interest in cooking developed early for Matt, partly thanks to family holidays to France and Italy.

Matt's culinary career began with a diploma from Leith's School of Food and Wine. He completed a short traineeship with Marco Pierre White, then moved briefly to the kitchens of Chez Bruce, followed by a short stint at Clarke's, where he learned the art of bread-making. He also worked briefly with Alastair Little.

Matt appeared in the second series of Great British Menu in spring 2007, losing however.

He will be appearing in the new BBC Two series Food Poker from October 2007.

So, take that as you will.

That's also why I originally got Sky, Maria. And at great expense. Now that they have essentially ruined the channel I'm seriously considering just cancelling it.

If they could only spice up their programming, I cannot stand this Market Kitchen show. It's utterly unwatchable. The master class section is anything but and they keep cooking with things that are best left in my opinion as road kill.

This is not a cooking show by any stretch of the imagination.