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Any celebrity chef cooking you dinner - who?

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coxesorangepippin · 05/06/2025 22:19

So if any celebrity chef could cook you dinner, who would it be??

Mine would be Raymond Blanc

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Redheadedstepchild · 05/06/2025 23:58

Julia Child. For the sheer chaos. Here is the infamous "French omelette" episode. Within the first minute she throws the egg shells on the floor and things go downhill from there.

If you have the patience to watch black and white footage, this video is both heartwarming and hilarious. Obviously, in those days you had to film things in one take and Julia had to think quickly but just count the number of items she casually sweeps off the counter to land who knows where behind her. Egg shells, cloths, spatula, garlic press...

At about the 17 minute mark she swigs down the excess tomato juice from from her deseeded and peeled tomatoes with a look of regret that it wasn't a proper Bloody Mary, and at about 22 minutes, she declares something akin to, "If you're used to cooking, it can look like you are doing something carelessly...infinite care about details..."

This is after spending all her time so far saying things like, "So much...two or three, oops...in your hand..."

She had an interesting life being an OSS (forerunner of the CIA) agent during WW2, firstly in Washington DC. helping to develop shark repellent. (Too complicated to explain here) and she had various other adventures in military intelligence during the second world war in in Sri Lanka and China.

The meal would be mostly inedible but it would be a fun evening, which is the main thing, after all.

Here's Julia. I love her so much. She'd be a good friend in a crisis and I have a feeling that she could take out any enemy with a frying pan, a garlic press or any other readily to hand utensil in a kind of Secret Service, "Silent Weopons for Quiet Wars" way with her background and training.

Just look at how she ruthlessly skins that tomato:

Redheadedstepchild · 06/06/2025 00:08

Oh, and if I can't have Julia, I'd like The Swedish Chef from The Muppets/Seseme Street. They share the same happy chaos energy.

SkyOfficer · 06/06/2025 00:40

Angela Hartnett, for being non-pretentious, genuine and some you could have a lovely chat with and learn lots about food.

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