Who is your favourite celebrity chef and why???

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Marco Pierre White. The others learnt it all off him. Who else likes him then?

Anthony W T sons goes to the same school as mine and if ever there is an event he does the food - really not that great!

Antony W T burnt his food on the Great British Menu - he cannot cook at all!

Nigel Slater for beautiful easy food.

Gordon Ramsey for shagability [drool emoticon].

I have a couple of Jamie Olivers early cook books and couple of dishes i have done were shite! - I blamed Jamie of course and not my inability to cook !

Jamie Oliver because his are the recipes I use the most.

I always refused to watch anything with Gordon Ramsey in,because he is so foul mouthed and aggressive.Then alady I know told me that her son worked with him & GR is actually lovely & that all the sweary stuff is just an act.

Does Margarette Patten count? she can make something out of anything & is still goingthink she's in her 90's now.

Gordon Ramsay - shagability again !

Rachel Allen is lovely, pity about her FIL, which of course she can't help.

Jamies recipes are great, really practical and doable.

Raymond Blanc for the fancy stuff.

What about Rachel Allen's FIL? Did you see her Bake programme on UKTV Food? Don't watch if you are on a diet though - great tip about making pastry.

I used to love watching Tamasin Day Lewis. She had a Beaten up old cooker and normal looking kitchenware that I could relate to.

heston to watch purely for entertainment value-would never dream of actually attempting any of his crazy recipes

Jamie O and Nigel Slater for their recipes

Galloping Gourmet - sadly missed

Huge Furry Whippingballs - for his enthusiasm

Nigel Slater - such a gentle soul (or should that be sole?)

Jamie O for recipes you can actually cook!

Rachel Allen's FIL is a co-owner of Ballymaloe cookery school in Cork. Rachel probably a co-owner of it as well as it's a family run business. Well her FIL was convicted of downloading child porn some years back. I was very as when I did a cookery course there, her FIL was left in charge of her little ds a lot of the time. Anyhow, he got off practically scot-free, judge figured he had suffered enough by the time he got to court. And his wife (Darina Allen, well-known "celebrity" chef here in Ireland) spouted some crap about loving the sinner, not the sin so he is still there.

I can't believe nobody agrees with me on Jean Christophe Noveelli

madhur jaffery - for writing a book about indian food that works. and for saving the vegetarians of this world from a lifetime of linda mccartney.

I love Tamasin Day Lewis too - it spoiled it for me when she got a tidy kitchen, I loved the battered one too!

Her chicken bourride is rather good, I use her Good Tempered Food book ALL the time.