GOK WAN: Live Webchat - Friday 11 October, 1.45-2.45pm

[RachelMumsnet]

We'll still be sweeping up the biscuit crumbs left from the Jennifer Saunders webchat as we prepare for the return of Gok Wan to Mumsnet Towers on Friday 11 October at 1.45pm. Since his last visit in Summer 2010, Gok has produced 2 cookery books and his latest, Gok's Wok is published this week.

Gok shares many of his family's traditional recipes but gives them a modern twist as he teaches us how to cook, simple, fast meals with flavour and a splash of Gok originality. Chapters cover all occasions from lunches to dinner parties and include curries, stir-fries, noodles, salads, soups and desserts.

Join Gok on Friday at 1.45pm or post a question to him in advance to this thead and you'll be entered into a draw to win a SIGNED copy of Gok's Wok.

We have also teamed up with Gok and Sainsbury's to host a live cookalong on Google+. On Wednesday 16 October at 7pm Gok will be making two super-delicious dishes from his new book and he'd love you to join him in cooking them. Find out more here.

[QueenOfAllBiscuitsandMuffins]

Just saw this
If tomorrow, (today) women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

and thought of this thread....

[ZingWantsCake]

Gok
do you know what Judgey pants are?

will you design some for us? definitely need all shapes and sizes and special reinforced ones for AIBU threads.

[TunipTheUnconquerable]

Hi Gok.

I am agreeing with LeStewpot and others here. How is it making women feel better about their bodies to encourage them into uncomfortable, restrictive, distorting and sometimes damaging clothes?

Because of that, I have always found your programmes a bit unconvincing - they seem to be more about encouraging women to fit an unnatural and male-approved ideal rather than getting them to feel great about the way they are.

Don't you think you've ended up getting things a bit back-to-front here?

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Gail Dines is awesome, thanks for the quotation queen.

I'd love to have her on here for a webchat.

[MarmaladeBatkins]

Can I ask another question, please? I suspect my first one will go unanswered...

Gok, in the programme you made with Britt Smith-Start, you go up against Britt in a challenge Designer v High Street. Britt goes off to shop for something expensive and unwearable and you go down the High St to find a budget option.

Which you then customise to death. And it ends up costing £200 an outfit, once you've factored in bits from VV Rouleaux, accessories etc.

Do you really think that this is a good alternative-to-designer option for the average woman on the street? I'm fairly comfortable-off and I would baulk at spending that on an outfit. Have you fallen into the celebrity trap of being out of touch with what is realistic, financially, for your audience? Another chap who was on here for a webchat the other week seems to have...

[MarmaladeBatkins]

Ommmmmmm, you lot are all going to get into trouble...

[Hullygully]

I'd have "He changed others' lives"

It scans better

[Hullygully]

Why, Marmalade?

What is wrong with a little humour and fun??

[RippingYarns]

Yeah, but then my poignant question as the last line won't work

T'is hard work being a poet, eh?

[MarmaladeBatkins]

Could be construed as banter, Hully.

[RippingYarns]

I'll ask my next question through the medium of mime :-D

[Hullygully]

It would work if you put the YOU in caps and made it interrogative.

[Hullygully]

Oh me too.

Yes, get him. I LOVE him, we spent the whole of the dc's childhood listening to Wait Till I'm Older Than You. And I love his letters to Gove and his new political party.

[RippingYarns]

Sat opposite him on the train once, chops agape as I stared in wonder at him.

He's very beautiful to look at, lovely eyes

[Hullygully]

He is a very sound chap all round. A good egg.

[MarmaladeBatkins]

I am still worried that we may never see Jilly Cooper on a MN webchat.

It MUST happen.

[Hullygully]

Oh god yes. Lovely Jilly deffo.

[MarmaladeBatkins]

I need to know about Tory's 11st bulk.

Gok, what would you suggest for Tory's 11st bulk?

[RachelMumsnet]

Hi Guys... Gok here! I will be answering questions in 10 mins... send them in.... x