Gary Rhodes in India
I tried to watch Gary Rhodes in India, showing on UKTV Food. I gave up. Then I tried again. Today I forced myself to sit through the episode on street food.
The man is infuriating. Also patronising. Rhodes, who knows NOTHING about Indian food (as he makes obvious), is always telling the chefs who are teaching him how to cook it what to do. He always questions their use of ingredients, constantly complaining about the amount of salt/sugar/ghee/ginger/garlic/chilli/ground spices/coriander they advise him to use.
No research. Comes up with silly remarks and questions and one doesn’t get a flavour of the depth and breadth of Indian cuisine at all.
Apparently he came up with a “banquet” in the West End at the end of the series, for which he could not come up with a suitable Indian dessert so made bread and butter pudding. Yes, Indian sweets can be too sweet, but there are many that aren’t or needn’t be too sweet.
On logging on to the UKTV food message boards I was comforted to note that British viewers took a dim view of the show too,
Oh, absolutely true! I tried watching one episode and could have smacked that Gary Rhodes – patronising, ignorant lout!
He is an ass! We need to sit down and discuss the various idiotic things he said – too many for one blog post but you are spot on – he is so PATRONSING!
Definitely, its just hit the australian screens and its too painful to watch, he talks over chefs, comments are irritating, everything is so ‘fragrant’, and ‘beautiful colours’. I’m bored already.
This whole breed of celebrity chefs is really starting to get on my nerves.