Linda McCartney returning to TV after 15 years. Not an image to get me reaching for that veggie sausage
Linda McCartney Foods is returning to TV advertising for the first time in 15 years as competition in the vegetarian food market heats up. The brand is launching a week-long documentary style ad takeover of ITV’s This Morning to drive awareness of its meat free food ranges and grow market share.
Hawksmoor restaurant owner tries and fails to make his job sound complicated
When Will Beckett of Hawksmoor was asked about how they used Twitter and Facebook to accelerate their launch of Seven Dials he was initially a bit stumped. Then he realised what their 4-point strategic marketing initiative was all about. Read on, it may not be what you think…
I've finally tracked down a decent version of General Tso's chicken (左宗堂雞) in London. Never having had a proper rendition of this American-Chinese dish before, I wasn't sure quite what to anticipate. That said, it felt more real compared to my previous brush with what turned out to be a fake General.
You’ve got to feel sorry for the Burger Queen.
As far as foot in mouth moments go, it's a bit of a whopper. The global boss of Burger King has had to apologise after branding British women unattractive and describing our country's food as 'terrible'. The comments were made as Brazilian-born Bernardo Hees, 40, spoke to a group of U.S. students about the time he spent at the University of Warwick where he was studying for an MBA.
Just in case you were wondering, Shuma and I are OK. Have heard from Hideaki and in-laws and they're OK too, but with the trains in Tokyo down it looks like Hideaki will be spending the night at work. Which I'm sure his company will be delighted with. The aftershocks are endless and terrifying, and I'm so tired of grabbing Shuma and heading to the door. But we're very lucky to have no damage and still have all utilities, I've heard lots of folks in Japan are without electricity.
I don't know exactly when or how Coca-cola chicken wings became a Chinese dish, but it's a baby compared to everything that originated back when dynasties existed. Heck, many people don't even realize it's a Chinese dish, much less a common one. I have never seen it printed on a restaurant menu or in an English-language Chinese cookbook. It does, however, appear from time to time in Chinese-language cookbooks and on cooking shows, sometimes involving as few as three ingredients. In China, Coke and other sodas hold a higher prestige than they do in the US. About 5 years ago, when I first visited Beijing, some relatives took me out to a pretty lavish restaurant for my first Peking duck experience. After drink orders were taken, the head waiter returned to the table with a wine cart. With a flourish, he brandished a bottle in his right arm for inspection, which, for course, turned out to be Coke instead Bordeaux.
Hollywood barbecues just aren’t what they were. Sigh.
I was thinking back to my Charlie Sheen encounters in LA. When I worked for Dennis Hopper as his assistant for a while, Charlie was a regular visitor to the compound. One day we were watching Dennis do his barbecue trick with a flamethrower he had purloined from some movie.
Well at least we now know who eats there…
Tourists flocking to its Garfunkel’s outlets in Central London helped The Restaurant Group come though the weather, ash clouds and recession last year in decent shape. Profits in 2010 rose by 17% to £56.5m, from £48.3m, on revenues up 7% at £466m. Like-for-like sales fell by 1%. TRG’s food outlets, Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito, Garfunkel's and pub restaurants, performed well, delivering a 6% increase in revenues and profits, though Garfunkel’s put in a “superb” performance the company said.
I'm really wondering what the lady in the background with the white iphone thought she was photographing.
Smiling royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton tossed a pancake in the centre of Belfast on Tuesday. She flipped it up in the air outside City Hall as several people cheered and wished her well for her wedding day next month. Miss Middleton, 29, was handed a frying pan by Prince William and told to "have a go" in front of children fundraising on Shrove Tuesday.
Charlie Sheen’s talk-show-host debut, Charlie’s Korner, was good and forgettable, but one thing stuck in our mind: Blump’s Squeezeable Bacon. Sheen mentioned the show’s supposed sponsor in passing along with tiger blood, but is it real? The short answer: No.
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