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Post by Willing Sniper on Jul 16, 2014 22:40:42 GMT -8
Jacques Pépin Disses Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen
Tuesday, July 15, 2014, by Daniela Galarza
Jacques Pépin, Gordon Ramsay [Photo: Facebook; Google+]
Chef Jacques Pépin, well-respected cookbook author and long-time television personality, wrote an article for The Daily Meal today in which he expressed some very honest feelings about reality television-style cooking shows. Acknowledging that working in a restaurant is a stressful experience and can lead to flaring tempers, he says: "As an apprentice, I was kicked in the rear end a few times, but it was tough love more than nastiness. These are the conditions of the trade, and anyone who works in a restaurant is well aware of them." Pépin goes on to point at television's recent spate of shows that aim to "humiliate" and "terrorize" young cooks and contestants rather than teach. As a Dean at the International Culinary Center, Pépin feels that portraying "the restaurant kitchen in a chaotic and negative light... is a disservice to our trade and to young people who want to go into this business." Though he doesn't mention shouty chef Gordon Ramsay by name, Pépin does note that Hell's Kitchen is among the shows where "every other word [is] a bleeped expletive." Having declared reality TV "totally unreal," Pépin recommends that cameras walk into the orderly kitchens of Thomas Keller's Per Se in New York City or Alice Waters' Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif. While rivalry and cruelty "may be good for ratings," writes Pépin, "it is unjust to dedicated cooks and unfair to the trade." Source
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 9:27:10 GMT -8
Hells kitchen i used to watch but it did get a little stupid
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 9:38:16 GMT -8
I like it when he yells.
So does America, they love him.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 11:11:53 GMT -8
I only like it when he yells at an actual idiot, some of the "contestants" early in the latest few seasons were never gonna win and seemed designed to have their ego's knocked a few pegs.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 15:33:39 GMT -8
I honestly can't think of a single time, that I've seen, that Gordon Ramsay has yelled at someone that didn't deserve it.
(for the record, this is my first season of HK)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 7:17:34 GMT -8
I honestly can't think of a single time, that I've seen, that Gordon Ramsay has yelled at someone that didn't deserve it. (for the record, this is my first season of HK) Yes but he is a bully. lol I think it is good training for the reality of working in a professional kitchen. SOMETIMES, chefs yell....
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