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Politics Home | Chef Tom Kerridge Says Burnham Should Create Department For Hospitality

Politics Home | Chef Tom Kerridge Says Burnham Should Create Department For Hospitality

Published by Sam Flores

Award-winning chef Tom Kerridge has called on the government to create a new ministry for hospitality (Alamy) 3 min read23 min Chef and campaigner Tom Kerridge has said Prime Minister Andy Burnham should set up a new department for hospitality. Speaking on the latest episode of PoliticsHome podcast The Rundown, the Michelin-starred restaurant owner said a “ministry of hospitality” would help recognise the industry’s importance to the wider economy at a time when it is under significant financial pressure. ”The biggest problem that we have is that a ministry of hospitality does not exist,” said Kerridge. He argued that, as things stand, various parts of government “give an opinion on what should happen” to the industry but, as one of the country’s biggest employers, it needs a dedicated Whitehall department. “There should be a civil service building somewhere around here where there are people who absolutely know what they’re talking about, that can sit there and represent the industry to government,” he added. Kerridge said having a department responsible for hospitality could help ministers draft policy to …

Watch: Young chef, 16, cooking up gourmet meals in Gaza | Gaza News

Watch: Young chef, 16, cooking up gourmet meals in Gaza | Gaza News

Published by Sam Flores

Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 Before Israel’s war on Gaza, 16-year-old Yasser Ayad loved cooking with his parents. It was his passion. Then his father was killed and the family home was reduced to rubble. But Yasser wanted to continue his family’s tradition and be like his father. In the middle of genocide and famine, he started filming his cooking, and posting his videos on social media, gradually becoming one of Gaza’s best-known young chefs. Even while living in a tent and with food supplies scarce he wanted to revive interest in traditional Palestinian dishes. Source link

French pastry chef crowned world’s best aims ‘to be world champion every day’

French pastry chef crowned world’s best aims ‘to be world champion every day’

Published by Sam Flores

The smell of warm bread hangs in the air at one of Benoît Castel’s patisseries in Paris, where the newly crowned world’s best pastry chef was hard at work testing new recipes. His fingers covered in cookie dough, the 54-year-old with salt-and-pepper hair had returned to his usual routine as an “artisan-retailer” after the International Union of Bakers and Confectioners (UIBC) named him World Confectioner of the Year last month. “I have a mission: to be the world champion every day in my shop for my customers,” he said, eyes twinkling. At the helm of several establishments in Paris, Castel has never strayed from his motto: “It’s all about the product.” Watch moreWorld’s best pastry chef Nina Métayer: ‘We Need Cake!’ Three years after fellow French pastry chef Nina Métayer was crowned champion, Castel received the UIBC award presented annually to a leading figure in the profession in recognition of their career and contribution to the trade on July 14 in Singapore. “Our work is no trivial matter, every day we make things that people put …

What happens when a maverick chef lands in a California icon’s kitchen

What happens when a maverick chef lands in a California icon’s kitchen

Published by Sam Flores

No, Giles Clark won’t be making the watermelon cake during his time as chef-in-residence at Lulu inside the Hammer Museum. Many of us plugged into L.A. dining obsessions last summer won’t forget this summertime darling of the algorithm during Clark’s brief time as the creative force behind Cafe 2001, housed in the back of Yess in the Arts District. A recipe adapted from Toshio Tanabe and his French restaurant in Tokyo, Ne Quittez Pas, a wedge sandwiched candy-red fruit between thin layers of simple sponge cake, covered in smooth whipped cream frosting. Its genius touches: a splotch of watermelon boiled down to jam and, in a nod to Clark’s English origins, Fox’s Glacier Mints grated over top for an invisible menthol coolness. Typing these words, I really miss the watermelon cake, and in general the serious, wonderful peculiarities of Clark’s cooking — the mishmash of pork tenderloin katsu sandwiches, terrines, salads that might combine bitter melon and corn, and afternoon yeasted doughnuts — at Cafe 2001, which too abruptly closed in late January along with …

Michelin-starred chef criticises ‘evil’ pub guests whose dogs ‘attacked chickens’ as children wrecked coop

Michelin-starred chef criticises ‘evil’ pub guests whose dogs ‘attacked chickens’ as children wrecked coop

Published by Sam Flores

A Michelin-starred chef has claimed that guests at his pub allowed their dogs to savage chickens, while their children broke into its coop and smashed fertilised eggs. Former Masterchef: The Professionals finalist Adam Handling said “evil” guests at the Tartan Fox near Newquay, Cornwall let their pets and children cause havoc during last week’s Sunday lunch service. In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, Mr Handling said: “On Sunday, we had a couple of guests that just allowed their dogs off their lead, where there’s signs everywhere saying, ‘Please keep your dogs on a lead, chickens are everywhere’, to just attack our chickens. “A few of them died. They died today after being nursed for the last couple of days, which is really quite sad.” Mr Handling claimed that their children then went into the pub’s chicken coop, where the rooster had been fertilising the eggs to produce more chicks, before they “picked up all the eggs and smashed them against a tree.” “I have no idea what goes through kids’ heads when they’re …

Yes Chef by Grace Reilly

Yes Chef by Grace Reilly

Published by Jenni Sidey

Most romances open with a meet-cute. This one opens with a cocktail shrimp to the face. That shrimp, lobbed across a Hamptons wedding tent by a tipsy bridesmaid at a chef who called her a disco ball, tells you almost everything about the tone of Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly. It is loud, food-obsessed, occasionally mean, and far more tender underneath than its first fifty pages suggest. Reilly built her name on the Beyond the Play college sports romances. This is her first adult standalone, and the change of uniform suits her. The Setup: Two Public Disasters and One Neglected Restaurant Jack Hartman is a James Beard winner with a drinking problem he refuses to name, a mentor he failed to bury, and a temper that finally detonates in front of the wrong critic. Poppy Winfield is a 2.3-million-follower influencer who gets dumped in the same dining room on the same night. He inherits a shuttered Florida restaurant he doesn’t want. She proposes a deal. He agrees on one condition: if she’s going to sell …

Bill Poon obituary: Michelin-starred Chinese chef who changed British dining

Bill Poon obituary: Michelin-starred Chinese chef who changed British dining

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free In the early 1970s, a young Chinese chef was driving Playboy Bunnies home from Mayfair after his night shift – supplementing his wages as a pastry cook at the Playboy Club – while quietly, in whatever hours remained, producing wind-dried meats from an old family recipe. That chef was Bill Poon. Within a decade, Frank Sinatra was ordering his food to his room at the Savoy. Poon, who has died aged 81, came from a family of chefs stretching back seven generations. He was born in Shunde, in China’s Guangdong province, under Japanese military occupation – his family later fled to Macau, where his parents ran a celebrated restaurant and his mother’s skill with a knife was the stuff of local legend. The lineage ran deep: somewhere in the family’s distant past sat an ancestor who cooked for a Chinese emperor and another, it is …

Is the Chef Catering Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding the One Who Catered Trump’s?

Is the Chef Catering Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding the One Who Catered Trump’s?

Published by Sam Flores

In the furious media scavenger hunt for any and all clues about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s and mysterious wedding celebration, one Michelin-starred chef’s name has emerged as the likely caterer: Jean-Georges Vongerichten. According to sources who spoke to The New York Times, a city permit to close the streets around Madison Square Garden suggests the wedding, or a related event, will take place at the venue during the July Fourth weekend, though few details have actually been confirmed. According to reports, even invited guests have yet to receive the specific location of the parties, only that they will be in New York City on Thursday and Friday. Several sources with knowledge of the plans tell Vanity Fair that they believe Vongerichten will be providing food for the festivities. Though, much like the guests, a source familiar with the matter says that even the caterer is waiting on official confirmation. A rep for Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Vongerichten, who catered Donald Trump’s 2005 wedding to Melania and whose namesake …

Kylie Jenner sued by her private chef who claimed that the workload led to her miscarriage

Kylie Jenner sued by her private chef who claimed that the workload led to her miscarriage

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Kylie Jenner’s former private chef claims that her heavy workload contributed to her miscarriage, a new bombshell lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges the 28-year-old’s former private chef had a miscarriage in February 2025 after working long hours and being assigned strenuous tasks, according to the Los Angeles Times. The complaint also named the business management firm Tri Star as a co-defendant. The Times did not identify the chef by name. Her attorney, Della Shaker, told the newspaper: “Celebrity status does not exempt anyone from California’s employment laws. We look forward to presenting the evidence in court and allowing the facts to speak for themselves.” The private chef said she was hired to work for Jenner in November …