August 2009 Archives

Whilst happily dining with a friend at the St Pancras branch of artisian bakery Le Pain Quotidien, a former colleague was about to take a sip of his coffee when the most surprising and frankly horrifying thing happened.

Just as he lifted the cup to his lips, a large piece of raw chicken landed on the top of his hand.

"It was horrible," he said. "It seemed to come out of the sky and landed straight on my hand. I could smell an unmistakable whiff of raw chicken and instinctively flipped it off."

On closer inspection, my friend realised that the chicken had been propelled over a partition that separated the kitchen from the customer seating area.

"I made sure the staff knew about it and they were very apologetic but to be honest the damage had already been done," he said.

Oh dear, oh dear! Not content with being on every tabloid newspaper and magazine in the country, the other half of glamour model Jordan aka Katie Price, reports have been hitting the web that he is to publish his own cookbook.

According to the Daily Mirror, the "Mysterious Girl" (or should that be Mysterious Grill?) singer has signed a deal worth £1.5m to write a cookbook series inspired by his Australian and Greek heritage.

A source told the paper: "It will start with barbecue food -  which all men will love - and ways to spruce up a juicy piece of meat."

And as the Jordan and Pete love affairs come to a head this will be yet another battle the couple will have to fight it out: the book charts!

Andre's estranged wife has achieved huge success in the book charts since the release of her first autobiography, Being Jordan, in 2004. And Pete takes is ready to take this on!

With Peter's popularity growing as a family man - while Katie parties in the Med - publishers are confident that the cookbook with prove to be really popular and the public will jump at the chance to get their hands on his family's old Greek recipes!

Whatever next? Will he be next hitting our screens in "Andre goes kitchen side"... I do hope not! Or that'll drive me Insania! 

Twitter isn't just about learning that Stephen Fry is stuck in a lift. Nor is it just a platform to witness Lance Armstrong's public spat with Tour de France rival and 2009 winner Alberto Contador.

More and more, Twitter is being used as an information service and Somerset County Council has become the first local authority to use the micro-blogging site to keep parents informed about what's on the menu.

Apparently it's not just the parents who are keen to know what grub is going into the Somerset tiny-tums during the school day.

When a Kitchen Rat colleague investigated they discovered @SCSSchoolmeals already had its first follower.

I'm not sure Camilla is the audience the school dinners service had in mind...

Clearly @SCSSchoolmeals agreed because it wasn't long before Ms Shaw no longer appeared on the list, most likely blocked.