I was checking for the upcoming event at the CTICC: the “good food and wine” festival.
As a Pastry Chef and passionate foodie i’m looking forward to it.
The good news is that so many High “celebrity” chefs will be there and that is a good thing: those chefs bring up the spirit of the younger generation and students; commis and CDP can look up to them to dream, one day, to become so rich and famous… (well almost like ‘American Idol’ or so..)

The main event will be the presence of “kitchen superman” Gordon Ramsay.
Mr Ramsay is multi million Pound rich Chef where there is NO doubt at all about his amazing cooking career and i wish i would have the chance (at least for one day!) to work with him.
I ‘m a big fan and i watch and re-watch over and over again all his TV shows (my poor Girlfriend!!).
NOW, the organizers of the GF&W want an extra R300,I REPEAT R300 to see him cooking in a cooking theatre…
WTF, so much money for maybe 20 min. of chopping some onion, a couple of “FxxxK” and some jokes?
The food is all prepared in the back by some commis.
I’m very disappointed, so much money to cash up on young chefs that already have little chance to make proper money!!

Could Mr. Ramsey (on top of his 25 restaurant around the world and over 100 million pound revenue per year) show his face for free?

If it would be a 1 hour cooking class i would pay R1000 to have the chance to absorb some of his knowledge.
But for a bit of show and some F****K i don’t think is worth it: Chefs swearing is the most common communication form in the Kitchen since the the beginning of the Chef job (probably the 2nd oldest job in the human kind).

I will go to the GF&W Show to see other people (for me the highest point will be Willie Harcourt-Cooze, the chocolate crazy man) but regarding the organisers and Mr. Ramsey i’m really really F***ing pissed off!