And a total number of buttons always capping at 122

Hard to swallow! No new trois-étoiles for the 4th consecutive year, nor even two-star additional. And a total number of buttons always capping at 122. This despite a tribute supported the Red Guide to return to a "cuisine simple, season and based on local products. Since the release, end of January of the 2008 edition of the Michelin Guide for the British Isles, Great Britain does not hide his disappointment. More disappointment that never, Revel, it was as concerned the content of his plate. "Customers require more information about the origin and the conditions of production of the dishes which are served them, acknowledged the editor of the Red Guide. In rediscovering local ingredients, leaders meet these concerns... "When they do feed them themselves by interposed television!

The chicken or the egg

Since the beginning of the year, in fact, not an English, from the breakfast, not wondered about the origin of the egg... or chicken. More a chicken sandwich swallowed revel without a hint of anxiety. Because, with his last crusade against "junk food" centred on battery farming, Jamie Oliver hit hard: gassed live chicks electrocution tear to the eye of poultry also médusées that the audience... Under cover to encourage his countrymen to "think before you eat", the cathode of British leaders did them this time nothing spared.

Result: a nation horrified viewers and a beautiful coup de pub for Channel 4, which, anticipating the hen to the egg of gold, has not hesitated to enter menu its 2008 lineup of... three "celebrity chefs"! Three hats from time to time United in the struggle for the liberation of the chickens but history better pumped up first place audience ratings, continuing in its specialty: to Jamie load to awaken consciences empâtées; to the eco-friendly Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, to show that happiness is in the meadow of an English cottage. at the boiling Gordon Ramsay, finally, the role of Sergeant instructor of distressing brigades also waterproof gâte-sauces to the foundations of the culinary art and the famous bordées of name-calling the host of "Gordon's Kitchen Nightmares."

But Channel 4 is not the only one to go and retake the dishes to the psyche. Not a public or commercial chain that has its "cookery program." Or rather his "cooking show". Because, in these emissions where jostling the stars of the stoves, more or almost the tail of a pot! And so much worse if the formula flirts sometimes with the boundaries of good taste, this kitchen needed to reality TV sauce, chains and leaders appear to find their account.

A model for the France

Thus, less than ten years after BBC television debut in "the naked Chef" Jamie Oliver does not only mutated into millionaire. Thirty-two years, it is also the administrator of a foundation managing four restaurants-schools for young people on the model of his TV, "Jamie's Kitchen" series, and a source of inspiration to France. The "Yes Chef!" program, broadcast by M6 in 2005 with the young chef Cyril Lignac, was a "french" ersatz "Jamie's Kitchen". Ditto for "Long live the canteen!", rehash of advocacy for a balanced school restoration "Jamie's School Dinner".

The head of one of the three only receive British restaurants of three buttons Michelin, Gordon Ramsay has, built in the United Kingdom as abroad a real empire set to expand to France, where it plans shortly not only to open his first Parisian brewery but mostly settle in the premises of the Trianon Palace at Versailles.

In the end, only British consumers would be a little lost. Traumatized by the mad cow crisis, victims faulted a rampant obesity that the Government hoped to stop imposing, as soon as the next re-entry, cooking in the schools classes, they no longer know who dedicate: Jamie Oliver when he simultaneously blasts the distribution or the same when he sale Sainsbury supermarkets in exchange for an advertising contract of 1 million pounds per year A French bible gastronomy or those who, on behalf of the defence of animals, would see use of "false fat", a British invention based liver and poultry fat not fed up claiming "the richness of traditional foie gras, without guilt" Bon Appetit!