Hell’s Kitchen Update

I do not watch this show.  I love Gordan Ramsey as a chef, but American TV has taken what made him a star in England and filtered it down to just a potty mouthed Brit with a bad temper.  Watch the BBC Kitchen Nightmares and you will see what I mean.  Or better yet google some of his vids that are on the net.  Bloody brilliant!  I his amazing but Hollywood can’t just leave well enough alone.

 

Anyway for those of you who do watch Christina won and here is the recap.

Grillin’ Green

There is and probably always will be a debate as to which grill is better gas or charcoal.  Gas grillers argue for the ease of use of their and quickness of lighting.  Charcoalers rightfully argue that propane simply does not taste as good and jokingly remind their rivals that seem to always run out of gas in the middle of cooking almost every time.  After all these years that is what the argument has come down to, ease vs. taste.

Well now we have a new factor – ecology.  If you are green minded then this may be the dicieding factor for you.  As Liza de Guia reports on the Internet-based show Titan Green charcoal briquets soaked in lighter fluid are much dirtier than gas.  Gas is equally significantly nastier on the planet than grills using all natural charcaol chunks and a chimney starter.  Check out the video HERE.

I am not an enviromentalist whacko but at the same time I do not believe this planet is something that will survive without our help.  My green-ness goes like this – I want us to develop alternative fuel vehicles because I am tired of being a slave to the government and big oil.  I prefer organic, locally sourced foods not because it is better for the enviroment but because the food tastes better and it helps the local economy.  I am a green out of selfishness.

Gonzalez Speedy Indeed

All Pro tight end Tony Gonzalez of the Kansas City Chiefs has long been considered a grid iron hero.  Now the Southern California grad is a true hero.

Last Thursday Gonzalez and family were dining at Capone’s Italian Restaurante in Huntington Beach, CA when the man at the next table began choking on his steak.  10 seconds later the man was breathing again and Gonzalez was seated with his family like nothing had happened.  What had happened, however, was that the record breaking pass catcher had performed the Heimlich maneuver.  No biggie.  “Tony saved my life. There’s no doubt,” Ken Hunter, a shipping company manager, told The Associated Press.

Check out the story in the Kansas City Star.