Forget cloned meat, now they're cloning chefs. Photograph: PR
It's been quite a short and chickenny season, but tonight this Food Fight on Channel 4 is topped off by a live cookoff, with Gordon Ramsay leading the nation through the cooking of a three course meal.
Clearly thinking we might all have had enough chicken by now, or, in fact, given it up entirely, he has elected to cook something else. And if you've got your ingredients (as listed on the Channel 4 website), you'll already know what that might be. And while he's doing that, we'll be liveblogging it over on our sister blog, Organ Grinder, hoping that something wild and crazy happens, like the burning of a starter, or accidentally setting fire to Chris Moyles.
The Big Food Fight has sparked much conversation over the last couple of weeks. Price of chickens debated earnestly, chicken alternatives suggested (albeit chicken alternatives to chickens. Oh just read Warren's piece, you know what I mean), batteries defended and wondering what the point of any of it was.
We did toy with the idea of live-cooking-blogging, until the logistics of typing, watching television and making food all at once proved insurmountable. Particularly for a liveblogger with her television and kitchen separated by a flight of stairs. Besides, who eats a three course meal at 10pm, bar the rich and eccentric or shift workers?
So tonight, there'll be that liveblog of the event itself over on Organ Grinder, and then, over the weekend and with the aid of some kind of trusty digital recorder or other, I'll be attempting to cook it in real time, and will report back on the undoubtedly messy results here on Word of Mouth on Monday.
Are you going to 'Cook With Gordon'? Or has the prospect of steak and scallops put you off, being, after all, not the cheapest ingredients to begin with? Will you be giving it a go but making clever substitutions of your own? Or following the word of Gordon like the letter of the law? Whatever you're doing, or not, come back on Monday and tell us how you did.
