The feuding rivalry between Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White has just heated up a notch. Ramsay, star of Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, has been doing well with his two shows on US channel Fox. But last night, White's new show, The Chopping Block (concept: rival teams compete to revive defunct New York restaurants), launched on NBC with great fanfare. The New York Times review describes him as "the Chuck Berry of swashbuckling cuisine" and notes the breathless reaction of one swooning contestant: "It's like he invented food, almost." No reaction as yet from Gordon to that claim, but it's not hard to imagine the tone or the volume, is it?
