A seasoned chef. Photograph: PR
Gordon Ramsay has been moving in exalted circles recently. Last week, he made a wonderfully Churchillian pronouncement, appropriately enough at Buckingham Palace, that "Britain stands alone as an identity in cuisine, it can equally match the French now, the Italians and the Americans."
Today we hear that Gordon has been talking to Gordon. According to an interview on the BBC News website this morning, GR has already spoken to the prime minister about outlawing out-of-season produce and goes on to aver that it's fundamentally important for restaurants to provide locally sourced food.
Now obviously it would be wrong, very wrong, to disagree with either of these pronouncements - but we do have an opportunity to test them by tapping into the awesome power of the internet.
As luck would have it, the full menus of all the Ramsay restaurants are available here on his website. Just at random, I noticed the "Oven roasted pigeon from Bresse" on the A La Carte menu at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay - maybe it counts for less food miles than vegetables because it flew over volutarily - but, just for fun, why not pop over, have a nose about and report back on anything you spot that's not local or seasonal?
