ianrauk said:
Horrible woman that
Delia. I like
Rick Stein, love his recipies. Gordon Ramasey I can't stand. Caught a programme with him when he was in India last week. Really no nead to keep effin and blindin' at his Indian Femail host.. not very nice at all. Had to turn over as it was so cringe worthy.
Did you see Rick Stein's south east asian tour (I can't remember what it was called...was on the Beeb last year). I caught Ramsey's Indian thing and did find him embarrassing. However, if you saw Stein going around Thailand and Vietnam (the only two I watched) I found him to be pretty pompous and rude too. Not with swearing, but in different ways.
Maybe I'm just being picky because I've been there, but if you are doing a cooking show abroad it may pay to have the few odd phrases. In Thailand he's talking (at) to a street cook saying how nice it is and she says, a few times "amoy mak mak" (delicious, very very) and he ignores until she said it in English. In Vietnam I was a little put out at the places he stayed in and some part with this classic car, driving around (I think) Hanoi as if it was the most common thing to do.
In my opinion, he just wasn't very polite to the locals....even though he had this big whine about not eating dog or snake as it's offensive.
The Top Gear Vietnam special did a much better job of showing the fantastic country that is Vietnam.
*old fart mode over*