Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Chefs go back to basics

Celebrity chefs were given a bake last week over the nutritional value of their top-selling recipe books. But three leading Queensland chefs have tipped the drainer on suggestions the industry needs a master class in how to cook for real people.

David Pugh, Brad Jolly and Paul McGivern create top-quality cuisine at work every day, but these award-winning culinary kings know they need to get back to basics when it comes to impressing their toughest critics—their kids.

While Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay were accused by a UK report of encouraging unhealthy eating through fat-filled recipes, Mr Jolly, of Brisbane CBD restaurant Alchemy, said the key to cooking for his family was to do "something that's not too complicated but with great quality ingredients''.

The chef's favourite meal is a ragu using a recipe supplied by his Italian mother-in-law. He also likes whipping up vegetable soups which he uses to trick his three-year-old son Mackenzie into eating veges.

The Sunday Mail., March 15

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