pugwash
New member
Please advise
How do you afford to lunch at La Gavroche AND run a boat?
How do you afford to lunch at La Gavroche AND run a boat?
steve_cronin
N/A
Re: Please advise
Once in a lifetime and then only the special offers!
Plus the boat earns it's living by being on charter.
Steve Cronin
(it's the two kids at London Med. Schools that are the financial killer!!)
Once in a lifetime and then only the special offers!
Plus the boat earns it's living by being on charter.
Steve Cronin
(it's the two kids at London Med. Schools that are the financial killer!!)
pugwash
New member
Re: Please advise
Don't worry, your time will come. You might be pushing a Zimmer when it happens but one day they'll take you to dinner at La Gavroche.
Don't worry, your time will come. You might be pushing a Zimmer when it happens but one day they'll take you to dinner at La Gavroche.
steve_cronin
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Re: Please advise
Well since a newely qualified nurse who gets a Bursary during three years of training is due to get the around the same pay as a newly qualified doctor who has had to fund himself through training for FIVE (min) years, I'm not waiting for that!
Steve Cronin
& it's "Le Gavroche"
Well since a newely qualified nurse who gets a Bursary during three years of training is due to get the around the same pay as a newly qualified doctor who has had to fund himself through training for FIVE (min) years, I'm not waiting for that!
Steve Cronin
& it's "Le Gavroche"
bigmart
New member
Re: Please advise
Does that make it masculine or feminine & whats a Gavroche anyway.
Martin
Does that make it masculine or feminine & whats a Gavroche anyway.
Martin
DMW
New member
Re: Please advise
I believe a "gavroche" is a sort of Parisian street urchin, so presumably could be gender non-specific, though the usual rule in French is for words ending in -e to be femine. I'm confused.
I believe a "gavroche" is a sort of Parisian street urchin, so presumably could be gender non-specific, though the usual rule in French is for words ending in -e to be femine. I'm confused.
bigmart
New member
Re: Please advise
My Son's Languages teacher tells me that Breasts are masculine in French.
Martin
My Son's Languages teacher tells me that Breasts are masculine in French.
Martin
NigeCh
New member
7 months to become a chef ?
Much as I love/hate Jamie Oliver, IMO, he is on a hiding to nothing.
I was brought up in an hotel kitchen and learned the hard way that work in a kitchen is work. I saw last night's TV programme and .... and .... and ....
The nose picking/nail biting followed by unwashed hands moving the poached eggs was just tooooooo much.
Cooking is an art ---- IMO, 7 months will neither teach them how to poach eggs nor to even manage to slice an onion properly.
OK, I'm jealous of Jamie Oliver - He's making money out of a bunch of hopeless idjits (apart from possibly 2) who haven't a hope in hell of working out what happens to mustard when you cook it --- or to be even blunter, of how to boil water.
Much as I love/hate Jamie Oliver, IMO, he is on a hiding to nothing.
I was brought up in an hotel kitchen and learned the hard way that work in a kitchen is work. I saw last night's TV programme and .... and .... and ....
The nose picking/nail biting followed by unwashed hands moving the poached eggs was just tooooooo much.
Cooking is an art ---- IMO, 7 months will neither teach them how to poach eggs nor to even manage to slice an onion properly.
OK, I'm jealous of Jamie Oliver - He's making money out of a bunch of hopeless idjits (apart from possibly 2) who haven't a hope in hell of working out what happens to mustard when you cook it --- or to be even blunter, of how to boil water.
colin_jones
New member
Re: Please advise
Le sein might be masculine in French .... but 'breasts' are plural wherever you find them!!
Le sein might be masculine in French .... but 'breasts' are plural wherever you find them!!
G
Guest
Guest
Re: 7 months to become a chef ?
Wasn't the fact that they came from "hopeless" backgrounds supposed to be the point.
I can't help thinking you're being a bit dismissive their Nige - with your "hopeles idiots".
Geoff
Wasn't the fact that they came from "hopeless" backgrounds supposed to be the point.
I can't help thinking you're being a bit dismissive their Nige - with your "hopeles idiots".
Geoff
steve_cronin
N/A
It iss veery incouragink...
...zat you haff faced up to your jealousy mein freund.
You are halfe vay zeere vit diss.
Keep it uup
I too vorked in a hotel kutchen ven young.
Ziggy
...zat you haff faced up to your jealousy mein freund.
You are halfe vay zeere vit diss.
Keep it uup
I too vorked in a hotel kutchen ven young.
Ziggy
plopp
New member
Re: Please advise
So are the French
Andy
So are the French
Andy
BrendanS
Well-known member
Re: 7 months to become a chef ?
Write up in todays Independent. Took a real cynic along (girl who lives in flat over restaurant, and has complained every step of the way about noise, fumes from duct from kitchen etc) and reckoned it was excellent
Write up in todays Independent. Took a real cynic along (girl who lives in flat over restaurant, and has complained every step of the way about noise, fumes from duct from kitchen etc) and reckoned it was excellent
NigeCh
New member
Let\'s modify this slightly
Cooking on a passage.
Assume you've got, say, an 8 day passage, could you cook for say a crew of 4 and keep them happy with the food and the variety of the food ? - The food's got to be varied, wholesome, tasty and fit for keeping up morale and crew strength on passage.
Cooking on a passage.
Assume you've got, say, an 8 day passage, could you cook for say a crew of 4 and keep them happy with the food and the variety of the food ? - The food's got to be varied, wholesome, tasty and fit for keeping up morale and crew strength on passage.
BrendanS
Well-known member
Re: Let\'s modify this slightly
Different flavour pot noodle every day?? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif
Anwer is no, not me, haven't got the patience for cooking. Like restaurants and microwave ready meals.
Different flavour pot noodle every day?? /forums/images/icons/wink.gif
Anwer is no, not me, haven't got the patience for cooking. Like restaurants and microwave ready meals.
G
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Guest
One of your better posts, Steve.
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