All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 5
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Profiles
It’s Amanda’s world: an interview with Unilever's Amanda Sourry
A relative unknown when she landed the top job at Unilever last year, Amanda Sourry has been quietly putting her stamp on the business since taking on the role, finds Liz Hamson
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on campaign fatigue and a snog from Greg
I reckon people are suffering from a tiny bit of campaign fatigue at the moment. And who can blame them? They're confronted by a constant stream of celebrity chefs leaping on to the soap box to decry some iniquity or another.
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ProfilesMercurial Marco goes mainstream
Marco Pierre White, the Godfather of Gastronomy, feeds Liz Hamson some Bernard Matthews turkey steak and talks about his new passion for the masses
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on the smoke police's propaganda bandits
So ciggies will soon be kept under the counter, will they? Out of sight, out of mind? Yeah right. Tobacco products are not impulse purchases, so removing them from display is about as likely to stop smokers buying fags as rehab is to stop Charlie...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on Raymond's carte Blanc
I'm all for aspirational cookery. But Raymond Blanc's second series of Kitchen Secrets (8.30pm, BBC2, Monday 28 February) is more perspirational than aspirational. Who, aside from avid Hestonites, would dare to attempt anything beyond...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on patients, petfood, pizza and puke
Only those who've had the misfortune to eat hospital food will know how revolting it is. I certainly didn't appreciate quite how bad until I experienced it first hand.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... goes underneath the Masterchef apron
Hurrah! MasterChef is back. And it's better than ever. Boasting a slick new set and format, the latest series (9pm, BBC1, 16 February) will upset neophobes and has clearly taken its cue from the programme's international offshoots.
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News
Critical Eye... on a dubious return to the Eastern Bloc
I haven't visited The People's Supermarket. So I can only go on the evidence presented in the first in a three-part series tracking eco-restaurateur Arthur Potts Dawson's mission to stick one to Tesco by opening a supermarket that's for the...
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News
Critical Eye... on Balls talking sense
What's this? Huge Furry Wittering-balls talking sense? If only. Hugh's Fish Fight (9pm, C4, 11-13 January) started promisingly enough.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on the adult Blue Peter
There's obviously demand for an adult version of Blue Peter as The One Show demonstrates (and shame on you if that wasn't what sprang to mind!). But when it comes to kids-style TV for grown-ups there's a fine line between success and failure and...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on a labour-intensive stuffing
Oh how I yearn for the wide-eyed Christmas cookery programmes of old when there was an air of innocence about everything and Delia et al were content to share with us the culinary basics. So far, this year's festive offerings have been distinctly...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on hearting the Hairies
There was loads of good telly on this week. Unfortunately, bog-all of it was food-related.
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NewsSales are great, but will Fresh & Easy really break even by 2013?
Sales at Tesco’s US chain are growing. So why do experts maintain it doesn’t have a future unless it undergoes dramatic change, asks Liz Hamson
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on Nigel's soothing enthusiasm
Nigel Slater is the epitome of uncool. He looks like a maiden aunt, speaks so slowly it could easily be deemed patronising and the programme logo with its lower-case N and three-flame shaped Ss well, it's just embarrassing (and with its...
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NewsFrom My Farm to the digital highway
The winner of our £30k Digital Marketing competition is finally poised to launch its first digital marketing campaign – with a little help from Untitled and On&Off Communications. Liz Hamson joins the team on their journey
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News
Critical Eye... on why bread is the new cocaine
It was feast rather than famine as far as food programmes went this week but the one to watch was definitely Turn Back Time The High Street (9pm, BBC1, Tuesday 2 November), even if there was a risk of OD-ing on the odious Gregg Wallace.
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on why brevity is better than wit
Why oh why are so many food and drink programmes an hour long these days? It's as if their makers think it turns them into the equivalent of broadsheets to the half-hour formats' red tops even though they've actually got no more than 10 minutes...
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on sous chefs and disrespectful virgins
There's only so many food and drink "documentaries" and "reality TV" shows I can take and, needing a laugh, I decided to try some food and drink-related comedies.
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News
Critical Eye... on posh pals and Marmite gravy
These are dark, dark days my friends. I resigned myself some time ago to the fact I am now middle-aged despite my best efforts to remain down with the kids (even the outdated slang gives it away, for God's sake).
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Comment & Opinion
Critical Eye... on Jamie's American roasting
I wasn't going to watch Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (10pm, C4, 20 September) because, frankly, the proselytising little nit just sounds like a broken record these days. But then I caught a clip from the first episode in which he blubbed that...