All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 6
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on a patchwork quilt of pointlessness
OMG. Channel 4 has completely lost the plot. Food (8pm, 15 September) has to be the worst piece of food-related TV I have ever seen. It was as if they'd nicked the shittiest bits from every food programme that's ever been produced, made a huge...
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Critical Eye... on baggy trousers and Lancashire hot pots
The premise of Time Shift: The North on a Plate (9pm, BBC4, Wednesday September 10) was about as loose as its baggy-arsed presenter's trousers.
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Critical Eye... on amoebas and E numbers
Who does Stefan Gates think he is? Francis Ford Coppola? There's plenty of merit in investigating whether E numbers really are as nasty as everyone thinks they are.
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Critical Eye... on chronic wasting and dodgy dairy
Okay, I have a confession: I'm a chronic waster.
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Reformulation means fewer legitimate targets for shock docs
It’s easy to have a pop at the food and drink industry and sometimes the criticism is deserved. But thanks to the level of reformulation over the past few years, legitimate targets are becoming fewer and further between.
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Critical Eye... on winsome kittens and novice decathletes
I'm not sure I like Celebrity Masterchef (8pm, BBC1, 28 July). Perhaps it's because, unlike the plebs, the slebs are known quantities (some of them anyway) and less interested in food or cooking than giving their sorry little careers a boost. What...
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NewsCarlsberg’s Mr Fixit
Carslberg UK was in serious trouble in 2008 – until Dr Isaac Sheps arrived. He tells Liz Hamson how he dragged the second-biggest brewer in the off-trade back from the brink
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Critical Eye... on Barack Obama and gut-busting barbecues
How did Barack Obama put it the other day in that slightly nauseating love-in with new bestest bud David Cameron? "We cherish common values and we speak a common language... most of the time"? You're not kidding.
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Critical Eye... on broken rules and shrivelled aubergines
Aaarrgghhh. There's still sweet FA in terms of food telly thanks to all the sweet FA. I almost subjected myself to The Biggest Loser US (and, I don't mean the England-Slovenia game, hurrah!) but apologies to fans, I couldn't bring myself to watch...
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Critical Eye... on why kids all love an asparagus frittata
There were sparse pickings to be had on the food show front this week thanks to the World Cup. And the one programmeI would have written about Mary Queen of Shops we covered last week.
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NewsEditor's Comment: He's famed for his small ego, but Sir Terry will leave a big gap
I should have guessed something momentous was going to happen as soon as the editor booked his holiday - last time Adam was away, Andy Bond announced he was stepping down as CEO.
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NewsDigital Dragons' Den: the finalists
Earlier this year, The Grocer ran a fabulous competition to win a £30,000 digital marketing strategy. Seven finalists were shortlisted. They made their pitches to three ‘digital dragons’ in our executive den – and we’d like you to be dragon number four.
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Critical Eye... on Rick Stein's special speciousness
As pointless goes, I've seen worse, I suppose. There was the S-level question on whether the only meaningful literature in the future would be written by Catholics or other groups with strong value systems.
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Critical Eye... on gameshow gastronomes and apprentice nerds
I love a bit of car-crash TV and this week there were two generous helpings. First up was a Come Dine with Me gameshow host special (9pm, C4, 24 May) featuring former Fun House frontman Pat Sharp (sans mullet), Wheel of Fortune babe Jenny Powell...
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Critical Eye... on the low-fat food gods
First we had the ghastly BNP twinning itself with the nation's favourite Marmite in that Party Political Broadcast. Now we have Family Food Fight with Flora.
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Critical Eye... on muddy boots and fish out of water
There was plenty to chuckle at on TV this week. Like that shot of the Queen shaking hands with Cameron at the Palace (you know, the pre-smile one that suggested she'd rather have been watching Holby City).
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Critical Eye... on Heston's 70s sophistry
Heston Blumenthal’s gastronomic sophistry has always left me cold, and after subjecting myself to an early episode of the pug-faced one’s latest series, I’d gone out of my way to avoid subsequent offerings.
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Critical Eye... on bigots, Boris and iron chefs
Some folk just don't have the gift of the gab, do they, as Gordon 'gift of the gaffe' Brown demonstrated yet again with his mean-spirited "she's just a sort of bigoted woman" dismissal of poor everybigot Gillian Duffy.
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Critical Eye... on gormless horses and shooting Hoorays
I knew that in catching up with the two runners-up from The Restaurant as they struck out on their own (Out of the Frying Pan, The Shooting Party, 9pm, BBC2, Monday 19 April) I'd be jumping into the proverbial fire after the upset to my equilibrium...
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: The big money says McKenna or Clarke. The smart money says Cheesewright
First Bolland. Now Bond. Clearly there's something more than just volcanic dust in the air at the moment.