I hope not, the guy is a total clown.


http://www.sptimes.com/20..._his.shtml

I watch it sometimes... you are right he is a clown.

what is it about ?

I imagine people without arms having to eat spare ribs ?
Or quadriplegics invited to a walking dinner ...

What is it about ?

From http://www.tv.com/dinner-...mmary.html


Master Chef Robert Irvine is presented with an unusual culinary challenge each week. Will he be able to come up with an authentic 18th century meal? Will he be able to create a rich culinary experience for 150 passengers on a luxury train? Watch as one of the most respected and talented chefs in the world works with his two sous chefs, George and George, to overcome obstacles and deliver a masterpiece of cuisine.

or some shit.... I watch anything on the food porn channel.

Sweeny79 said:

He's also a big fat con artist!

Celebrity chef Robert Irvine blew into town two years ago with the panache of royalty, the ego of a TV star and a plan to turn St. Petersburg into "the next Monaco."

He was about to launch a show on the Food Network, Dinner: Impossible, and was writing a cookbook. Soon the muscle-bound Brit was downing oysters, clinking glasses and telling incredible tales.

He was a knight. He owned a castle in Scotland. He had cooked for presidents and royalty and was pals with Prince Charles.

It is now three months past the planned opening. Look through those windows, past the giant posters of chef Robert Irvine, and you'll see a dirt floor, exposed pipes, lonely ladders.

Irvine's relationships have soured like month-old milk. His Web site consultant claims he owes her thousands. His restaurant designer has backed out. His interior decorator is suing him.

Another woman, St. Petersburg socialite Wendy LaTorre, says Irvine owes her more than $100,000 for marketing and promotions and for helping him find property. Early in their friendship, she asked how he wished to be introduced. "He said, 'Sir Robert Irvine, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order,'" she recalled. "He said there were five levels of knights, and KCVO is the highest level of knight you could be. The queen handpicks you."

Irvine repeated the claim several times. No one questioned it.

Reached on the phone, Irvine said he only had a few minutes. He said he was angry.

Irvine's bio on his own Web page lists a B.S. degree in food and nutrition from the University of Leeds.

True?

"That was a program set up through the Royal Navy," Irvine said. Then he paused. "We don't call it a bachelor's of science."

Sarah Spiller, a press officer at the University of Leeds: "We cannot find any connection in our records between Robert and the university."
Irvine claims in his book to have worked on the wedding cake for Prince Charles and Princess Diana, a claim he repeated to a number of locals.

"It was an English fruitcake that weighed over 360 pounds," he told the Toronto Sun. "I worked on these elaborate side panels, which told the history of the royal Windsor and Spencer families - in icing!"

True?
"I was at the school when that was happening," he said. "They made the cake at the school where I was."
Did he help make it?
"Picking fruit and things like that."

What about that knighthood?

Jenn Stebbing, press officer at Buckingham Palace: "He is not a KCVO Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and he wasn't given a castle by the queen of England."

Irvine admits that.

"When I first came down there and I met people down there with all this money, it was like trying to keep up with the Joneses. I was sitting in a bar one night and that came out. It was stupid."

He said he tried to stop the story from spreading.

Nevertheless, Irvine's restaurant designer, Paul Guillaume says Irvine asked him to create a shadow box to display his royal uniform, which looked like a Three Musketeers costume.

Irvine's resume notes he has received a Five Star Diamond Award (not to be confused with AAA's five diamonds or Mobil's five stars) from the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences for several consecutive years. But as Radar magazine pointed out last year, the "academy" is housed in a Manhattan apartment, and recipients pay for the honor.

As a trustee of the award, Irvine has given out several. He tried to award one to Walter Scheib, the White House executive chef from 1994 to 2005. Scheib refused.

"His award seems to be available to anyone willing to post it on the wall," Scheib wrote in an e-mail to the Times.

Irvine has been identified in several newspapers as a White House chef.

Scheib: "Irvine's ONLY connection with the White House is through the Navy Mess facility in the West Wing ... never in the period from 4/4/94 until 2/4/05 did he have ANYTHING to do with the preparation, planning, or service of any State Dinner or any other White House Executive Residence food function, public or private."

Asked to explain, Irvine said he trained military cooks at the White House.

Did he also serve presidents and heads of state, as several of his bios note?

"I cannot talk about that," he said. "I can't talk about it because it's the White House."

He is not friends with Prince Charles.


[Edited 2/19/08 13:41pm]

He's an ass no doubt and a crazy ass liar too apparently. But it's Food Porn. That's all I need to know.

Sweeny79 said:

Me three. I watch that damn channel more than all the others combined. I even watch it when it's someone I hate, like Lego Head Giada.

FunkMistress said:

I hate big head too, but I like the food she cooks.

Sweeny79 said:

I can't STAND the sound of her voice, or the way she bites her food.

FunkMistress said:

I know what you mean about the biting thing.... she bares he teeth like a dog before she eats...her lips don't touch her food.

Sweeny79 said:

EXACTLY!!! I think it's because she doesn't want to mess up her stupid lipstick.

She did a show where she cooked Superbowl food "for the guys," and it was spaghetti with fucking peas (PEAS!) and some kind of seafood stew. What guy wants PEAS and FISH SOUP while he watches football?? Go get those men some Doritos and get a bag for your big square head while you're at it!

FunkMistress said:

Omg.... you are too much!

Sweeny79 said:

I also hate her perfect manicures. You're in the kitchen cooking food, you should have fucked up man hands like Rachael Ray. Those are kitchen hands.