Craig Brown Is Writing Under the Pen Name Jasper Gerard, Surely?
JASPER Gerard endures at the Telegraph, staying on as Craig Brown, the satirist, is booted out. Only, signs are that the men switched name badges. Is this the work of a parodist, or Gerard at The Fat Duck, Heston Blumenthal’s eat-in-lab?
His signature dish, snail porridge, was as important to gastronomy as the pill to female autonomy. It signalled, like the release of the first Beatles LP, the arrival of a new order. British restaurants had already improved staggeringly in the previous decade, but until Blumenthal stormed onto the restaurant scene there was no great sense of food as rock ‘n’ roll. Suddenly, just as the Beatles had dared suggest they were bigger than Jesus, so food usurped music as the populist religion. And like an earlier generation of rock gods, Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay and other pioneering chefs achieved the unimaginable by making Britain the height of culinary cool.
Could Brown have scaled such dizzy heights. Or is Jasper Gerard making the parodist redundant?
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Posted: 14th, January 2010 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
