Comments on: Perhaps a custard pie fight would settle this http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/ Just another irishtimes.com weblog Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:29:29 +0000 By: Liz http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4546 Liz Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:20:39 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4546 Tonight Cilla, I think I'm going to have to go for ... Number Threeeeeeeeeeeee! Tonight Cilla, I think I’m going to have to go for … Number Threeeeeeeeeeeee!

]]> By: Bill http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4545 Bill Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:17:33 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4545 McGrath has opened his kitchen to cameras at a very early stage, a brave thing to do if you ask me. Did it occur to you that his awkward manner on the show may have something to do with the fact that it is the first interview on tv the lad has ever done? He spoke when he was spoken to (unlike kevin Dundon) and was backed into a corner on a few occasions. I think for his first time the guy handled it pretty well. McGrath has opened his kitchen to cameras at a very early stage, a brave thing to do if you ask me.

Did it occur to you that his awkward manner on the show may have something to do with the fact that it is the first interview on tv the lad has ever done?

He spoke when he was spoken to (unlike kevin Dundon) and was backed into a corner on a few occasions.

I think for his first time the guy handled it pretty well.

]]> By: cw http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4491 cw Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:36:20 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4491 Thornton does very well in presenting himself in the media. Extremely well, in fact. And he is an exceptional chef, without question. Don't get me wrong about McGrath though, I don't think you could put a camera in any Michelin-starred restaurant and see a huge difference in what they showed. It's his manner in the studio I was talking about, he just strikes me as disagreeable. Most chefs are arseholes in the kitchen but can put it to one side when they're doing other things. Maybe he just revelled in the pantomime villain role he was cast in by the audience. Thornton does very well in presenting himself in the media. Extremely well, in fact.

And he is an exceptional chef, without question.

Don’t get me wrong about McGrath though, I don’t think you could put a camera in any Michelin-starred restaurant and see a huge difference in what they showed. It’s his manner in the studio I was talking about, he just strikes me as disagreeable.

Most chefs are arseholes in the kitchen but can put it to one side when they’re doing other things. Maybe he just revelled in the pantomime villain role he was cast in by the audience.

]]> By: Shane http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4490 Shane Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:30:55 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4490 CW - Yet, his point is that you have to be a hard bastard to be a great chef, so he revels in that. I haven't eaten there, so I can't tell you if the result is worth it. As for Kevin Thornton, I've met and interviewed him and I found him to be a charming and intelligent man. And he is a really good chef, which helps. CW - Yet, his point is that you have to be a hard bastard to be a great chef, so he revels in that. I haven’t eaten there, so I can’t tell you if the result is worth it.

As for Kevin Thornton, I’ve met and interviewed him and I found him to be a charming and intelligent man. And he is a really good chef, which helps.

]]> By: cw http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4489 cw Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:26:40 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4489 McGrath comes across as a monumental a**ehole. Surprisingly more so than Kevin Thornton. McGrath comes across as a monumental a**ehole.

Surprisingly more so than Kevin Thornton.

]]> By: Daddy Dec http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4482 Daddy Dec Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:38:00 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4482 He looks like an awful plank that Dylan lad...I suppose he's going down the whole Irish Gordon Ramsey route... Thought the other lad handled himself quite well...The two of them probably made up after the show, by nipping to Burger King. He looks like an awful plank that Dylan lad…I suppose he’s going down the whole Irish Gordon Ramsey route…

Thought the other lad handled himself quite well…The two of them probably made up after the show, by nipping to Burger King.

]]> By: Twenty Major http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4478 Twenty Major Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:14:07 +0000 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/01/30/perhaps-a-custard-pie-fight-would-settle-this/#comment-4478 It is possible to hate somebody for the way they hold their head? If so that McGrath bloke is on the list. It is possible to hate somebody for the way they hold their head? If so that McGrath bloke is on the list.

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