I never was a disciple of the Jamie Oliver ministry, or any other celebrity chef that knows shit about food safety (which is most of them, see the abstract from our 2004 paper, below). Alexis Carey of The Courier Mail … Continue reading
A public health type asked me yesterday, what ever happened to those videos you made in 2002 that Food Network Canada made you take down, after showing them at a talk in Prince Edward Island, perhaps prompted by a Charlottetown … Continue reading
"If you read Doug Powell’s FSnet e-mail news, you have probably spotted some of his rants against unsafe techniques demonstrated on television cooking shows."So says Gary Acuff, president of the International Association for Food Protection in his June 2008 column about the poor food safety practices of celebrity chefs
Celebrity chef-type Jamie Oliver – who was a stand-out in our 2004 paper, Spot the Mistake about celebrity chefs and food safety mistakes — may be trying to rid Los Angeles of chocolate milk, but health inspectors want him to pay more attention to crap in his U.K. restaurants.
ozforex Speaking of cooking shows, researchers from Germany have concluded poor hygiene when handling food is a major cause of foodborne illness. To investigate whether hygiene practices visible in television cooking shows influence viewers’ kitchen hygiene, a study on the … Continue reading
Good luck with that. Most people undercook chicken liver because they follow food porn bullshit on cooking shows (yes, we did that research 15 years ago, see below FSIS is issuing this guideline to promote a reduction in pathogens in … Continue reading
If you were deserted on a desert island, what would be the top 5 records/CDs/cassettes/8-tracks you would bring? Stones, Beggar’s Banquet Stones, Let it Bleed Tragically Hip, Up to Here Blue Rodeo, 5 Days in May Old and in the … Continue reading
In 2004, my laboratory reported (and by reported I mean published in a peer-reviewed journal) that, based on 60 hours of detailed viewing of television cooking shows, an unsafe food handling practice occurred about every four minutes, and that for … Continue reading
In grade 12, I ran for high school president (we had grade 13 back then, and that’s me, right, exactly as shown). There were two assemblies, one for the juniors followed by one for the seniors, in which my opponent … Continue reading
I can’t watch cooking shows. The music is terrible, the chefs are awful and food safety is essentially non-existent (see paper we wrote over a decade ago). A post on the social media site Reddit asked people who have worked … Continue reading