Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 2, 2016 Franco-Swiss chef Benoît Violier dead of an apparent suicide. He was 44. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2016/01/31/97001-20160131FILWWW00190-le-grand-chef-cuisinier-franco-suisse-benoit-violier-a-mis-fin-a-ses-jours.php Lucky I didn't tell him about the dirty knife. LIKE LIKE LIKE Well played Guesty. SC 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted January 23, 2017 Assault by chilli powder! http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/man-taken-hospital-after-chef-12493469 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted January 23, 2017 Something must have made him hot headed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted January 23, 2017 Something must have made him hot headed. He was definitely seeing red after that was thrown in his eyes! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted January 23, 2017 Nothing to do with death (apart from the fact that he has carked it) but an interesting article on Keith Floyd and the rise of the celebrity chef phenomenon: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1189714/Celebrity-chefs-said-Keith-Floyd-Id-like-napalm-lot-them.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,417 Posted February 1, 2017 Restauranteur Frank Pellegrino has died aged 72. He is famous not for his cooking, but for his acting (IMDB). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted April 4, 2017 Peter Russell-Clarke's starting to look old now: Article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-04/peter-russell-clarke-the-celebrity-chef-who-is-also-an-artist/8411860 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted April 4, 2017 19 minutes ago, Davey Jones' Locker said: Peter Russell-Clarke's starting to look old now: Article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-04/peter-russell-clarke-the-celebrity-chef-who-is-also-an-artist/8411860 He's in his 80s? He looks like he's in his mid-60s to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted April 4, 2017 1 minute ago, Joey Russ said: He's in his 80s? He looks like he's in his mid-60s to me. They must live hard where you're from. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted April 17, 2017 Article behind the Times paywall on Andrew Fairlie's cancer battle: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/fairlie-defiant-in-battling-cancer-7vclfnj0j Andrew Fairlie, a pick of my B-Team, is Scotland's most esteemed chef. Has anybody access to the whole thing and can tell me whether he was a good pick? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted April 17, 2017 21 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Article behind the Times paywall on Andrew Fairlie's cancer battle: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/fairlie-defiant-in-battling-cancer-7vclfnj0j Andrew Fairlie, a pick of my B-Team, is Scotland's most esteemed chef. Has anybody access to the whole thing and can tell me whether he was a good pick? He was diagnosed with it after seizures in 2005. Only 2/3rds of the tumour is operable, and has been removed. He is undergoing what sounds like permanent chemo to keep the rest under control (and has had chemo so long he's acclimatized to it and no longer gets sick). He postponed chemo last year for a bit to climb Kilimanjaro, but is back on it. He still works full time. Quote I make the mistake of assuming he is off active treatment and in remission. “I’m actually having chemo just now,” he tells me. “It is always something that is going to be there. I know at some point it is going to become more aggressive. It is just the nature of the tumour I have got.” 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted April 17, 2017 Many thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted April 17, 2017 Celebrity chefs are all a bunch of rancid c*nts that need puting into an industrial meat grinder so that they become edible for pigs. Well maybe Id leave The Galloping Gourmet out of it because he was pretty good. That apart, Keith Floyd died and those other wankers are still with us. Life really isnt fair, is it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted April 17, 2017 9 hours ago, gcreptile said: Article behind the Times paywall on Andrew Fairlie's cancer battle: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/fairlie-defiant-in-battling-cancer-7vclfnj0j Andrew Fairlie, a pick of my B-Team, is Scotland's most esteemed chef. Has anybody access to the whole thing and can tell me whether he was a good pick? What does he do? Gourmet fried Mars Bars and haggis? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted April 17, 2017 19 minutes ago, Davey Jones' Locker said: What does he do? Gourmet fried Mars Bars and haggis? Charon will be over soon to eat your liver. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted April 17, 2017 14 minutes ago, Davey Jones' Locker said: What does he do? Gourmet fried Mars Bars and haggis? Ahem, Davey Boy Smith! Tastier than koala burger, I'm sure. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,141 Posted April 17, 2017 43 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: Charon will be over soon to eat your liver. Deep fried in batter, of course. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted April 17, 2017 A chef who I don't think has been mentioned on DL before is Japanese sushi maestro Jiro Ono, 91. He'd definitely obit but probably isn't going anywhere soon, as he's still preparing and dishing up his wares in person at his Tokyo restaurant. Ono was the star of the critically acclaimed documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted April 18, 2017 On 06/01/2011 at 14:57, Davey Jones' Locker said: **** Lorenza de Medici - Italian. She must be fairly ancient now but I can't find any age or health info online ***** 6 years later she is still going strong and I just found out she was born back in 1926. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,530 Posted April 20, 2017 My boy Antonio Carluccio looking OK at his 80th birthday celebrations here, it'll be a sad day when there's just one greedy Italian left. This also means that he wasn't born in 1935 as the opening post says. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 905 Posted April 21, 2017 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4430766/Hell-s-Kitchen-chef-Paulie-Giganti-36-dead.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted April 22, 2017 I was looking at this cookbook in a shop yesterday: The Citroen on the cover had actually belonged to Keith Floyd. His daughter sold it to James Martin. Martin claims that when he sat in it for the first time, he could still smell the odour of Floyd's booze inside. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted June 10, 2017 Inventor of the Hawaiian pizza dies: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-10/hawaiian-pizza-investor-sam-panopoulos-dies/8607108 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted June 24, 2017 Darren Simpson follows in Floyd's footsteps and drinks himself to death: https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/36097224/celebrity-chef-darren-simpson-dies-of-suspected-heart-attack/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 24, 2017 6 hours ago, Davey Jones' Locker said: Darren Simpson follows in Floyd's footsteps and drinks himself to death: https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld/a/36097224/celebrity-chef-darren-simpson-dies-of-suspected-heart-attack/ Sounds like he choked on drunk chicken. Minus the chicken. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
