Are You a Talented Home Cook with an Amazing Historic Family Recipe?
If so, ITV’s favourite Celebrity Chef
Gino D’Acampo
wants to hear from YOU!
Gino D’Acampo is on a mission to prove that “There’s No Taste Like Home”. He’s on the hunt for home cooks with fantastic family recipes, undiscovered gems, good, honest family food…
Forget the frills and ditch the fiddly garnishes. If you’ve got a fantastic recipe that’s been passed down through your family for generations, family favourites that have been enjoyed for decades, then Gino wants to hear from you …
There’s No Taste Like Home*, ITV’s brand new cookery show gives talented home cooks the chance to showcase their very own family recipes in a local restaurant. The winning dish will have the honour of staying on the restaurant’s menu for an entire month.
If you think your dish has what it takes
please email
notastelikehome@itv.com or call 090 11 11 33 77
Yes all restaurants report to serve wonderful food and until you get there you are shrouded by this sometimes illusion. This fab app allows you to upload piccies of dishes from individual restaurants and give them a ‘nom’ rating. What a splendid idea! There will be of course, many restaurants that do not like this app, I say – tough! Pull your socks up.
So it’s two o’clock in the morning and you are yearning for Peking Duck, some hot Sake, and perhaps a packet of Polo’s and some Rennies. Yelp jumps in to the rescue! This handy app lists places to eat, shop and drink, with contact details and opening times. Handy reviews from the ‘community’ provide feedback (not always from the business owner either!)
Jamie Oliver, the patron saint of Essex has brought to us his app for tasty meals that can be prepared in a 20 minute flash. Yes, we are all so busy etc., etc., that time to cook has become a rare luxury (even though many people dwindle away hours watching xfactor and soap operas, ahem.) So here you can find a host of quick recipes that will feed your family without the fuss. If you cannot cut up onions or garlic, it will take you at least 30 mins though…
OK, so we live in a society where nobody wants to actually ‘talk’. Why talk, when you can press buttons and forego all that embarrassing politeness and god forbid – questions. Open Table takes the hassle out of reserving a table at your favourite eatery, by allowing you to view where tables are available, how long you will need to wait and book without even a whiff of scary human interaction.
So you don’t know your velouté from your vichyssoise this great little app will educate! Food stuffs and dishes from popular world cuisines are simply defined so that you knows what they is… I heard that A.A.Gill ‘relies’ on this app – no, really!
OK, so you are in a restaurant and you want to take a photo of your fine dish du jour (to upload to Foodspotting), although it is dark and the haughty restaurant expressly states ‘no photographs’. Ahh, but wait Flashlight shines a light on this dilemma. Just pretend you are showing this fabulous app to your friend “Oh look, bright light – haw haw” and then whisk out your camera, turn off the flash – surreptitious snap, snap & done.
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