“My main problem is that I have a lot of energy and I can’t say no,” Prue Leith says. The culinary star, who is eighty-two years old, has maintained an eclectic career across the pond for something on the order of half a century. Since starting in the early nineteen-sixties as a caterer, she’s operated a Michelin-starred restaurant , opened a cookery school, authored several cookbooks—not to mention a number of romance novels, and a dishy autobiography—and been a judge on competition programs.
It turns out that, first of all, you can’t make any money out of a really cheap restaurant unless it’s huge: you have to have a lot of bums on seats, so you need a huge amount of capital. And, secondly, the idea of combining art and food doesn’t really work. When people are in a mood to eat, they don’t really want to look at paintings; when they want to go to a gallery, they don’t want to sit down and eat a meal.
You’ve now spent nearly two decades judging culinary-competition shows. How has the world of competitive-cooking TV changed in that time? I do think we need to force the wages up, which means, of course, the customers would [have to] be prepared to pay more for restaurant food, and they already complain that it’s tremendously expensive. But you know what? I think we’ll go on paying. I think restaurateurs should be braver, should charge more, should pay more. And the customer will pay more.
That’s very odd that they should think that’s anti-Brexit, because not everyone is from Europe. A lot of the contestants are from Africa, from Asia, from the Middle East. I mean, I’m all for foreigners, don’t get me wrong. I think that painting Brexiteers as little Englanders who only want to have white conservatives do everything—that end of the Tory Party is just dreadful, and I’m not in favor of that. Anyhow, we must get off all this politics, or I’ll get crucified again.
hels Which can cause you're not worldnews, won't start your own business and you're stuck in your old life which you tried to escape. Bit stressful, I suppose :)...
hels Yeah, great. This is her son and he is morally reprehensible:
hels I don't know if you have been watching the latest episodes, but this 'safe place' has gotten a whole lot nastier.
hels Can’t stand her!
hels
hels I guess she hasn't seen Mexico week
hels I love Bake Off. Such an antidote to the mostly frantic, intense American cooking shows. It’s more of a love fest than a cut throat competition.
hels It is a fun, good program. I watched an episode tonight—exactly what I needed to take the cares of the week away.
PrueLeith hels Obvious
PrueLeith Beatiful Lady
hels NYer really holding Prue's feet to the, uh, cozy heating pad here.😁
hels If you have to eat s'mores with a feckin SPOON they ain't s'mores.
hels The Mexican Food episode a clunker? No, the Brits’ speech is not yet so chilled that they worry about the /a/ in “taco”or about wearing a serape w maracas. It’s real culture that in a free society can be referenced by anyone. They’re not on the must nix and dish Bandwagon.
hels Unlike Brexit which Leith, an immigrant, supported. On that basis alone, I despise this woman.
hels A Fuck Off is more exciting tho'.
hels Tacos are not baking
hels 👍
hels Shame about the Brexit support 👎🏻
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