Overheard at table....Food goss

So Hugh Farty what’s his face has recruited an Australian disciple to feature in a spin-off of his UK show a River Cottage. Well Hughsie-do your homework mate, we’ve already got a River Cottage Show, it’s called the Gourmet Farmer so stop pinching our ideas you speccy twat!

Adelaide’s Penfolds Magill Estate restaurant has yet again lost another head chef-I’ve lost count there’s been so many. Seems management and the chef were growing in different directions-Management grew up.

New feature length movie about the Sydney food scene is being cast and Actors Equity are already up in arms over the rumoured signing of Steven Segal to play, wait for it, Neil Perry!

Ever eager to keep ahead of the food trends, the Melbourne Tub Group has just arrived back from touring the worlds’ slums. ‘Its just so exciting what they’re doing in these primitive and depressing conditions and we can’t wait to translate it for a Melbourne audience’ said newly appointed CEO Brian Wilson. Fit-out to be done by seven degrees.

In what Bandwagon believes to be an emerging trend, many chef owners are quitting their businesses for the comfort and stability of drawing a wage within large restaurant groups. In what appears to be a win/win situation, the group gets an injection of cred whilst the chef get to do what they do best-get more media exposure.

A new Easter chocolate treat with from left-field has hit the shelves. Stephen Shanabrook who made worldwide headlines with his ‘Suicide Bomber remains cast in chocolate’ which was acquired by David Walsh of Hobart’s much lauded MONA museum, has released a range of chocolate body parts and judging by the sales we’d say it’s a hit!

‘I can’t keep up with making the male genitalia though’, Stephen joked, ‘everyone likes that little bit extra chocolate’.

Tour dates have yet to be announced for the comeback of sorts for some of the notable foodies from the 70’s and 80’s to the present day. Graham Kerr, Keith Floyd, Peter Russell Clark, Aristos, Ian Parmenter, James Reeson, Ken Hom, Ainsley Harriot, Paul Mecurio, Huey and the entire cast of Lifestyle Café. Organisers haven’t yet settled on a venue small enough.

Want to be a kitchen star? Are you the next Jamie, Nigella or Bill? BottomFeederMedia are searching for the next cooking TV Reality star with a twist.

‘The Wheelchair Rambling Cook’, is searching for a wheelchair bound foodie for its new series based on changing perceptions of people cooking with disabilities. Please note, you must be able to speak clearly-no deafs, mutes or other deformities will be accepted.