"tv chef" news and stories

If you've ever wanted to learn how to write about food and turn that knowledge into a career, then Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) has introduced just the thing for you. They've created the Center for Food Media, which offers a range of professional development classes dealing with food and media.

The Center for Food Media offers classes on all aspects of food writing (recipes, blogs, restaurant reviews), food history and pop culture, podcasting, and food styling. You can also learn about writing cookbooks and how to deal with agents, and how to be a TV chef. Coming next year will be classes on wine writing and recipe testing. Classes start at $75 (for a one session class), which is a quite reasonable amount to learn some things that should help further your career.

[Via Eater]

Celeb British Chef Gordon Ramsay has signed a mega deal worth at least £5m to stay with Channel 4 for another four years, thwarting attempts by ITV to lure him away. This deal will see the star stay on the channel until at least July 2011 and will make him one of the best paid celebs on TV.

The 39-year-old Scot will film a number of new shows for Channel 4 in addition to more series of existing favourites Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word. Hell's Kitchen could also be rerun. A fourth series of Kitchen Nightmares is currently in production, but Ramsay will also develop new programmes with the 'queen of food programming', Pat Llewellyn of Optomen Television, who discovered Jamie Oliver in The Naked Chef and produced the Two Fat Ladies.

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