Talk:Fergus Henderson

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Contents 1 Headline text 2 Headline text 3 Undesirable ingredients? 4 Parkinson's disease? 5 Style

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[edit] Undesirable ingredients?

Where on earth did this term 'undesirable' come from? Is Wikipedia in the business of judging people's cooking habits now? They may be unusual parts to cook with, but to describe them as 'undesirable' is inaccurate, non-NPOV, and, above all, ungentlemanly. Having just eaten bone marrow, pig's cheeks, and sweetbreads at St John, i can tell you that at Anderson Towers, they are now highly desirable!

It seems especially odd to use this word when the term offal is less loaded, more precise, and more informative. Offal doesn't strictly include bone, but this strikes me as a fairly minor deficiency.

-- Tom Anderson 2006-08-17

After reading the entry about Fergus Henderson, I was apoplectic to see the food Henderson cooks with beng described as the undesirable parts of the animal. I was pleased to arrive in the discussion page and see Tom Anderson had had the same thoughts days before.

It shows how little people think about what they are eating; why are cheeks any different from rump? Is it because one comes vacuum packed from any supermarket, whereas the other requires a little more effort? Heaven forbid you should have to go to a butchers *as well as* the supermarket.

What all those who write these kind of cuts off as 'undesirable' are missing is that those bits tend to be the tastiest. Most animals spend 90% of their time chewing, and hence have some pretty well used muscles. When properly cooked, cheek is some of the most tender, flavoursome meat you'll ever have. It beats sweaty supermarket steak hands down.

-- Tom Williams 2006-08-21

[edit] Parkinson's disease?

Not sure if it's worth mentioning, but Henderson wrote the afterword for the recent cookbook 'The Perfect Marriage', which was intended to raise money for the Parkinson's Appeal. He mentions that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and then treated with deep brain stimulation. --86.132.145.135 22:37, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Style

Oy, the tone and info contained in this article is so not good. Reads like a fewwbww magazine's wroship page. Will fix if no NPOV foodies want to know. On watch. Plutonium27 (talk) 22:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)