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Keith Floyd (great great great tv chef) dies

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Damn you Floooyd.

Keith Floyd the great "tv chef" has died of a heart attack at the age of 65. A one off, flamboyant, totally inspiring chef, Floyd will be known for his fabulous tv programs and cookery books. For those outside of the UK, you may not know him at all, but for those of us who watched his programmes on fish in the 1980s will be utterly saddened (and frustrated since his autobiography is just about to come out) by his death.

Keith Floyd was ... well ... Floydy really. He would drink on camera, terrorise his poor producer and cameraman and make some of the most inspiring food ever to be seen on tv.

Anyway just watch this from youtube (Keith doing some slow cooked beef ... with shock horror ... red wine :D) ... and this will give you a taste of his ebullience and great humanity.


RIP, Keith ... you really will be terribly terribly missed.

ps ... another youtube video. Floydy doing a pheasant dish. with the shot still in it (!! :D) and the odd mention or two of "pheasant plucking" ... fantastic :D

 
Cailean said:
Nice bloke - pity about his high cholesterol diet.
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Yeah ... there was nothing "lite" about Floydy's food. And if one is going to go out, one might as well go out on a proper high fat and alcohol etc diet :D ... which it seems he seems to have done. I don't think there is any point in enjoying food if you're going to use low fat this and low fat that. And I think Floydy lived that to the core right up to his death.

Such a great loss. Oh well ... here's an article on the Mail On Sunday site in which he talks about the hazards of fame and how he and David Pritchard, his director created "Floyd on Fish" amongst other programmes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ector-Just-did-Keith-Floyds-TV-light-day.html
 
Classic English gentleman! being Irish, I'm not usually fond of the classic English gentleman, but Floyd was a gent. A glass of wine with every dish he cooked, and you just know that if you met him in a pub he would be a really nice guy to have a conversation with. Legend
 
RIP What a great guy he was. Whenever I saw his programmes he did seem to make a habit of bunging everything in a large wok whilst getting sozzled. My type of cooking.
 
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