Rescue Chef: Danny Boome

By JULIETTE ROSSANT You are out of college in your first real job. You never learned to cook from Mom, Dad or Grandma and now you are living on your own – on take-out. What do you do when it is your turn to invite your date home for a meal? If the Food Network has it's way, you watch the Rescue Chef with Danny Boone. The format is a Food Network stand-by, practiced by Tyler Florence most recently, in which the chef (in this case Danny) goes to someone's house to help teach how to make an important meal. Danny is a British chef who has trained in Canada, Switzerland and the UK. His claim to fame is as a personal chef to the Sultan of Oman in Paris. He's already starred in some UK productions about Canadian food and Norfolk Coastal cooking as well as other shows mostly dealing with teaching cooking. He is a good teacher, he is good to look at, and he doesn't intimidate - think Jamie Oliver. And the show fits into the latest Food Network trend: it's more entertaining than educational. Super Chef previewed "Short Rib Rescue" which premiers Saturday, March 1 at 12:00pm ET/PT. The story goes that a primary school teacher, Carla, wants to recreate her wedding meal of short ribs and mashed potatoes. It's the perfect kind of date meal – make ahead, better the next day, appropriately rich, but without very expensive ingredients. Can you learn to make it watching Danny? Sure you can. Carla, the teacher, manages to recreate the meal for her husband without Danny's help. He breaks down the process into easy steps, but Danny often doesn't say why he is doing something until he is doing it – Carla asks why – and that is a big help. He reviews the steps he's taken after each commercial break and makes sure Carla does much of the work herself. He adds Dijon mustard to the mashed potatoes, and prepares baked figs with Mascarpone cheese for dessert (Carla is oddly shocked at the idea of fruit for dessert). It is a simple, good meal and looks good on air. That is a lot for the Food Network. Did someone say British invasion? Images: Danny Boone - blue Danny Boone - orange Danny Boone - yellow Danny Boone - purple Previous articles: Jamie Oliver: Jamie At Home [Food Television - complete] Technorati Tags: superchefblog, Juliette Rossant, super chef, celebrities, chefs, food, restaurants, cooking, branding, cuisine, blogging, food blogging, Danny Boome, Rescue Chef --> back to Super Chef