TV chef James Barber dies
Posted December 3, 2007 – 10:19 am in: News
I’m the oldest of six sons. Mom had us boys working in the kitchen from an early age and I could cook enough to keep from going hungry or spending too much money at McDonald’s.
However, it was James Barber who whet my appetite for possibilities of what meal preparation could be. It was never pretentious, but always from delicious.
I have notebooks full of notes taken while watching The Urban Peasant. Some are just a list of ingredients with no indication of quantities or how they are to be used. There are still dishes I prepare that I first saw cooked by James.
“As far as we can tell, James was sitting at the dining room table, he was reading a cookbook, and he had a pot of soup simmering on the stove. So he definitely left this world in a way that he would have wanted to, but I think he would have been pretty upset about the timing,” she told CBC News.
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I currently live in Luxembourg and hadn’t heard about this. How distressing! I loved the Urban Peasant and loved how at the end of the show he used to say, “And that’s what you do!” He was great and I still stylize my cooking techniques after him. He will be missed.
Anyone out there remember the recipe for James’s
Fruit Fritta or how I can find it?