View Full Version : Good lord! Kieth floyd is dead!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/15/keith-floyd-dies
For those that don't know him, he was a TV cooking pioneer, eccentric Englishman, and a culinary master across several continents. I would have loved to meet him.
my goodness first Mr Dirty Dancing now Kieth Floyd R.I.P
For those that don't know him, here's a great episode:
I caught the end of the episode where he's cooking at a Swedish crayfish festival
A barely coherent Keith has clearly been enjoying himself already so cooks an enormous pot of crayfish so endangered you can only catch them one day a year. The stock - probably similar in composition to Keith's own blood stream - is beer and a litre of aquavit.
Each bottle is just chucked away into the darkness off camera as the even drunker Swedes sing songs behind him.
Adding the live crayfish to the stock Keith has some words of comfort for those concerns about animal welfare
"For those who don't understand why the crayfish have to be live.... tough. It's just the way it is"
Many of the crayfish manage to escape anyway as the lid is popped on, but he's too far gone to care.
At the end the delicious looking crayfish are put on a serving plate with about a pound of butter plonked on the top
Rather superfluously Keith's voice adds at the end "Think I might go off and join them for slurp of something now"
And to help your mental image, Keith has done all of this wearing a yellow fez!
A true TV legend"