The tabloids became very excited recently when a hot chef arrived in London. Wearing a leather jacket and aviator shades as well as neatly trimmed facial hair he could have stepped straight out of Saturday Kitchen or any other cooking programme gifting the press multipurpose words such as tasty and hunk. He wasnt, however, a real chef. He was Bradley Cooper, The Hangover star, in town to shoot a film that was supposed to be called Chef until another film, Jon Favreaus Chef, nicked that title last year.
From all this confusion you can probably guess that chefs are the hot new thing in movies. And actors like Cooper are going to great lengths to try to get the whole chef thing just right. The Daily Mail reports, for example, that the facial hair was grown for the role. And, as well as studying Marcus Wareing, to learn how to chop veg and so on, Bradley also chatted to Gordon Ramsay about some other key chef skills. As well as giving Cooper a few top tips on cooking, Shouty Gordon said, Ive taught him the most important thing he needs to know in order to get by in a kitchen how to swear.
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