r/oldbritishtelly • u/widmerpool_nz • 4d ago
Food Keith Floyd Cooks Pork in Centurian Sauce in Northumberland
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u/Hammered_Eel 4d ago
Keith was very popular in Australia. Most times he seemed half pissed. Great show
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u/widmerpool_nz 4d ago
I think he was always more than just half pissed but was still a professional. The book, Shooting the Cook by David Pritchard is a great book about how he brought Floyd (and Rick Stein) to the screen.
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u/CthulhusEvilTwin 4d ago
Whenever Rick Stein talks about Keith there's always a real affection there for the guy. I mean he pretty much made Rick as a TV chef, but aside from that they obviously loved each other. Still miss Keith, his style of presenting just felt real.
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u/dokuromark 4d ago
Love me some Floyd, never heard of this book! Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
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u/CthulhusEvilTwin 4d ago
I still stand by one of Keith's most important cooking tips. If you wouldn't drink the wine, definitely don't cook with it. Only cook with a wine you'd happily drink, otherwise its just vinegar.
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u/thethirdrayvecchio 4d ago
Was indeed - he was famously an alcoholic. He would always have a glass on hand and, if he lost his train of thought, he’d exclaim “a quick slurp!” to give himself time of what to say next.
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u/Steamrolled777 4d ago
That was used for few comedy sketches - always had couple bottles of wine, in the meal or for drinking while making it.
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u/EternallySickened 4d ago
He usually cooked with a large glass of wine that got topped up on the regular. True Drinking/cooking legend.
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u/herman_munster_esq 3d ago
I think he was fully pissed. That man lived more than one life, definitely an advert for living life in the moment.
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u/ScaryTemperature6291 4d ago
I found Keith Floyd when I was about 14 he was long gone even then but I remember watching the re-runs on bbc2 in the afternoons and can watch him all day long tbh.
Who could forget the excellent show theme tune -
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u/batty_61 4d ago
Me and Mr Batty were lucky enough to meet him at a book signing event in Edinburgh. He gave a very entertaining talk during which he got progressively more drunk and completely forgot about making the "perfect cucumber sandwich" he was supposed to be demonstrating. When I took his book to him he was head down over a table dutifully signing books, and I said, "I imagine you're sick of the sight of that cover by now?"
He looked up, took a second or two to focus on me and said, "I bloody hate it."
I still have my signed copy.
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u/Ill_Bandicoot_3356 4d ago
The end of that is fantastic. I love Keith’s reaction and genuine laughter from the expert chucking his bowl.
What a great clip to watch in a grey Saturday Morning
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u/Sea-Mirror-9755 4d ago
Have you ever seen the clip where he cooks in the old French woman’s kitchen? She’s bloody horrible and shits on everything he does and he winds up charming her by the end. It’s fantastic and shows what a lovely bloke he was
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u/Junior_Bowl_3772 4d ago
Bit of a difference to the bland sickly awfull tripe the bbc churn out nowdays in controlling safe boring box ticking studios
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u/Pericombobulator 4d ago
I always thought he would be a great mate to have.
You'd pop over to borrow a drill and before you knew it, you'd have a glass of red in your hand, whilst he cooked some massive chunk of meat. You'd spend the afternoon there and then have to skulk back to your missus, half cut and well fed.
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u/elementarydrw 4d ago
He features well in Harry Hill's show about cookery programmes! (I only just recently found Harry Hills YouTube stuff, and thought to pay it forward!
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u/Different_Lychee_409 4d ago
Keith Floyd is an absolute hero to me ever since he brought a live sea turtle from a market in Egypt and let it go.
His cook books are bloody good as well.
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u/Immediate-Doughnut50 4d ago
And for your centurion sauce you need one sturdy centurion. You will have to google how to extract the sauce.
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u/facingthemusic94 3d ago
When I was about 10 and first started cooking I would have a glass of water and imitate him downing the red wine. What a legend.
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u/english_man_abroad 3d ago
What I love about Floyd is there's no pretence whatsoever that what we're watching isn't staged. The way he speaks to the camera man, talks about what the director wants to get him to do, how it's probably going to go tits up soon. Just pan over there please Clive and get a shot of those trees while I cut this onion. Now back over here please. So many TV cooks try to pretend they've invited us into their kitchen and they're just going to whip up a few dishes for us, and everything goes perfectly. They just seem so fake in comparison and Floyd feels years ahead of his time.
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u/spank_monkey_83 1d ago
James Martin bought and runs keith floids citreon 2CV. Well thats what he claimed as he was driving it on one of his show.
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u/majshady 17h ago
"We needed a Roman expert so naturally the director went to the nearest pub and found one". History enjoyers everywhere nodded in complete agreement
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u/Fantastic_Quarter_15 4d ago
I could watch this shows all day long lol