Posh telly chefs

It's always been ia bit of an oddity that television food programmes are dominated by posh people when restaurant kitchens are generally the domain of people from far less elevated backgrounds.

Years ago we had the appalling Fanny Craddock. Later came Keith Floyd. More lately we've had the boring Delia Smith and sloppy Nigela Lawson.

Last night came a plummy voiced and ridiculously named bloke called Valentine Warner, whose advice on seasonal cooking seemed neither particularly interesting nor very original.

My favourite character in lthe BBC2 programme was the Welsh gran who looked less than impressed as Val slapped all sorts of herbs and flavourings on a shoulder of lamb that surely needed no such help.