I've been meaning to write this for some years. Now with news that his very fancy and expensive looking Sydney restaurant Jade Temple, which I happened to walk past on a brief visit to Sydney last August, is closing, I am inspired to say it.
Neil Perry has become boring.
Not that I've eaten at any establishment that has anything to do with him. It's just from my reading his recipes.
It seems that he has had the recipe page in Fairfax's Good Weekend for many years, even decades?, and it has occurred to me, in the last couple of years, that his recipes just never sound interesting anymore. I used to find them interesting and enticing, even though I can't remember if I ever closely followed one. These days, a lot of them seem too simple to me, or contain an oddball ingredient that I would have to go searching for in some special shop. I no longer ever read one and think "that sounds nice, I'd like to give that a go."
He might be a nice guy in real life - I wouldn't know. I do know he has a terribly dull TV presence - he was on that disastrously short lived instant restaurant show on Channel 7 in 2015. But I am really not sure how he manages to still be considered a success.
I wonder whether I'm on my own in this feeling about him...
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