{"id":824,"date":"2018-06-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kemp.mysites.io\/?p=824"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:11:59","slug":"richard-kemp-favourite-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kempandkempcatering.co.uk\/richard-kemp-favourite-food\/","title":{"rendered":"BEHIND THE SCENES | WHAT DO WEDDING CATERERS LIKE TO EAT? – RICHARD\u2019S STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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My favourite foods are as varied as my tastes in music.. everything from Led Zeppelin to Ludwig Van Beethoven.<\/p>

Of course my\u00a0favourite<\/strong>\u00a0foods are always those that\u00a0Karen<\/a>\u00a0makes us.<\/p>

My all-time fave (and the thing I choose in most restaurants) is a\u00a0burger.<\/strong>\u00a0It all comes from Karen\u2019s home-made burgers \u2013 which are of course the gold standard (even her mini burgers!). Back in 2010 we took a trip to Florida where she ground the beef, added the herbs (naturally) and we cooked them poolside on a BBQ. This completely spoilt me and I\u2019ve been looking to replicate the experience ever since in restaurants around the world \u2013 almost always to disappointment. It just seems that people over-cook, over-rusk and under-season.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The closest to Karen\u2019s burgers were Tom Barton\u2019s at his\u00a0Honest Burgers<\/a>\u00a0restaurant. In 2016 we catered Tom\u2019s wedding in Leicestershire and he treated us to his burgers with rosemary fries when I was celebrating my 60th in London (on route to eat at the top of the Eifel Tower).<\/p>

Now that was also a meal \u2013 again beef-based, but with\u00a0THE<\/strong>\u00a0most amazing reduction any mouth could experience \u2013 that and heavenly texture of the beef was the stuff of dreams.<\/p>

Which leads me to comment that Karen has changed my life in so many ways (since we met in 2005), but none more so than her introducing me to a wider context how to treat really amazing food. Since meeting her I\u2019ve learned to value it \u2013 and ironically that\u2019s so much more than eating it and extends into the visual; the need to create the right ambience (pretty much every night we have a candlelit dinner, with great wine and soft music); and indeed to add some \u2018ceremony\u2019 to the eating.<\/p>

The flavours, appearance and variety of foods made by Karen (compared to the rest of my life) are astounding. She makes (for example) a baked potato sing and dance so you want to hug it, never mind eat it \u2013 and I\u2019ve really no idea what it is she does to turn such humble things into such works of gastronomic joy\u2026 her cheese on toast is just something else.<\/p>

All the above are why I suggested all those years ago (2010) we got into wedding catering. I knew her food would astound people and we\u2019d had so many poor eating eating experiences at weddings that I also knew we could really do something very special.<\/p>

Now,\u00a0235 weddings<\/strong>\u00a0on and\u00a05 years<\/strong>\u00a0as \u2018Wedding Caterer of The Year\u2019 for The West Midlands, she is still being as creative, passionate and inventive as ever, never loosing a single detail and rocking my gastronomic world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favourite foods are as varied as my tastes in music.. everything from Led Zeppelin to Ludwig Van Beethoven. Of course my\u00a0favourite\u00a0foods are always those that\u00a0Karen\u00a0makes us. 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