{"id":14477,"date":"2014-04-12T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2014-04-12T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T23:34:09","slug":"chris-mcgowan-clinched-victory-in-the-northern-ireland-final-on-the-great-british-menu-2014-with-his-rice-pudding-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/14477\/chris-mcgowan-clinched-victory-in-the-northern-ireland-final-on-the-great-british-menu-2014-with-his-rice-pudding-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris McGowan clinched victory in the Northern Ireland final on the Great British Menu 2014 with his Rice Pudding Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris fought off strong competition from chef Raymond McArdle for the opportunity to cook on the 70th anniversary of D-Day at a banquet in London\u2019s magnificent St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral to honour the World War II veterans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chris.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chris.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"chris mcgowan\" width=\"570\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chris.png 570w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chris-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris trained under Pierre Koffmann and Gary Rhodes before working with Great British Menu veteran Richard Corrigan. Chris was also head chef at Richard\u2019s Lindsay House before moving on to Corrigan\u2019s Mayfair.<\/p>\n<p>The two chefs had to cook one again the dishes they served up during the week for two Michelin star chef Tom Kerridge, but this time it was Matthew Fort, Oliver Peyton &#038; Prue Leith who judged the dishes along with Celia Sandys, the granddaughter of Winston Churchill,  to see which dishes best evoke the war time spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Chris\u2019s outstanding dish of the day and perhaps the dish that clinched victory for him was his coconut sponge with rice pudding ice cream dessert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ricepudding-icream.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ricepudding-icream.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"rice pudding ice cream\" width=\"570\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14479\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ricepudding-icream.png 570w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ricepudding-icream-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* food and drink *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3648486817\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris fought off strong competition from chef Raymond McArdle for the opportunity to cook on the 70th anniversary of D-Day at a banquet \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/14477\/chris-mcgowan-clinched-victory-in-the-northern-ireland-final-on-the-great-british-menu-2014-with-his-rice-pudding-ice-cream\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-14477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-british-menu","tag-great-british-menu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ricepudding-icream.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14482,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14477\/revisions\/14482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}