All the Chef Robert Irvine stories may not be true....

Food Network Fan · 03-10-2008, 01:33 PM

Correction: Chef dismissed story

1 hour, 20 minutes ago

NEW YORK - In a March 3 story about celebrity chef Robert Irvine, The Associated Press, relying on a statement from the Food Network, reported erroneously that Irvine said he exaggerated details of his time cooking at the White House. Irvine says he did exaggerate details regarding his work for Britain's Royal Family, but not his White House service, according to the Food Network.

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cyberdoc · 03-10-2008, 02:06 PM

The plot thickens! It would be interesting to know exactly what Robert put on his resume.

cyberdoc · 03-10-2008, 02:47 PM

I just read something interesting in the forward of Robert's book where he freely states "I have never been to a formal culinary institute or cooking school." Yet he stands accused of putting Leeds on his resume. I'm begining to wonder about the accuracy of the St. Petersburg story. and what he actually embelished.

cyberdoc · 03-10-2008, 04:56 PM

Well, I just finished skimming throught Robert's book, and While he clearly does exagerate his experiences with the Royal Family, as he admits, he describes his involvement with the wedding cake as "inspecting, culling and cleaning billions of individual bits of dired fruit." Sounds like exactly the sort of thing that a junior cook at the Royal School of Cookery, would be tasked to do. This is hardly the massive exageration that I was expecting, and actually has the ring of truth to it. I am really beginig to wonder who is exagerating what.

Food Network Fan · 03-10-2008, 05:00 PM

I hope they can show it's not as bad as the press has been making it seem.

cyberdoc · 03-10-2008, 05:08 PM

I'm really begining to wonder if the press might not have embelished the embelishments, just a wee bit.

BerryBaby · 03-10-2008, 05:29 PM

From years of dealing with the media, I know they do embellish, enhance, call it what you will, stories to make them one, more interesting, and two, more controversial.

This whole thing just seems out of control regarding the story and the contents.

Robert has a great show, he does a great job and that is enough for me. He could have said he was the King of England and it wouldn't matter to me.

cyberdoc · 03-10-2008, 05:42 PM

I know they do, but having been a journalist back when it was still an honorable profession, it still irks me when they purposely over state the facts. Back when I was a young and bullet proof news writer, the facts were sacrosanct and you did not exagerate them to spice up the story. Now-a-days you just stand next to your red light and make it up as you go and call it journalism.

MayQueen · 03-10-2008, 06:49 PM

All that is saying is that Robert admits to lying about his royal service but he did not admit to lying about his White House service. AP isn't saying he did or didn't, just that he didn't admit it. However, Walter Scheib, the White House chef at the time has already explained exactly what Robert's duties were and he wasn't cooking for presidents. And as far as his claim about the royal wedding cake. He said that on an episode of DI. I heard it myself on the episode where he was working in a bakery.

joreymay · 03-13-2008, 03:11 AM

Any one else notice that this is the second time FN has had a problem with an ex-military chef and exagerated CV?