Fishing with Gordon

Gordon Ramsay reaches into the creel, and pulls out a wild-caught, dayboat harvested red herring:

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should be fined if they serve out-of-season fruit and vegetables.

"I don't want to see asparagus in the middle of December. I don't want to see strawberries from Kenya in the middle of March. I want to see it home-grown," he said after raising his concerns with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

"Fruit and veg should be seasonal. Chefs should be fined if they don't have ingredients in season on their menu," he told the BBC on Friday.

   

Just on its own, it is a weird mixture of a level of government interventionism only a Canadian could love, and a peculiarly aggro righeousness -- like Alice Waters after a couple of bellinis spiked with Red Bull and HGH. But consider the source. With the restaurant empire faltering, and even Australian Catholics ready to scrub your mouth with soap, what better time to jump on the sustainable bandwagon?