Whites

- Season 1

(2010)

Executive chef, Roland White runs a restaurant kitchen while narrating his book. He hires an ambitious apprentice chef to help his beleaguered head chef.

Bib worships the young television celebrity chef Shay Marshall. Roland thinks he stinks. However when restaurant manager Caroline insists Roland update his monotonous menus and lazy Roland delegates this to Bib, a visit by Shay, who gives Bib a copy of his new cook-book, results in some very exotic dishes on the menu. But not for long. Having explained to Bib that Shay was once his apprentice who stabbed him in the back and stole his staff Roland ensures that Shay ends up with food poisoning - due, of course, to the new bill of fare.

Skoose is only too pleased to be put in charge when Roland does his outdoor demonstration of Thai cookery, impressing glamorous promoter Alison Harris in the process, and then drives Bib to the fertility clinic. In the evening he treats Alison to dinner and all is going well until he notices that she only has one arm.

The health inspector is due but Roland tells Bib not to worry as he can always be bribed with a bottle of wine. Sadly for Roland, a different inspector calls, Ms. Critch, who takes a dim view of bribes and is not pleased with the state of the kitchen's hygiene. Roland sees the chance to soften her up by claiming to have a brother with Parkinson's Disease, which involves Bib playing along. Hopefully Caroline won't blow it and tell Ms. Critch the truth.

Roland annoys Bib yet again when he swans off to do a television cookery show, taking Skoose as his assistant, and leaving Bib to organize a large outdoor buffet. However, whilst Roland's television appearance is a disaster Bib seriously impresses visiting Australian restaurateur Darryl Somers, who invites him to be his chef at his new venue in Sydney. Bib accepts and tells Skoose he can be the new sous-chef after all.

Bib has officially left and Roland is missing him already as chaos reigns in the kitchen. Interviews for a replacement drag though, one Beatrice seems the best - and prettiest - of a bad bunch. Even so, Roland is not happy as Celia hosts the evening's talent contest and nor are Caroline, feeling dumped as her vet boy-friend has just rushed off to see to a prize sow or Skoose, rejected for the sous-chef job. And then somebody reappears to make it all better.