From TV cook to prime minister - Thailand's Samak

BANGKOK: Thai celebrity chef Samak Sundaravej is not going to let a little thing like being prime minister interfere with his true passion - cooking.

Moments after being voted in yesterday, the combative right-wing politician vowed to revive his weekly cooking show "Tasting, Grumbling", which went off the air this month after the outgoing army-appointed government took over its host station.

"We still have three months of our new cooking show on tape. The constitution does not prohibit a prime minister from doing TV shows," Samak told reporters at his favorite open-air food market in Bangkok.