well, I hate to say we got there first - well, no, I don’t hate to say it. In fact, I’ll say it again. We got there first and we had a sense of humor about it.
The fab foodie blogged sometime ago about Nigella’s air of unreality and it seems that the Guardian is taking [...]

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I say niggles, but really I’m approaching a state of outright spatula-wielding huffiness.
It’s not just that she continues to wax on about how clumsy she is, and then drinks pea soup in the back of a moving vehicle, or that having given up on her son, she’s now trying to pimp out her hilariously disinterested [...]

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From October 8:
Nothing finishes off a Chinese food dinner like a fortune cookie. Unless, of course, the paper inside reads “It’s over your head now. Time to get some professional help.” And that’s just the type of message showing up in a new wave of fortune cookies. Speaking of over his head, - the Guardian [...]

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It has struck me of late, that I hadn’t been watching quite enough Cookery TV. So how better to make it up to myself, than to compare and contrast the latest in Reality Cookery shows, by which I mean the likes of Top Chef and Hell’s Kitchen UK, and the latest in Non-Reality Cookery [...]

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Personally, I blame Nigella and Jamie. It used to be that tv cookery shows fell into one of two camps; the Dull-Yet-Doable, as spear-headed by the dull-yet-educative Delia Smith; or the Wacky and Indulgent, as spear-headed by the Two Fat Ladies and the eternally soused Keith Floyd.
I always preferred the latter. Without wishing to toot [...]

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