As the indomitable Martha Stewart once declaimed, “There are no problems, just opportunities for excellence!” Now I have of late been in somewhat penurious circumstances, and must admit that I did, in fact, consider that a large problem indeed. Then it finally occurred to me that now would be the perfect time to shed that [...]

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oooooooh! There is a second season of Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen! Huzzah. Every night this week! Huzzah again! OK, it’s on BBC2 and I live in the U.S. but such trifles never stopped me before and they will not stop me now. OK, it is no more realistic than the last series. None of us really [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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