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Post by trubble on Apr 5, 2010 8:43:43 GMT
(But it cannot be denied that Nigella has some extremely tasty ingredients.) nigella started off with the cooking when her husband and father of her kids was dying of cancer - well someone had to bring home the bacon didn't they? she always gives the impression that she genuinely likes food, cooks it, and eats it without throwing it up later. DeliSophie gives the impression that she would like to like food but still remembers being teased as the fat kid at school and being vilified as the fat model by the gutter press. Ms Dahl is barely an eater, let alone a cook. I think your posts on this subject are spot on, Betty. I watched less than ten minutes of Sophie sucking her fingers clean, I admit, and that was hardly hygenic, I thought -- but you've encapsulated my feeling on the minutes I was subjected to. Nigella had already had a successful career in both food and journalism, including several jobs as restaurant critic/food writer, long before she got her TV programme. She is amply qualified to offer us tips on cooking and eating for pleasure. Sophie is just trying out yet another career and it won't be the last. I can't take her seriously. |
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Post by trubble on Apr 5, 2010 8:46:04 GMT
but i may not bother to watch another episode or buy the cookbook. Is there a cookbook? I thought I heard her say on the radio that there wasn't one. Suspicious in itself. When one does arrive, my guess is that it will be more of a coffee table book, like Madonna's one, with lots of Sophie photos rather than any new recipes. |
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Post by revisedartlily on Apr 5, 2010 12:47:23 GMT
Talking of which, did anyone ever see "that" book of Madonnas? I haven't and I have never met anyone who did. I wonder what it was like.......  |
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Post by betty on Apr 5, 2010 14:15:24 GMT
Talking of which, did anyone ever see "that" book of Madonnas? I haven't and I have never met anyone who did. I wonder what it was like....... you mean the SEX one? yes i saw it. i wouldn't pay hard cash for it though! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2010 15:10:40 GMT
yeah i saw that ages ago, its nothink special, in fact probly by todays standards no big deal at all. Of course it was a big deal at the time Madonna put the book out, cos she is the qwueen of generating publicity for herself, and also in those days it was even unusual to see popstars dressed up like hookers whereas nowadays its the norm.
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Post by trubble on Apr 5, 2010 20:08:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2010 20:25:35 GMT
nice shoes.  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 5, 2010 21:10:29 GMT
I watched less than ten minutes of Sophie sucking her fingers clean  AH |
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Post by trubble on Apr 5, 2010 23:23:00 GMT
I watched less than ten minutes of Sophie sucking her fingers clean AH Well, precisely! I knew you'd be as shocked as I was at her manners. |
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Post by housesparrow on Apr 6, 2010 5:52:56 GMT
yeah i saw that ages ago, its nothink special, in fact probly by todays standards no big deal at all. Of course it was a big deal at the time Madonna put the book out, cos she is the qwueen of generating publicity for herself, and also in those days it was even unusual to see popstars dressed up like hookers whereas nowadays its the norm. So if popstars dress like hookers and star-struck girls dress like popstars, whatdo hookers have to wear to mke them look like hookers? (sorry for the thread diversion.) |
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Post by Weyland on Apr 6, 2010 8:39:56 GMT
Yep -- there's hair on it alright. Somebody should inform the food inspectors. |
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Post by revisedartlily on Apr 6, 2010 8:52:22 GMT
The book must have come out before all the Brazillian hooha. Madonna is - unbrazillianed. Good for her, it looks much nicer than that bald look, I reckon. I do a lot of life drawing and hardly any of the models have been waxed. The ones that DO wax take off the whole shebang, though.
Thankyou for the link, betty. I don't find it shocking, I think the photos are not terribly appealing though, something about them looks awkward.
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Post by everso on Apr 7, 2010 15:41:51 GMT
Oh, I started to watch this last night and almost immediately I was getting very very irritated. I noticed that she does the same thing as Nigella: lavish description. It's a proper take off.
Nah, give me Delia any day.
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Post by everso on Apr 7, 2010 15:44:23 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Apr 7, 2010 16:35:29 GMT
And why does she do that looking off camera thing? Who is she talking to? I noticed, too, that the bloke who hosts the Grow Your Own Drugs programme does the same thing. It's IRRITATING.  Talk to your audience, not some invisible person standing off camera. Too true. I expect she's looking for help from somebody who knows about cooking, standing in the wings. Probably Delia. Obama does a similarly annoying thing. He looks continually from side to side but never straight ahead. He also says "is is" a lot, which is becoming a widespread habit of epidemic proportions. |
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Post by everso on Apr 7, 2010 17:47:31 GMT
Funny, when I was younger I never noticed the minutiae of people's mannerisms but the older I get the more worked up I become about some things.
Grumpy old woman syndrome?
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 19, 2010 11:03:19 GMT
She's just made a big giant sponge cake with butter cream and a toffee apple crumble.  AH |
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