Garnishes Gone Bad
By PlumcakeI’ve never gotten the appeal of Nigella Lawson. I’ve caught her show a few times and it’s a-ight and when I worked in a bookstore in college I’d occasionally get a new box of cookbooks with Nigella on the cover with her in a tight shirt fellating or preparing to fellate some sort of moderately appetizing looking foodstuff. Once I caught her on a radio show where she declared Old Bay Seasoning to be the best thing about America, and although that is undeniably true and she shows excellent judgment in regional spice blends I just cannot give her a pass on this:
I get that this is a Lavender Trust party and that one tries to be thematic but honey, no.
You’re a chef and you are wearing a headwreath of ingredients and sure you’re pretty enough to just about carry it off, but this could be the beginning of an ugly trend and if you see Sandra Lee waltzing around in a bikini made of pre-cooked chicken tenders, you have no one but yourself to blame.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
It does have a certain Renaissance Festival flair about it, huh?
That said, I love Nigella. WOW does she enjoy her food. How to Eat was one of the first cookbooks I ever bought (along with The Naked Chef) and I read it straight through right away. Her recipes are really pretty simple and they’re very good and she tells a story with each one. I like that in a cookbook.
Plus, I think she’s very, very pretty. Pretty enough to forgive the lavender? Mmm…probably.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:30 am
I’m a closet Anglophone, and Nigella has been cool since she was nineteen and playing tennis in a sedan chair carried by heirs to posh titles at Oxford. She loses snob points for marrying a truly toxic chainsmoker, but otherwise she can do no wrong.
I can only conclude this garland is self-defense, and as such I am all for it.