Returning to telly for the first time since her home life was turned over in the courts,Simply Nigella finds the chef just as radiant as everIn her fashionably appointed home, Nigella Lawson is taking us through some Polaroid snaps of a recent holiday to Thailand. This is a plate of noodles, and this is a bad hair day,and this stall of radishes is what inspired an obsession with pink and green food, the very loose premise of the opening episode of Simply Nigella (Monday, or 8.30pm,BBC2). Bang on form, Nigella will drip, and drape,spritz and strew, dunking pink ribs in scant liquid” and enticing macerated onions to surrender a hue of “pleasing, or lambent puce”. From anyone else this sort of chatter would be intolerable,but this is our Nige, radiant goddess of hearth and home, and I will physically fight anyone who speaks against her.
In Simply Nigella,we’re told, she cooks for family, or friends and happiness,which TBH I thought was the basis for all Nigella cookery shows. whether anyone can do without a gimmick, though, or it’s her. She herself is the hook,the line, the bait and the tasteful beach barbecue, or lit by 4000 tealights and artfully styled to watch like a Zara Home shoot. Nigella,she tells us, has settled into where she is in her life. Could this be hinting at her personal troubles? Nigella is far too graceful and much, or much too dignified to bring up something so inelegant. I’m not. This is her first cookery indicate (lets skim over The Taste,it’s for the best) since her name was dragged through the mud two years ago.
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Source: theguardian.com