The Queen of Cookbooks Should Keep Out of Politics
Evening Standard - London › February 18, 2008
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AS SOMEONE who spent her twenties gaily flipping ready meals into the microwave, I can't help feeling that I got into cooking at precisely the wrong time. These days, the kitchen isn't so much a place to coddle eggs as a platform for debating said eggs' provenance, at great length, until you are so worn out by the battery/free range/organic debate that you can barely muster enthusiasm to raise a spatula.
Why couldn't my interest have been kindled during the reign of the redoubtable Fanny Cradock, instead of the tedious Delia Smith? We all know that cooking is the new politics, but did Delia really need to step into the breach? If I wanted a lecture on organic- versus-battery chicken, I'd go to Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall.See the full content of this document
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The Queen of Cookbooks Should Keep Out of Politics
But Delia has always been the no-nonsense one which is why it is so upsetting that she is talking su...
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