Nigella Lawson

Then there is the show hosted by Nigella Lawson. I missed quite a few episodes of one of her earlier shows because its name “Nigella Express” sounded as if it was about traveling. And that’s surprising because I love the channel’s travel shows like “Globe Trekker” with equal fervor.

If watching dishes cooked with ingredients like cheese, chocolate, sugar and cream could add calories by now I would have been as heavy as that Mexican man who had to be lifted with cranes. Initially I was shocked at Nigella’s heavy use of these ingredients in her cooking but now I rather enjoy watching the show because that doesn’t add an ounce to my weight. I didn’t bat an eyelid when she prepared a dessert using – hold your breath – cocoa, chocolate chips, chocolate sauce, castor sugar and heavy cream :-) She makes equally liberal use of cheese in her cooking. So this show is not for the faint-hearted.

This is the only chef I have seen so far who is rather on a heavy side herself as far as the weighing scale goes. And so I was amused when I came across an article which described the show as “gastro-porn” with a chef who has a “great figure”.

Oh, and at the end of every episode you will invariably see her raiding her fridge in the dead of the night to snack on her creations. Calories and flab – go take a hike!