FOOD SHOW ADDICTION!!

Nigella's home as brilliant as her food!!

Think there is a new category of addiction in the psychiatrist's book - FSA or FOOD SHOW ADDICTION. I for one am a self confessed food show addict (no prizes for guessingJ). I absolutely love watching cooking shows on TV. Travel comes a close second as the moment there is Nigella, David Rocco, Rachel Allen, Rude boy, Donna Hay or Master Chef Australia (and only MC Australia!!)Calling, I forget everything. There can be the most difficult recipe on offer but just for the fact that its sheer art on plate I would be delighted just to see it happen. I think there is a huge something about cooking and food that tingles the reward centre in our brains so brilliantly that we tend to forget most of the idiots we bummed into through the day.

Therefore my attempt at exploring the reason that makes food shows so addictive. I think, food shows are not any more about food alone. They have a promise of sorts. A promise to make you look like someone with great culinary skills (without really having them) by combining some basic yet clean ingredients and cooking up a great HS (high society) dish. Better still these shows have a promise of having a kitchen, read lifestyle that would ensure you cook those many designer dishes in those designer kitchens and homes. 

Donna Hay's fast, fresh, simple!



 Donna Hay’s obsession with ‘white’ from the cutting board she uses to the kitchen oven and the show set that has sand and gushing sea as backdrop transcends you straight to that beautiful home of hers. You want to see her cook not just because of all the simple yummy recipes but more so for the cooking she would do on that beautiful griddle on her balcony with the noise of waves and the breeze in her hair. Her cutlery is so enviable that you would eat plain celery out of it and NOT complain J

Then there is the ever so favorite Nigella Lawson, the queen of excesses. Her beautiful English home just makes me long for a place exactly like hers. With books of all kinds stacked rustically yet all over the place, Nigella’s kitchen can be forgotten for a while (i.e. until I explore her entire house). Another thing that I will give an arm and a leg for is her pantry..! It is so quaint, almost like a hobbit’s den that has almost everything to rescue someone who is pressed under a hard day. Nigella’s trick to cook is simple… EXPRESS WAY. So although the real time cooking isn’t really that fast (have tried) I want to see her cook something that I may have half a chance at when I return to my kitchen from a long stressful drive back home!  The fairy lights in her kitchen take me back to the word ‘celebration’. That cozy corner cooks up lamb shanks and ice-cream cakes with the same zest. Her special edition of Nigella Christmas was exceptional. It really made my desire to see a white Christmas even stronger. The real Christmas tree with Nigella’s cheat’s Christmas pudding threw a cinnamon smoke cloud and I fell in love with food show once again. 

So you see it is not just about the food but also about the lifestyle that promises a lot. After all, who wouldn’t want to have a house with a fantastic back garden that not only houses all the fresh food ingredients but also a real wood oven? To top it all, the dream is complete with the promise of doing nothing but gardening and cooking food that is absolutely beautiful!! What say Jamie Oliver?