when food meets porn

oh, n i g e l l a ....

picture: John Kennedy / Splash

miss nigella has [already] come out with a new show which i am looking forward to watching. i do not get our food channel but i will find my way on how to get to see her show. in the meantime, here is the information about her show [albeit i am a little ... ok, a lot ... late with the news].

excerpted from:

Siri Agrell, The National Post [Weekend Post]
published: Saturday, September 30, 2006

The queen of gastroporn strikes again
Even guys with no interest in cooking love Nigella

[...]

The archetype of cooking instructor as controlling mother has all but disappeared, replaced by Nigella Lawson and the new school of gastroporn served up by the Food Network.

Lawson's new show, Nigella Feasts, debuts on Monday, the third of her series to air on the network (following Nigella Bites and Forever Summer).

Like the previous incarnations -- each of which was released with a cookbook -- the half-hour Feasts employs language and camera work more suitable for soft-core than meat and veg.

"Lovely and hot," "perfectly soft," "gorgeous and smooth," "flaked and luscious," is how Lawson describes, respectively, chili flakes, onions, cream and cardamon. [...]

"Food is definitely sensual. It's the pleasure of the flesh," Lawson said during a visit to Toronto yesterday. "But that has to do with the food and not the person who's cooking it."

She rejects the notion that she herself is part of the network's sexualization of cuisine, saying it has much more to do with editing. In fact, when she first heard people describe her show in erotic terms, she claims to have become self-conscious and more restrained in her delivery.

how could you think her not hot? She is intelligent, well-spoken and beautiful and lets molten chocolate drip down the sides of her mouth — just what the industry and its viewers are looking for.

in confessions of a cardamom addict, fellow blogger Jasmine went to meet her at a recent book signing in toronto and got her picture taken with the gorgeous nigella.

if it interests you, here is nigella's website — simply called nigella.com.