In fact, Nigella Bites, the program through which I first fell in soromance (sorority + romance = soromance, similar to a bromance, but for chicks) with Nigella Bites, was filmed in the kitchen of her actual home. She cooked in a casual way, tasting as she went. It made cooking seem... sensual and I couldn't run out and buy her book, "How To Be A Domestic Goddess," fast enough.
Now, she is joining the all-star celebrity judges panel of a new ABC program called, The Taste. If the naming concept seems familiar, a la The Voice, it's because the concept is similar. The judges have no idea who cooked the food or even what is in it. They just eat it and judge it purely on how it tastes.
The Taste premiered 8 p.m. last Tuesday, so naturally the promo billboards are out in full force - and so is my love for Lawson.
Lawson is a curvaceous kitchen goddess, complete with alabaster skin, raven hair, and bountiful busom. She also has the hips and tummy to go with such a physique. Through the liberal application of Photoshop, we are able to ignore this "horrible" reality, these "offensive flaws" most of the time.
The Brits, however, have been cracking down on this kind of thing, and Lawson is nothing if she's not British. She would not let ABC Photoshop-chop-shop alter her figure.
On her blog she writes:
"Although it was very thrilling to think of being up on a billboard in LA and around the States, I was very strict and English, and told them they weren't allowed to airbrush my tummy out. Wise? Hmmm. But that tum is the truth and is come by honestly, as my granny would have said."
Because a woman who spends her life making pasta with chunks of pancetta, homemade ice cream, and dense chocolate cake (named Refrigerator Cake because she literally stands in front of the open fridge carving off hunks and eating them with her fingers in the middle of the night) should have a tummy. As should most women. As do most women. And, like Lawson, we should wear them proudly and fill them with delicious food as often as possible.
Catch Lawson, her tummy, Anthony Bordain, Ludo Lefebvre, and Brian Malarkey on The Taste every Tuesday at 8 p.m. on your local ABC channel.
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