When you hear TV chefs talking about how we should all ask more questions about where our food comes from and you think ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES, GOOD!’ and then they say ‘So this year, I am killing my own turkey for Christmas’ and you think ‘No, no, no, no, NO, THAT’S NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND…’
TV chefs have a tremendous amount of influence over what we eat. Remember that time Delia Smith made some kind of repellent-looking confection out of tinned fried onions? TINNED FRIED ONIONS. And they SOLD OUT. Across the country.
Nigella, it seems, is going pretty flexitarian. Not so much the LADS, LADS, LADS of TV cookery. Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall both advocate eating more game birds. They argue that it’s had a better life than caged poultry, and that their carcasses taste finger-wipin’ good.