A quick gripe: you would think that accuracy would be essential for a cookbook, but while surfing around Nigella’s site I came across the ‘Changes’ page buried somewhere, which lists some 20-odd mistakes in her various books. Some of them are guaranteed to ruin your creations: 3 tablespoons of yeast instead of 3 teaspoons for a pizza recipe, using half of a fruit mixture for a cake instead of the whole thing, 50g golden syrup instead of 150g syrup.
I really can’t understand how she didn’t doublecheck her recipes, and how the printing process can be so loose that so many mistakes could be introduced along the way. What’s worse is that Nigella also gave some half-baked advice about sterilising jars in microwaves and using clingfilm to line pans, and the site now retracts such statements because “it can be hazardous”. No shit sherlock.
Just goes to show that you can’t put all your trust in what cookbooks sometimes tell you, domestic goddess or not!
She was probably too busy flirting with the cameras to check the copy.
Ah well. Anyway, most people don’t really take Nigella that seriously for her food, do they?
Who cares – it’s Nigella – yum yum
Nigella is a lazy cook. It shows with her constant tossing of her utensils and spatulas around the picture perfect kitchen. Plus, all we see is a soft focus look of her face, hardly ever at the food and most of the time, just her eating or stuffing food in her face…so eh. No trust man, no trust in nigella.