Delia’s How to Cheat at Cooking
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Oh, Delia. What have you done? We don’t want to see you opening up packs of ready-mashed potato and laying them on top of minced beef you got from a tin. You’re about frumpy food made properly, using recipes that work, regardless of our lack of culinary expertise. Tonight, though, you were one step away from piercing a film lid and cooking on defrost for six minutes.
There was something a bit sad about Delia’s How to Cheat at Cooking. The interview inserts made the whole show feel like a living obituary - a sentimental retrospective of a kitchen icon who hasn’t yet passed on. At the same time, though, she’s been reduced to eating out of cans and packets, all to the tune of a Jamie Oliver soundtrack that feels just a little bit too young for her.
So Delia, don’t let this be your last ever series. You’ve retired and come back before, so do it for us again. Give us another proper series after How to Cheat at Cooking, and this time go back to what you do best: posh school dinners for the nation.
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Whilst I do enjoy cooking, I can’t think of a reason why I’d choose to buy potatoes, peel them, then mash them when I can buy perfectly good mash in a little microwave pot in Tesco for about 75p.