Nigella stirs pot over food snobbery
FOODIES have full permission to use chicken stock cubes, according to Nigella Lawson.
The Domestic Goddess admits to using the instant stuff when she doesn’t have time to make stock from scratch.
“I hate food snobbery, it almost makes me want to just eat plastic bread and plastic cheese when people start being so purist and looking down at people,” she said.
“Food is used too often as a status symbol. It’s the idea that people feel, ‘I’m better than you because I do this thing to my food and you don’t’.”
Lawson, 58, sees herself as a journalist who writes cookbooks, but she has embraced social media.
“I do quite like the fact that it’s a very direct way of communicating,” she said. “I enjoy seeing what other people eat.”
But she doesn’t believe it’s an accurate portrayal of how we eat. “There are certain things that do well on Instagram, which probably look better than they taste and certain things take a back seat because they don’t photograph so well,” she said.
Lawson visited Australia to film MasterChef in Melbourne, but she is having a love affair with Sydney, nominating Bondi’s Icebergs as her favourite restaurant in the world