My old friend Delia Smith (I used to do TV programmes with her yonks ago) has seen off her upstart rivals in the world of chefs and sold millions of copies of her new book "How to cheat at cooking" before it arrived on the bookshop shelves. Not only that but she has debunked organic as being too expensive for most and by saying "she doesn't do politics". She even concedes that intensively reared chickens have their place on the tables of working class people.
Good on yer Delia. Its the kind of common sense we have come to expect from you.
And isn't it gratifying that this down to earth woman of mature years will be gracing our TV screens with sensible ideas for family meals without flashing her eyes or her boobs, like NIgella Lawson; speaking in the Queens English, unlike Gordon Ramsey; and without trying to change the world like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver. And she'll be more popular than all of them, you see if she isn't.
And then she'll be able to afford to buy another striker or too for Norwich City.
Comments (2)
I think you will find that Delia is a fully paid up member of New Labour.
Posted by Michael Barker | February 21, 2008 1:33 PM
Posted on February 21, 2008 13:33
There is no place on any table for intensively reared chickens. It serves nobody's interest but those of the big supermarkets and the people who rear these animals in inhumane conditions. Not a popular comment, I'm sure, on a farming blog. The argument that battery chickens are an affordable option is hogwash. Eat less cheap chicken, more plant-based proteins (lentils, etc) and buy the humanely raised, wholesome free-range/organic less often if need be.
Posted by Deb | February 25, 2008 10:15 PM
Posted on February 25, 2008 22:15