Hints and tips:
...the Queen’s Christmas address on telly — a must in my household of cap-doffing immigrants....
...As for the food, if the canapé selection is supermarket or has been anywhere near the “meecro-wav-ay” as Nigella Lawson would say, then I’m out — it simply isn’t worth getting fat for....
...Us all waking up and finding it was just a bad dream (we’ve been isolating for a week — I’m watching too much daytime telly already)....
...She is not the kind of chef you see on the telly or hear on the radio or see on posters advertising food festivals on the Tube....
...We watch telly. Lots of it. If you’ve reading and writing all day what else can you do but slump happily before the 21st-century home’s true hearth? Also, it’s January, come on....
...My philosophy is a bit like Nigella Lawson’s. I want to enjoy my retirement and if there is something left at the end of the tunnel for my kids to enjoy then so be it....
...In contrast, our cheerful telly chefs are the everyman toilers in the culinary trench, prepared to get down and dirty, week in, week out....
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