][1]Word on the street, or at least the more food-obsessed corners of the Internet, has it that Anthony Bourdain of Kitchen Confidential fame and Nigella Lawson, of suggestive eating fame, are teaming up to present a reality cooking show for the American ABC network.
I like them both but it’s hard to imagine a more unlikely duo. Bourdain is the wise-cracking, ex-addict chef turned wise-cracking author and TV presenter while Nigella is the well-to-do daughter of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and the woman for whom the term yummy mummy was possibly coined.
I’m not going to say that it’s beauty and the beast all over again but it’s an odd combo.
The again perhaps not. According to a report in the Washingtonian, Tones and Nige have been good buds since back in the day. In fact, they aren’t so different.
The mag quotes Bourdain as saying, ‘I love Nigella, tearing off hunks of fatty pork. I was at dinner with Nigella and a bunch of guys, and we were all trying to out-macho each other, like “I’ve eaten a live cobra heart!” Nigella has been rubbing her lips and says, “When I was in Spain, they aborted a pig for me and roasted the fetus. Soooo good.”‘
Eeeuh, Nigella!