Plump and firm like a Thomas Hardy milkmaid. That's an oyster apparently.

[HonaloochieB]

"Paul, you are the..."

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Jeremy]

He looks like Carl Froch without the bulk (and that's not good).

Still, at least he's got one of those special Logic keyboards.

[Brendan]

Unless they are bigoted piss artists or uncouth Northerners or some other stereotypical demographic with intrinsic comedy value television chefs (like estate agents) should be banned from using simile and metaphor and only be given a limited dispensation to use some basic and necessary grammatical modifiers.

I don?t actually have a clue who you lot are on about but thought I would offer my tuppence worth.

This is about a television chef isn?t it?

[katie1997]

Me too Brendan.

[katie1997]

RosieH Wrote:

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> To be honest, I quite like the concept of weaving

> in some literature with the cooking - food has a

> great tradition in art in all its forms (and you

> only have to read Isabel Allende's Aphrodite to

> start salivating with gluttony / lust).

Sorry in advance for the unimaginative fisking - yes I am with you, I like that concept too. I haven't read that one so thanks for the tip.

> But for all her formerly Rubenesque ways, no

> sybarite she. You get no sense with Sophie Dahl

> that she'd like to roll around in her own

> chocolate cake (unlike Nigella) and she's had a

> complete charisma bypass from what I can tell -

> stop playing on your grand dad's name love and go

> and marry that funny wee jazz man.

Thats absolutely spot on! I wonder if she even tastes the food. Nigella on the other hand, would be very up for that!

[katie1997]

Loz Wrote:

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> katie1997 Wrote:

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> > I could swing for this woman.

>

> You mean in the 1970's wife-swapping sense?

haha Loz - v.funny but no.

I meant in the smack over the head with a frying pan sense. Tom & Jerry Style. Kind of.

[HonaloochieB]

Or in the straight in the 'boat' Vic & Bob style, but hurty, perhaps?

Though her face couldn't be made any flatter, I expect.

[SimonM]

I think her career peaked at the time I used to drive past her poster over the A4...