Nadia - stop moaning and get a job.....

[mids2019]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15628823/Nadiya-Hussain-attack-BBC-cancelled-difficult-conversations.html

I think this woman needs her to realise her star has fallen like a lot of minor celebs. She has had a good run and everything has did was tired. New cookery blood should be allowed a chance.

I thinks it's undignified to start accusing her erstwhile employers of racism.

Was she 'given' opportunities ... or did she earn them?

She must have put in hard work making documentaries and cookbooks; they didn't just magically fall into her lap. If we're going to applaud men for being 'trained chefs' then surely, we have to applaud her for working hard too?

Try reading her cook book to find out perhaps?

Published last year:

'Rooza: a journey through Islamic cuisine inspired by Ramadhan and Eid'

Slagging off the BBC - yet again, having done so last year - in the last few weeks has got her loads of press coverage at PRECISELY the time her new book was launched (and all the articles mention it).

Funny that.

But surely if it’s a cookery programme that provides recipes and step by step cooking instructions aimed at home cooks, as most are, there’s no point in having a restaurant chef as presenter? It’s an entirely different skill set, different techniques, ingredients, presentation etc. Nigel Slater for instance worked in restaurants before he started a career as a food writer, but it’s not anything he draws on in his writing or tv shows. Nigella Lawson has never worked as a chef, but she doesn’t need to have for her tv shows, which are aimed solely at domestic cooking.

I have a good friend whose restaurant has regularly won world awards, and he’s done tv, but he’s awful at it, despite being a brilliant and innovative cook.

Thought he started out as a waiter in a Michelin starred restaurant in France before moving to the UK and furthering his training his craft under various chefs before opening his own restaurant. You dont become a Michelin rated chef without being exposed to those environments and learning to cook on the hob at home.

The cynical might say "why not complain and call it out at the time" rather than wait until the BBC decided not to give her another series? It's not like she has no platform with which to do that.

She had a great run but ultimately it’s down to money/viewing figures. Presumably there was nothing to stop any other channel snapping her up. She was popular for a time and now she’s not. It was ever the way, particularly with reality stars.

I know! All pretty rubbish imo. And not very financially successful. Most of them were just massive chain style restaurants. Jamie’s Italian was dreadful.

Thats the significant difference between ok Jamie Oliver and a Michelin-starred chef. The latter can’t delegate to someone else, he/she has to do a substantial amount of the cooking themselves.

I do like some of his recipes though.

Nigella is replacing Prue Leith as a Bake Off judge

To compare Nadiya to Heston or Raymond Blanc is ludicrous, both men have run hugely acclaimed Michelin-starred restaurants.

Yep, the language is very telling, isn't it? 'Given opportunities' as if she is a beggar.

I agree!

"Doesn't conform to beauty standards" is absolute rubbish - of course she's attractive! Wearing a headscarf doesn't make one unattractive

Perhaps it's the straw that broke the camel's back?

She is yes, but I think she is judging somewhere else at the moment

Agree with your second point

Yeah that’s classic restaurant owner for you. With the exception of chains, each restaurant can be opened as a separate company. Then when it goes bust oweing huge amounts to creditors, they can walk away unscathed and simply open a new one. They’re all at it!

Not really, bringing it back to Greggg as soeone raised him earlier (not a chef), he was 'given opportunities', thats how his career would be described without a doubt. He was a grocer.

People that sort of fall into something, albeit they're very good at it, are given opportunities. They dont start out on a career path so its described differently

People are keen to see offense where none exists here.

I went to a Jamie's Italian and thought it was rubbish - and yet in Europe, where there is no shortage of quality Italian restaurants, the chain is thriving. Plus branches in the Middle East.

The man has carried on making money regardless of how often his restuarants go bust.

"The spelling of Naydia ... spell her name correctly."

Um, need I state the obvious? - Nadiya is the correct spelling

I loved her when she won bake off but she has never been a particularly good cook or baker compared to professionals. The cake she made for the Queens 90th was dreadful - wasn't that part of the appeal? That she was an 'everywoman' we could all relate to. But then we all got bored and everyone moved on....

DS asked me if gregg was a chef and when I told him he was a celebrity greengrocer I could see his mind boggling

i I remember Gregg on radio 4 with someone presenting a program on fruit and veg. He was a twat then

Again, why are you comparing her to the disgraced Gregg Wallace?

Came here to say this too - plenty of white men have long BBC careers and no-one is telling them their time is up. Although no-one is owed a TV career, there probably is sexism and racism at play in her case.

I agree with you, he’s great in his sphere and has loads of good, easy recipes. But I’m a foodie and I find it strange when people seem to lump JO together with high profile chefs like Gordon Ramsey and Marco Pierre White. But I appreciate that to some people food is food and chefs are all the same.

It's not about their skill, it's about the view here that she can't possibly expect any long term success because she is self-taught.

Well said.

He’s more a tv person than a high end chef. But I think that’s why he cut through initially. That more accessible take.