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.

I think most bake off winners don't end up with the success she had had, so she's done pretty well out of it , the market is saturated now in a way it wasn't when Mary berry came up

Perhaps not, but her name would get that book selling. I would be interested in that book, I buy huge numbers of cook books of cultural cuisines, particularly ME but not restricted to that, Im interested in food full stop

Last night I was watching, might have been masterchef cant remember, and learned about Haleem, another new dish I want to try, never heard of it, people like me would be interested in different things (to me) and learning about it and the techniques. But I dont think there are many Western people who would, hence her target market is going to be a bit smaller.

We have a terrible food culture in this country which doesnt lend itself to exploration and curiosity. A PP made light or made fun of her putting different flavours together, which is literally how dishes come to be invented and created. Its what a good chef/cook does.

Instagram is a way better medium than TV for cooking demos.

This exactly.

I liked her show and the food of hers I’ve cooked has always gone down really well. I did find her presence on screen a bit lacking at the start but I think as she’s gotten used to it she’s really improved. I imagine she probably has faced some hurdles that she wouldn’t if she was white and Christian/atheist.

And to add, I don't buy recipe books because often there are few of the recipes I would actually try. I have in the past bought them, and that was my experience. I tend to Google now, so might do ' easy chicken recipes' for example. I can look through loads of suggestions without buying a book that might be used once. I would say in general cookery books are no longer popular. Or maybe thats just me!

You know North America is a continent that includes Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica etc etc....

And even if you were just referring to the USA, it has a rich and varied culinary history with many distinct regional cuisines. It's not all bloody junk food.

The chefs you've nominated have established restaurants, food and crockery/saucepan lines (ie have a whole machine behind them), who trained for years, not winners of a reality TV programme

Maybe her viewing figures were not that great and may have been dropping for some time.

She could pitch her shows to other channels. She is not tied to the BBC.

Maybe she should take a leaf out of Madhur Jaffray’s textbook. Mathura had some good Indian cuisine textbooks, did TV, travel writing etc.

They were both trained chefs working at a high level within the industry before they were on TV. They didn't just win a TV baking competition. It's fairer to compare Nadiya to other competition winners, tbh I can't even name any other bake off winners! Tomasina Meiers is always the MasterChef success I remember, but she didn't really do TV, she did found Wahaca

Probably the wisest comment here.

I have a few Ramadan/Islamic cookbooks, but I think you're right, perhaps not for the wider audience, as they often have religious practices in mind.
I like global food, so to speak, that's why I enjoy Saturday Kitchen, because they have quite a mix of guest chefs from different cultures and types of cuisine. They have an Iranian chef on there sometimes, and I like her work.
I think Nadiyah has health problems and all the issues referred to can't help. I genuinely hope she finds a good fit.

Erm, she has got a job, she is a teaching assistant.

I think the BBC and other companies have been trying very hard to be inclusive. (And there have been plenty of people complaining about the obviously unrealistic representations of diversity in adverts and dramas.) Nadia has had a good run after her Bake Off success and maybe now it's time for something new. There must be hundreds of talented cooks out there who'd love a chance to be on TV.

Not really comparable. There are loads of Italian restaurants in the UK and loads of people eat pasta or pizza every week.

Few people search out food that is specifically aimed at Muslims, apart from Muslims. If the book didn't sell well it was because it didn't have enough appeal (marketing mistake).

Or maybe Nadiya's recipes weren't ones enough people wanted to make at home, including Muslims.

What scandals have there been for TV chefs?

No, she had to leave for health reasons.

There is absolutely nothing to suggest this is sexism or racism. Her attitude stinks. I'm fed up of her when I liked her to start with

Nadiya was very lucky to have the career she did. The only other bake off contestant I can think of who is still on TV is Liam.

No she has given that job up after a few weeks.

I’d have had a lot more respect for someone who had relaunched herself in to an even better career than someone whinging that one handed to her on the back of winning a competition had come to an end.

The traditional TV cookery show is disappearing. Yes, there's a few of the longer lasting 'big dogs' with long careers in hospitality around, but you hardly get any new shows. And there's not as many of the traditional stand around chatting and cooking shows, used to be the schedules were full of them. The only new kid on the block I can think of is Big Zuu and until recently his shows were on slightly more niche channels.

I think not only have broadcasters cut them because they cost more, but viewers aren't as interested in them, they are old fashioned. All the new, modern chefs and bakers who might have had shows in the past are on insta and tick-tock.

I'm not sure Nadiya would get a show at all if she won today. I don't think I ever watched a Nadiya show, but I haven't watched any cookery shows lately, not even Mary Berry when she did her Christmas stuff and definitely not Jamie Oliver. Used to be everyone watched them.

I can't say whether the BBC were racist or Nadiya's career came to a natural end. Maybe it's a little from column A and a little from column B.

In other posters defence I would say that autocorrect is VERY determined to spell her name 'wrong'.