We are resolutely stuck in the Dog Days of January. It’s a Never-Never world where the television content is execrable, a crap factor that’s neatly matched by inane newspaper stories on everything from crash-of-the-day to disease-of-the-week.
Other bloggers have taken to their sites to express their fury at this. And while I don’t blame them, this time round I’m not joining the fray.
Why? Because a period of enforced recuperation has allowed me the luxury of reconnecting with A Great Love, one that almost became a career – food and cooking. These days it’s a love that has to satisfy itself with the eye candy of the Food Channel.
And while I wrote a column for “Cuisine” magazine last year lambasting the telly fashion for food-as-competition shows, in the spirit of accentuate-the-positive-delineate-the-negative that has heralded the start of 2012, here’s my choice of absolute faves that take pride of place on my MySky.
