Pagoda Cooking

[gwuisman]

My wife drew my attention on the attached front page of a cooking book in an ad. In her opinion the mirror indicated that the lady was sitting in a pagoda. Indeed this must be a 230sl. I don't know if the lady in the picture is the writer herself but she is UK and famous. The front page is a translation in Dutch and reads: Forever Summer.

Gerard Wuisman
1970 280sl

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[rwaw]

Never thought it possible to link Pagodas with cooking but it just shows how eclectic this forum is turning out to be !
See attached link.
http://http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0701173815/202-2948061-9980636

Raoul, Euro 280SL RHD

[hauser]

FYI Mercedes-Benz put out their own picnic book.

1969 280sl 5 spd        1999 ML320          Gainesville,Fl.

[gwuisman]

Hauser,

Is it possible to be more specific about the picnic book?

Gerard Wuisman

[Malc]

Yes that's Nigella Lawson, daughter of an ex cabinet minister under Maggie Thatcher, who was responsible for "black Monday" with the UK pound colapsing in the ERM etc. Daddy and her are Loaded

She is most famous for her "suggestive" cooking[:p] especially when she licks spoons and spreads cream

Also many TV comedy programs such as Dead Ringers send her up something rotten

Malc

[hauser]

quote:Originally posted by gwuisman

Hauser,

Is it possible to be more specific about the picnic book?

Gerard Wuisman

The book is titled "Picnics"

"Over 40 Recepies For Dining In The Great Outdoors From Mercedes-Benz"

Gerard, I will post pics of this bok for you.

1969 280sl 5 spd        1999 ML320          Gainesville,Fl.

[gwuisman]

Malc,

I don't understand the expression 'Daddy and her are Loaded'. Can you explain this?
 
My wife told me that Nigella (nice name for a daughter who's father's firstname is Nigel, I remember him as cabinets minister) recently read an interview with her in a Dutch newspaper. She decribed her 'suggestive' cooking as 'kitchen porno'. She is still a very beautifull and strong woman. Her husband and some other direct relatives died because of cancer. That made her concentrate on cooking. It seems that she is more popular than Jamy Oliver (called: the naked chief because of his pure recepies), also a UK cooking crack.

Nice to experience that a pagoda thread initiates a discussion with my wife about cooking and I can share the information with the group.!

Hauser,

I am looking forward for the pics.

Gerard Wuisman,
1970 280sl.

[Malc]

quote:Originally posted by gwuisman

Malc,

I don't understand the expression 'Daddy and her are Loaded'. Can you explain this?
 

Sorry I used a term which might not be understood
"Loaded" is a slang term for having lots and lots of money. In addition it can mean that you have the right connections. IE you know somebody who knows somebody who can get you on the TV, Your related to somebody famous, in the public eye etc
To be honest Nigella is a bit of a "babe",  I suspect you may know what that means. However she has "dissappeared" from public view in the last year or so. Why? I don't know

Meanwhile I am just waiting for somebody to call from the BBC to start filming that new hit TV program...
One man and his Pagoda
or maybe that should be scrapheap challenge!
and for the folks in the US
Junkyard challenge
(Interestingly both the UK and the US versions of that program (Channel 4) are filmed in the UK)
Cheers
Malc

[hauser]

HBO was doing somethig called "Shock TV"  These were programs from around the world and as the title suggests some of it was pretty shocking.  I think I rember somethig about a risque cooking show in the U.K.



1969 280sl 5 spd        1999 ML320          Gainesville,Fl.

[Douglas]

Nigella Lawson has nothing at all to do with shock TV. She's a very mainstream television personality, author and chef. As I recall, she recently married one of the Saachis.

Douglas Kim
New York, NY
280 SL #016220

[k]

Hey for more shocking; the Saatchi's were actually a prominent Iraqi family; as were a Jordache jeans founder, and a whole host of other mainstream names.  Everything comes full circle.

[hauser]

Some of my passions are cooking and of course Mercedes.  This book seemed like a perfect combination.  We let Luigi make this presentation

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1969 280sl 5 spd        1999 ML320          Gainesville,Fl.

[tobacco]

Nowadays, Nigella writes a weekly food column (called "At My Table") for Wednesday's New York Times.


Bill Greffin
Chicago
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[gwuisman]

Sorry for the US an UK members but there is a war coming up between your countries. I found the web site of Nigella. It is indeed Nigella Lawson that sits in the pagoda.  

On the forum I put a question about the pagoda on the front page. In stead of getting an answer some US an UK cooking ladies started arguing which front page is nicer: that of the US or that of the UK book. It is all about tomatoos. When they start to throw with them the war has begun. Look:http://www.nigella.com

Gerard Wuisman
1970 280sl