{"id":138339,"date":"2023-07-15T21:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-nigella-dinner-parties-are-great-deliveroo-just-doesnt-cut-it-rachel-cooke\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T14:48:44","slug":"no-nigella-dinner-parties-are-great-deliveroo-just-doesnt-cut-it-rachel-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/no-nigella-dinner-parties-are-great-deliveroo-just-doesnt-cut-it-rachel-cooke\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Nigella \u2013 dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn\u2019t cut it | Rachel Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHaving friends over to eat is part of who we are, with set-piece encounters feeding into plays, films and books. Talk of their demise is prematureI know. The dinner party is always over, or about to be so. In my long(ish) life, the announcement of its passing has been made several times, and on each occasion it has somehow risen from its bed like Lazarus, and tottered once more into the kitchen, wooden spoon in hand.Still, I\u2019m minded now to regard the situation as extremely serious: the patient, it would seem, really is in intensive care, and may not live to see another lasagne, nor even a small bowl of olives. Nigella Lawson, who is effectively the Mother of the Nation these days, says she\u2019s out of the habit of throwing them \u2013 and if she is, so must we be. For where Nigella treads, we follow, breathing deeply the better to pick up the heady scent of cardamom. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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