For Mr. Hudson.
http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2010/04/best-cooking-show-ever
I understand the Nigella fetish, but I cannot get on board (or in my bunk) because I remember
her Dad, who managed to crush a nation's economy with a few well placed and massively ill-advised policy changes when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Secretary to you). I believe his brightest moment was when he flushed 10 beeeellion pounds of tax payers money down the drain, in just two days, trying to prop up the currency on the forex market. The traders saw what was happening, and just pounded sterling (get it?) until Pappa Lawson cried uncle.
I also remember fondly his effort to control the inflationary spiral he created. To avoid the economy getting overheated by people spending their hard-earned money, which they were keeping more of thanks to his tax cuts, he jacked up interest rates to 15%. As pretty much everyone who had a mortgage was on an adjustable rate deal (they didn't give out fixed rate mortgages to anyone back then), everyone's mortgage payment - including mine - tripled overnight. It cooled the economy all right, because everyone was flat broke and/or bankrupt and/or defaulting on their mortgages. It's just such amazing logic: "
You people are spending too much, so I'm going to take all of your money and give it to the banks. Not put it in an account in your name, no. Just give it to them, so it's not yours anymore."
I hope Nigella cooks food better than Nigel cooked the books. Yes, he named his daughter after himself.
