Rohdri Marsden (a regular blogger on the Radio Times website) chose to write about our recent QVC appearance:
You tend to associate the QVC shopping channel with imitation diamonds, or space-saving plastic bags in which you can store your whole family and pop them neatly in the bottom drawer of the wardrobe when they’re not needed. But look, QVC can help you out if you’re hungry, too.
Kitchen demonstrations aren’t a new thing on the channel – umpteen gadgets and gizmos have been flogged over the years by lower-league celebrity chefs – but the idea of demonstrating the advantages of a three-kilo lump of air-dried ham (only £48.66 plus £5.95 postage and packing) is a new one on me. This hour was entirely devoted to Welsh food, and if it were a true reflection of the Welsh diet you’d be hard pushed to say whether they’d succumb to heart disease before scurvy, or the other way around.
There were cakes, followed by pies, followed by sausages, pies, cakes and sausages, with cake and sausages for a main course, lamb for a palate cleanser, and chocolate for pudding, with a plateful of cheese before bedtime to ensure a nightmare-filled slumber in which you found yourself in a never-ending challenge to retrieve a shoulder of pork from a lake of chocolate fondue.
All this produce was hoovered up enthusiastically by QVC regular Debbie Greenwood, encouraged by Angela Gray, a food columnist for the Western Mail. We didn’t hear too much from Debbie, who had probably skipped breakfast and lunch in order to really get stuck in to some honest Welsh tucker, and she mostly made noises along the lines of “mmmm”, “oooooh”, and “nggghhghhhh” while nodding slowly with her eyes shut. Essentially, it was an hour of watching two women ploughing through comfort food…..[Read More]
