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Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas
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There is little that is more Christmassy than the delightful Nigella Lawson and her mildly pervy cooking, but why was she in Amsterdam? This was what I wanted to know. Was she keen to turn a cookery show into a travel show, but only somewhere you could get by Eurostar? Or was there some other reason? Cheap weed? I don’t mean to be pernickety, but for a show called Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas this seemed a highly pertinent question. Call it a Christmas mystery.
Nigella Lawson in Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas
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“I first came half a lifetime ago, and I was entranced and still am,” she told us, doing her usual coy Princess Diana side-eye