The question is : is she a real goddess or just the closest we can ever get to one? Should we be splitting hairs ? Who can say for sure?

After all,. could we possibly conceive of a goddess who wasn’t a media star, internationally recognized and prepared to travel across the Atlantic for a Roast Chicken and Tuscan Bread Salad ?

Isn’t it pure goddess that the apparition known as Nigella is supposed (yes,in reality) to be actually THIN – while also being THE ‘curvy’ inspiration to all larger women/cooks who adore her unashamedly fattening recipes, along with her divinely provocative licking of the chocolatey finger ?

a goddess residing on amazon.co.uk

How else does she keep the feminists at bay (by not ‘objectifying the woman as a passive vehicle within male ideology’ etc) but also inspire women and families across the board as a throwback to old-fashioned housewifery ? Didn’t the late Lord Lichfield take her photograph ? Isn’t she also a brand synonymous with earthy and sensual kitchen–ware, the tilted oval bowl of oysters and fresh seafood for example ?

Finally, who but a goddess could be appearing simultaneously, in the Autumn,
in her own series on the Food Network in the USA and on BBC 4 in one of her earlier incarnations ? We refer, of course, to the BBC’s ‘Secret Life of Mrs Beeton’, a lifelong devotee of mutton dressed as mutton. How Mrs B has moved on and improved !