Nadiyas Backwelt

I mean she is a star. Is that enough? No it's not. Well she's better than the cooks they have on the Ametican shows. That's for sure.

Her enthusiasm is the basic ingredient of a show not only, not first about food, dishes, art of cooking but about flavors of life.

The joy to live, this is the precious gift of Nadya Hussain and the source of seduction of each episode. Sure, a reality TV. Special for a sort of fair familiarity , for advices and secrets and for the beautiful dosis of good feeling.

This is undoubtedly the best cooking show for me. Each episode captivated me, and I found myself thoroughly enjoying every moment. The host is truly on another level, elevating the entire experience with her charming personality. Her presence makes baking not just a culinary delight but a genuinely enjoyable journey. The way she effortlessly weaves motivation into her demonstrations is inspiring; even the laziest person on this earth-myself-felt a newfound enthusiasm. It's not just a cooking show; it's a delightful and uplifting culinary experience. Love love love love love love love love love.

Even though she was my hero in Bake Off and in many ways the Greatest Living Human I'd sort of avoided most of Nadiya's BBC output. She's been awkwardly crowbarred into the identikit chef model where in reality she's nothing of the sort. Therefore her often quite whacky recipes seem oddly out of place in the light and spacious model kitchen, cooking over the "Greatest Inoffensive TV Background Music Hits of the Early 00s". It all feels rather stiff and safe, when the great joy in watching Nadiya is her effusive joy and honest reactions.

In the defense of the production team there is a pandemic on - so the slightly awkward "cut to professional chef doing what amounts to a short promo vid" was likely meant to be a cooking guest spot and the (by the end of the series) forced "let's all get the crew to have some food finale" bits make the whole thing seem off-balanced. I mean - it's a cooking show with Nadiya, you get to see her bake stuff and grin happily, there's a camera in the oven which is quite cool. It does the job essentially.

What I sort of hope is that she gets even more of an identity - she's done "travelcook" shows before and they always work much better than this. There's another in the pipeline but... you know. Circumstances. The most important thing is that she's happy and baking on the Beeb - I still remember being overjoyed with happiness when she won Bake Off and her having this career at all is utterly magnificent.

Nadiya's joy is palpable while she's in her element. It's a pleasure to watch. During these tough times for the world, it's such a sunny, happy, soothing show to watch of someone whose passion and excitement is contagious. I'm not sure what the negative reviewer's expectation was; after all it's called "Nadiya Bakes," not "How to Bake." The recipes are available if your goal is to learn. Otherwise, I'm content watching this lovely expressive joyful person bake to her heart's content.