Months later from now, I’ll probably be still telling people that I once did a cooking class with Claudia Winkleman.

Till now, there have been two kinds of reactions to this statement.

“Who is that?” ( accompanied by a strange facial contortion) “I like cooking, I like eating, but I really don’t watch these cookery shows”.

That was my boss.  Ofcourse, Claudia has done only one  cookery show, mostly she does the BBC, she does dancing shows, she does autographs, she is apparently huge in UK’s television industry. like a celebrity.

The cooking class got an idea when one of our friends walked in star strucked behaving like a general idiot, asking Claudia if he could take a picture with her, and just to  increase the odds that there would be a picture, he asked for a second one.

“Oh, I do television in UK, mostly rubbish,” she said, when we asked her who she was.  Rubbish could be her word. “Oh that because I cook everyday for my children, mostly rubbish”, she said, after she finished making the first dish 20 minutes before the rest of us.

Till I met her, I really didn’t know who this woman was. Actually I didn’t know who she really was – even her last name – even a day after I met her, till I thought I should probably wiki her. It’s no wonder no-one I know, knows anything about her.

But she was funny – like a good comic used her kids, husband and mother for material.

“It depends how you were raised, my mother wasn’t a great cook. I mean, cooking really wasn’t her thing. She would say, ‘you know Claude, just put it in the oven and hope for the best”

“His mother is a great cook, he must be depressed,” about her husband.

“My god, if I didn’t have kids I would shoot myself,” commenting on how noisy kids are around the pool and spoil romantic moments for other couples, who are probably on honeymoon.

The second reaction to my statement has ofcourse been – “YOU cook?” or “You COOK?” or even “YOU COOK?”. “Do you  NOT remember what happened?”

To clarify, I cooked meat. I took pork, beef and fish in my own pretty hands and arranged them in containers, seasoned them, garnished them, and later ate them.  I even have the recipes  for them.

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