Nigella's different Christmas

Okay so this is just a bit of fun, really. But take a look at the cultural difference between Europe and America. For the European market the photograph on the cover of Nigella's Christmas (a wonderful book, by the way) is of Nigella holding a plate of delicious looking roast potatoes. She exudes all kinds of goodness (as she always does) and the potatoes are there to hark back to family dinners, togetherness, domestic warmth, etc.


















Now the American market appears to be far less interested in domestic warmth. They seem to be interested in things that are sweet and fattening (no surprise there, then). Or, to be fair, that's what the publisher seems to think.


Seeing how I'm a graphic designer and spend more than a little time photoshopping, I can barely stand to look at this. I mean I sort of get why they did it, but why did they do it so badly? Those cookies are crazy big! Totally out of proportion, also the focus doesn't match the rest of the picture and don't even look at the area around her fingers. Photoshop is a program that's all about finesse. They didn't use any of that here... In fact it looks like they used scissors. Dull ones.
Funny though.