But she, and most of her fellow TV chefs, represent a strand of life – comfortable, bourgeois, self-satisfied – that I find just a little depressing.
Yet travel is merely one strand of life, and while frequent flyers like myself may feel the brunt more than most, one can argue that it isn't the most important or pressing issue within this whole argument.
At their best, these career-centric films serve as a prism that unpacks many strands of life — love and money, ideals and ambitions, friendship and power, fantasies and frustrations, worldly engagement and self-examination.
And here they are, on one street corner, the three great strands of life — Defenselessness, Cluelessness and Helplessness — and now the innocent children are on the bus, it swings out into traffic: Oh God, no seat belts!! Have mercy.
He is recently divorced from Jane Garvey, the Radio 4 Woman's Hour presenter, but collects their two daughters, 10 and seven, from school every day, and has the shattered air of a new divorcee struggling to hold together several different strands of life.
TB has affected every strand of my life "TB has affected every strand of my life," says Bradley, who has remained with his partner of 25 years.
To highlight one aspect of a correspondence is distorting: it isolates one strand of a life that was more varied, emotionally and intellectually, than most.
An attic full of items contained a secret history of a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century.
"We were really concerned that he would be remembered only for his work on gun safety, and that was just one strand of his life," Eric Redman, his former brother-in-law, said.
In the video, Obama touted the importance of the city in his life, saying "all the strands of my life came together, and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago".
He says he was aware that in The Snow Leopard he was pulling together all the strands of his life.
