Blue skies, picture-perfect flowers, intricately-prepared cakes and Californian sunshine streams through the windows. Oh, and another celeb turns up in the kitchen.
Is that like your home too? Of course not. And that’s the point really. The new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan is about escapism and aspiration, it’s a glass of something sparkling on a grey day.
We see her standing in a kitchen, albeit not in her own home in Montecito, gathering fruit and herbs in the garden and chatting with friends as she makes food such as focaccia, doughnuts and Korean fried chicken.
It’s also putting on show food products that are being launched by Meghan’s new brand – so there’s a lot of raspberry jam on display (on sale with “keepsake packaging”).
What you won’t see are references to her former life as a working royal, her children Archie and Lilibet aren’t on camera and there’s only a fleeting glimpse of Prince Harry.
“I love feeding people, it’s probably my love language,” says Meghan, as she shows her culinary skills.
She makes different types of pasta, crudités, focaccia, frittata, baked fish. And with advice on how to make guests feel extra special, she shows how to arrange flowers and make DIY bath salts.
There are occasional sprinkles of references to her famous connections. We don’t get to see Prince Harry until the final episode, but we hear he enjoys bacon and likes a lot of salt.
“Well I have a family, a husband, who no matter what meal is put in front of him before he tastes it puts salt on,” Meghan explains. “So I try to under salt.” (BBC News)
