Nigella Lawson Quotes
born 1960 England
Nigella Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English journalist, food writer, and television presenter.
Also known as: Lawson, Nigella
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The trouble with modern cooking is that the mood it induces in the cook is one of skin-of-the-teeth efficiency, all briskness and little pleasure.
How to be a Domestic Goddess (2000)
I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
I always wanted to be called Caroline [...] Carolines were always very nice in books.
Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.
A woman of extremes (2001)
I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can’t find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere – cooking is the neatest thing I do.
I don't take criticisms personally, which must be very annoying for people who mean them personally.
A woman of extremes (2001)
Everybody likes to think cooks are nurturing, but maybe we're just controlling – controlling what people eat.
I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.
While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.
But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.
I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.
A woman of extremes (2001)
My sister lives in New York and she was struck by how class-ridden the reviews were. Everyone had to mention that I'm posh. British people are obsessed by that. I said to John, 'I'm not posh.' Is my voice posh?"
It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.
Cooking aside, I am what you'd call a domestic slut. Cooking is really the only domestic activity I enjoy. I would do anything not to do the normal bits of household work - it's not one of my strong points.
I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. [...] My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.
The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.
It's not meant to be flirtatious. Listen, I don't have a presenting style, I'm just me. I don't have the talent to adopt a different persona. It's intimate, not flirtatious.