I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater. Nigella Lawson
I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.
You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to? Nigella Lawson
You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. Nigella Lawson
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake. Nigella Lawson
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.
You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well. Nigella Lawson
You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter. Nigella Lawson
Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained. Nigella Lawson
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.
I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so. Nigella Lawson
I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.
I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble. Nigella Lawson
I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.
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. Nigella Lawson
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 believe in low-fat cooking. Nigella Lawson
I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour. Nigella Lawson
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating. Nigella Lawson
I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on. Nigella Lawson
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy. Nigella Lawson
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.
Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients. Nigella Lawson
Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.
Born: January 6, 1960
Profession: Journalist
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