Nigella Lawson Quotes

Nigella Lawson — British Journalist born on January 06, 1960,

Nigella Lucy Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa Lawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering business. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1998, she brought out her first cookery book, How to Eat, which sold 300,000 copies and became a best-seller. She wrote her second book in 2000, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, which won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year... (wikipedia)

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.