Nigella Lawson Quotes

Nigella Lucy Lawson is an English food writer and cooking show host. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, a former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa Lawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering business.

She attended Godolphin and Latymer School, London. After graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was a member of Lady Margaret Hall, 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 her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. She published her second book in 2000, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, which won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year.

In 1999 she hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook. Nigella Bites won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award; her 2005 ITV daytime chat show Nigella met with a negative critical reaction and was cancelled after attracting low ratings. She hosted the Food Network's Nigella Feasts in the United States in 2006, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two in 2007. Her own cookware range, Living Kitchen, has a value of £7 million, and she has sold more than 3 million cookery books worldwide to date.



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Famous Nigella Lawson Quotes

“I think cooking should be about fun and family. I'm not a trained chef. I don't pretend to be and I think part of my appeal is that my approach to cooking is really relaxed and not rigid. There are no rules in my kitchen.”

As quoted in "British sensation Lawson says cooking should be about fun, family" by Beth Cooney in Oakland Tribune http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20030604/ai_n14551204 (4 June 2003)

“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.”

As quoted in "Reality bites" by Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,784535,00.html (2 September 2002)

“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.”

As quoted in "The big issue" by Shane Watson in The Times http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet_and_fitness/article2941491.ece (2 December 2007)

“I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”

As quoted in "You Ask The Questions" in The Independent http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020912/ai_n12647620 (12 September 2002)

“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.”

As quoted in "Envy, Lust and Gluttony - The Perfect Recipe" by Jane Warren in Daily Express http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/19663/Envy,-lust-and-gluttony---the-perfect-recipe (20 September 2007)

Nigella Lawson Quotes about people

“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?”

As quoted in "Say What You Like About Nigella Lawson" by Alex Bilmes in Q Magazine http://www.nigella.com/nigella/detail.asp?article=35&area=10 (January 2001)

Nigella Lawson Quotes about feelings

Nigella Lawson Quotes

“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.”

As quoted in "Reality bites" by Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian (2 September 2002)

“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.”

As written in "Sapphism is more than designer-dykery" by Nigella Lawson in The Guardian http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,416467,00.html (31 December 2000)

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