“I am greedy. I eat under stress. When you are eating, the rest of the world is tuned out. And when you tune back in you feel guilty about having been greedy and the rest of the world is still there, so you have to carry on eating!”

— Nigella Lawson

A woman of extremes (2001)

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British food writer, journalist and broadcaster 1960

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