Nigella Lawson

Born 1960

From London, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes nonfiction

Quotes

“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.”
2000–2004
“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.”
2000–2004
“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!”
"A woman of extremes"
“I don’t take criticisms personally, which must be very annoying for people who mean them personally.”
"A woman of extremes"
“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.”
2006–2007

Books by Nigella Lawson in the order they were published, from The "Musee Imaginaire" of Pasta (1998) to At My Table (2017).