Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawsonis an English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and VanessaLawson, 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,...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 January 1960
CityLondon, England
(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.
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.
And cooking is about balance and harmony.
Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.
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.
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
It's also quite early on in the relationship to start having babies but obviously because of my age, I can't just say I'll do it in three years' time.
They believe in marriage, which is great, but it's also because of their egotism. Children see everything according to how it impinges on them.
The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.
'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.
You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
What I'm doing here is seeking to offer protection from life, solely through the means of potato, butter and cream... there are times when only mashed potato will do.