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
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
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.
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.
I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.
There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.