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
There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
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 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.
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.
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 need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.