Nigella Lawson Quotes

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.

You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

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.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

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.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.

I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.