Nigella Lawson Quotes

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

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

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

Delia Smith calls it ‘tart’s pasta’. Italian American restaurants call it ‘whore’s pasta’. But Nigella Lawson calls it ‘slut’s spaghetti’, and that’s the one I prefer. Because there’s nothing more terrifying than a woman who eats and fucks with abandon.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

Clean eating necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad, and it's not simply a way of shaming and persecuting others, but leads to that self-shaming and self-persecution that is forcibly detrimental to true healthy eating.

I put the kitch into kitchen.

when confidence is undermined or ruptured, it can be difficult to do the simplest things, or to take any enjoyment even in trying.

I despair of the term 'clean eating'...it necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad.

The best sorts of leftover meals are those that are glorified picnics. Alongside the cold meats, you need a good purchased pâté en croûte—one made with veal or duck would be just the thing. Also put on the table some salad and bread.

...That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky...

Wear gloves when peeling a roasted beet unless you want more than a touch of the Lady Macbeths

Eating alone, for me, is most often a prompt to shop. This is where self-absorption and consumerism meet— a rapt, satisfyingly convoluted pleasure.”—Nigella Lawson

GORGONZOLA & CANNELLINI DIP WITH A TRICOLORE FLOURISH I LOVE THIS COMBINATION OF BLUE CHEESE AND WHITE BEANS, but I have to say its gorgeousness is due in no small part to the mascarpone and Marsala that add creaminess of texture and smoky depth of tone respectively. I like this dip to have real tang: I need to feel that burning, blue-cheese buzz.

At all times a heavy ceramic casserole would sit on a pale blue Aga, so should people drop in unexpectedly, I could wander out in my bare feet, welcome them warmly, give them dinner, then press my home-made elderberry wine on them. I would be like Nigella Lawson.

What have I always told you, Bessie? What have I always said? You’re my angel. I am you. I’m the bones in your body and the blood that fills you up and the meat around your legs. I’m the softness of your cheeks and the way they freckle in the summer, and I’m the streaks of rust in your hair, and I’m the nose under your nose and the eyes that narrow with fire and roll backward in delight at all the same things. I’m your style. I’m your laugh. I’m the rage in your heart that I’m not here. You’re the body I left behind.

Wait, you tried to Nigella your Christmas dinner first time out the gate?’ Dev sucked the air in through his teeth as he did a lap around the kitchen, picking things up and putting them down. ‘Schoolboy error, Gwen, schoolboy error. When you’re starting out you want your Delias, your Nadiyas, maybe an early Jamie, but you set yourself up trying to go the full Lawson on your first time. I’m sorry but I’m going to have to take over.

Delia Smith calls it 'tart's pasta'. Italian American restaurants call it 'whore's pasta'. But Nigella Lawson calls it 'slut's spaghetti', and that's the one I prefer. Because there's nothing more terrifying than a woman who eats and fucks with abandon.

The custard should be firm but not immobile; when you press it with your fingers, it should have a little wobble still within. Soft, warm and voluptuous - like an 18th century courtesan's inner thigh.

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

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

It’s easier to impress someone than give them pleasure. Nigella Lawson