Nigella Lawson - Food Quotes

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... obesity isn't caused by those who adore food. People tend not to put on weight through eating meals. I'd say it's people who eat non-stop.

Nigella Lawson

I wouldn't have written about food if my mother and sister hadn't died because I would have had them to talk to. I'm not into the performance of cooking. It's a conversation for me.

Nigella Lawson

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.

Nigella Lawson

To me, sentimentality is a cheap and unfeeling substitute for true emotion. I think food is very much about emotion, personally and historically. It takes in happiness and unhappiness. It doesn't always play the role of being nurturing and benign, which is how we tend to think of it. It reflects every aspect of our lives and our personalities.

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Food can comfort. But when you've just lost someone you love you don't want that to be the case. When my mother died some people came up to me and said, "You'll get over it." That felt like such an assault to me.

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