108 Quotes by Nigella Lawson

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.

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

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

I wasn’t good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn’t like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don’t say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that’s why, for example, people don’t begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day’s work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.

You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don’t read it, you don’t let it into your head. What’s damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

I don’t believe in low-fat cooking.

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.