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. Nigella Lawson More Quotes by Nigella Lawson More Quotes From Nigella Lawson You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well. Nigella Lawson live-well wells inspirational I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater. Nigella Lawson qualifications cooks chef You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to? Nigella Lawson knowing want food 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. Nigella Lawson pie want food 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. Nigella Lawson cooking food thinking Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter. Nigella Lawson cheese spread sometimes 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. Nigella Lawson atheist believe jesus I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble. Nigella Lawson double-entendre people I don't believe in low-fat cooking. Nigella Lawson cooking literature believe 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. Nigella Lawson sex enemy thinking 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. Nigella Lawson cake food believe I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating. Nigella Lawson cooks eating believe (In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering. Nigella Lawson tinkering cooking rooms I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour. Nigella Lawson wine taste literature I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased. Nigella Lawson may happiness thinking Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on. Nigella Lawson elements cooking literature Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients. Nigella Lawson oil depth giving 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. Nigella Lawson style people thinking And cooking is about balance and harmony. Nigella Lawson balance-and-harmony cooking literature 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. Nigella Lawson titles feelings people