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Hay Festival: Nigella Lawson's husband prefers Weetabix | Hay Festival: Nigella Lawson's husband prefers Weetabix |
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By Catherine Evans BBC Wales News website | By Catherine Evans BBC Wales News website |
She may be a domestic goddess to a major slice of the British population, but Nigella Lawson revealed that her husband sometimes hates her cooking. | She may be a domestic goddess to a major slice of the British population, but Nigella Lawson revealed that her husband sometimes hates her cooking. |
Speaking to a sell-out audience at the Hay Festival on Sunday, Lawson said: "He says there's nothing you can cook me that compares with Weetabix." | |
But she admitted she took any criticism from Charles Saatchi in good humour. | But she admitted she took any criticism from Charles Saatchi in good humour. |
She said she could never be a chef; chefs tended to "live on the edge," but she preferred home cooking, she added. | |
The writer and presenter attributed her love of food and cooking to a rebellion against her mother's "strange and strained relationship with food." | The writer and presenter attributed her love of food and cooking to a rebellion against her mother's "strange and strained relationship with food." |
"I didn't like the tensions around meal times," she said | "I didn't like the tensions around meal times," she said |
"My mother was anorexic, bulimic, I don't know which was first. As a young adult about 18 or 19, I thought 'I'm not going to be made to play this game.' My whole life would be governed by this particular struggle. | |
"I was 15 before I knew there was such a thing as a cookery book." | "I was 15 before I knew there was such a thing as a cookery book." |
Despite a love of food, Lawson said she could not work as a professional chef. | |
"Chefs tend to be very dramatic personalities, who like living dangerously and living on the edge. | |
"Home cooks tend to be slightly more timorous creatures." | "Home cooks tend to be slightly more timorous creatures." |
She added that she only liked cooking for those she loves, and doesn't like cooking for strangers for fear of being judged and getting the "Simon Cowell treatment". | |
But her biggest critic is her husband Charles Saatchi. | But her biggest critic is her husband Charles Saatchi. |
Asked if people sometimes don't like what she's cooked, Lawson laughed and said: "That happens so often, it amuses me." | Asked if people sometimes don't like what she's cooked, Lawson laughed and said: "That happens so often, it amuses me." |
"My husband is only happy with things out of boxes." | |
After cooking a delicious prawn dansak one evening, she was told by Saatchi it was "the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten". | After cooking a delicious prawn dansak one evening, she was told by Saatchi it was "the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten". |
But it was all taken in good humour by Lawson, who, now in her 50s, still attracts a huge male following. | |
"I find it amusing," she said. | "I find it amusing," she said. |
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