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Kelly Rissman
US News Reporter
Nigella Lawson has confessed to a surprising bedroom habit – and arguably an even naughtier one in the kitchen.
The TV cook, 64, who has won a legion of fans for her earthy approach to food and for her distinctive narration style, revealed that there’s one act in particular she enjoys taking into her bed.
“I am very pro-eating in bed. I will eat absolutely anything in bed except something that needs a knife and fork. It has to be either fingers or a spoon,” she told The Times to mark the arrival of her new campaign with Ocado extolling the joys of solo suppers.
She continued that she “sometimes” eats on the sofa, but she has one habit which she considers even naughtier.
“I often do something much worse [than sofa eating],” she said. “Which is having the bowl on the kitchen surface and I lean up against it and eat standing up. I am about to take my bowl somewhere else but then I get sidetracked.”
She explained that her eating habits had been influenced by her relationship with her late husband, the writer John Diamond.
“When I was married to John, my late husband, he got oral cancer and he couldn’t eat,” she explained.
“I had to make a conscious decision to cook for myself. Otherwise, it was very easy to say, ‘Oh well, I will just have a sandwich,’ which isn’t good. Cooking for myself became a very important way that I found both physical and emotional sustenance.”
In 2018, the food writer denied intentionally using innuendos in her work and accused audiences of “projecting” on to her.
Quoting Lawson, Australian TV host Hamish MacDonald read: “My empty vessels are ready to be loaded, I adore the way it comes bulging up over the rim”.
Noticeably irritated, the chef, who is estimated to have sold more than 3 million cookery books worldwide, insisted his suggestion that she deliberately uses innuendo was wrong.
Appearing lost for words, she replied: “Yes but why, tell me this – it’s an empty vessel… When I say it…”
Macdonald interjected and again appeared to imply the use of language was intentional.
“You have this way of saying things,” he insisted.
Hitting back, Lawson replied: “I have this way of people projecting things on me. I’m so not. I don’t get it. I need you to explain to me.”
