Her descriptions of food can be a tangle of adjectives.

Lawson's sexy roundness mixed with her speed-demon technique, makes cooking dinner with Nigella look like a prelude to an orgy.

She has flawless skin, perfect white teeth, a voluptuous body, ample height and lots of lush, brown hair. And then there are those cookbooks, which have become…

Nigella inhabits a strange world of extremes: she has experienced extreme tragedy, extreme success and has the advantage of extreme beauty.

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.

I get so excited when I know I'm going to a good restaurant, then, when I do the review, I write myself up into such a frenzy that I have to go out and eat all…

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.