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. - Nigella Lawson

[A]ll food images, if they are successful, have the power to arouse appetite. They should be luscious and sexy. I have no embarrassment about the culinary come-on. But that's the limit of my erotic intent. I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

I don't take criticisms personally, which must be very annoying for people who mean them personally.

It's not meant to be flirtatious. Listen, I don't have a presenting style, I'm just me. I don't have the talent to adopt a different persona. It's intimate, not flirtatious.