Nigella Lawson, This Too Shall Pass!
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There was the messy divorce, the cocaine accusation (and admission), and now, U.K. food writer and TV personality Nigella Lawson has been denied entry to the U.S.
It’s been a rough couple years for our favorite domestic goddess.
Remember when life was all sexy sweetheart necklines and Eton Messes? Here are some of the Honorable Nigella Lucy Lawson’s best moments, to remind everyone that she’s the best.
* When she said, on the Today Show, “First, I don’t believe in feeling guilty about pleasure. You can’t enjoy the pleasure if you’re too busy feeling guilty. I really like hot dogs.”
* When, speaking of hot dogs, she featured herself eating a late-night snack of baguette stuffed with cocktail sausages.
* When, in 2003’s “Forever Summer,” she introduced us to watermelon and feta salad years before every single restaurant everywhere was serving it.
* When “Feast" came out in 2004 and it was the perfect example of a bedside cookbook. Chatty, informative, and so much fun to read.
* When she wrote in the New York Times that “Solo eating is also the perfect opportunity to indulge more expensive tastes,” convincing one of our editors to eat caviar and blinis at home. “I was in college and probably had about 27 dollars in my bank account, but I made the recipe, bought a tiny little tin of caviar and ate it all at my first apartment kitchen table while reading a stack of fashion magazines. I thought it was the height of decadence. And it was!”
* When she unapologetically made crepes from a packet.
* When she acknowledged that she was the queen of long-winded recipes and promised not to do it anymore. At least for the duration of “Kitchen Express.”
* When she articulated the doneness of cheesecake like this: When the top is set, “but underneath there’s just a hint of inner thigh wibble.”
* When she told TIME that she would never call herself a chef. “I am not in command and I have no one to command. I cook in my kitchen.”
* When, in the same interview, she said that almost nothing savory can’t be saved with a sprinkling of fresh parsley and almost nothing sweet can’t be saved with a dusting of powdered sugar and we exhaled with relief that our own thoughts had been validated.
* When in court last year, she responded to lawyer Anthony Metzer’s question, “Your staff are now part of what they call ‘Team Nigella’?” very calmly, with, “No, they call themselves ‘Team Cupcake.’”
* When she recently tweeted a photo of her holiday trip packing essentials: Colman’s mustard and Maldon sea salt.
* When she described Duck Breasts with Pomegranate and Mint as “joyous,” because who else can do that?
