The trouble with modern cooking is that the mood it induces in the cook is one of skin-of-the-teeth efficiency, all briskness and little pleasure.
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- Nigella Lawson
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- How to be a Domestic Goddess (2000), quoted by Hadley Freeman in "Nigella Lawson: 'I didn't think I’d be a mended person, but I am'", The Guardian (10 October 2020).
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