Nigella Lawson says her favourite Australian food makes her ‘a traitor to her country’ because she prefers it to the British version – and lists her ‘guilty pleasure’ snacks for when she doesn’t feel like cooking
Nigella Lawson is known for her lavish and luscious recipes.
But like everyone else, the cook has a number of guilty pleasures she indulges in when she doesn’t feel like slaving over the stove.
The 61-year-old told this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine she doesn’t like things like pizza and chicken nuggets, and her deep-fryer doesn’t get much use.
Guilty! Nigella Lawson (pictured) told Stellar magazine this week that she has a controversial favourite Australian food – the yeast extract spread, Vegemite
‘That’s not really my thing. Not out of any snobbishness, it’s just there’s so much wonderful food you can eat that doesn’t involve cooking,’ she said.
‘Bread and cheese is always fabulous. I can get a tub of taramasalata and be very happy dipping blue corn chips into it.’
Nigella went on to tell the magazine that she has a controversial favourite Australian food – the yeast extract spread, Vegemite.
Oh! She even prefers it to the British alternative, Marmite – which is a similar yeast spread which is more popular over the pond. Pictured right: Vegemite and left, Marmite
Yummy! ‘I am a bit of a traitor to my own country because I have Vegemite rather than Marmite on my toast. I adore it,’ Nigella admitted
She even controversially prefers it to the British alternative, Marmite – which is a very similar yeast spread which is more popular over the pond.
‘I am a bit of a traitor to my own country because I have Vegemite rather than Marmite on my toast. I adore it,’ Nigella admitted.
In December, Nigella baffled fans with her pronunciation of microwave as ‘meecro-wah-vey’ in the latest episode of her BBC2 cooking show Cook, Eat, Repeat.
Snacks: Like everyone else, the cook has a number of guilty pleasures she indulges in when she doesn’t feel like slaving over the stove, but doesn’t like pizza and chicken nuggets
Tasty: ‘Bread and cheese is always fabulous. I can get a tub of taramasalata and be very happy dipping blue corn chips into it’ Nigella said of her favourite snacks
Taking to Twitter afterwards, the cookbook author has replied to dozens of fans explaining the joke, adding she hopes that the ‘brouhaha’ will be over now.
She offered an explanation for the unusual intonation, saying she knows that’s not how it’s really said but it’s in fact a ‘camp joke that’s become habit’.
Nigella added on another fan it’s part of her sense of humour to ‘deliberately pronounce things wrong’ and even joked she says Worcester as ‘wusster-shusster’.
Laughs: In December, Nigella baffled fans with her pronunciation of microwave as ‘meecro-wah-vey’ in the latest episode of her BBC2 cooking show Cook, Eat, Repeat. She later explained it was a ‘camp joke that’s become habit’
Read more: In this week’s Stellar Magazine