This little gem is just too good to not say anything. “Conflict-averse,” you say?
The Guardian is dredging up some old tidbits from an interview Nigella Lawson did with the Radio Times six weeks before the fraud trial against her two former assistants began. And, of course, after her divorce from art dealer Charles Saatchi. But it’s not what you think it means! She just wants to focus on the food, you guys!
“What I liked, not being terribly confrontational as a person, is that because you taste everything blind, you’re never making any judgments on a person and you’re just talking about the food … So much of reality TV is the theatre of humiliation or in some sense the culture of the breast-heaving backstory, so to have a food competition that is actually about the food is … rather pleasant.”
Erm, yes. But. Sometimes that back story is hard to ignore, … right?
Lawson also admitted to being more of a home cook than a professional chef:
“What I would say – and this is not about the food, it is about the personality – is that, as a general rule, chefs are conflict-driven, they are perfectionist, they are risk-takers … Whereas home cooks tend to be conflict-averse – well, I am – not necessarily risk-takers, and we seek to use food to bring harmony, for whatever reason.”
… And the cocaine allegations fit in where, in this conflict-averse, zero-risk lifestyle you lead?
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