Nigella Lawson has confessed the tragic reason behind her passion for food. The telly chef has revealed she’s haunted by late mum’s refusal to indulge in a sweet treat until just two weeks before her death.
Nigella, 60, lost her mum Vanessa to liver cancer aged 48 in 1985 - when she was just 25. She’s since never let herself feel guilty about enjoying food, revealing her mum would make tasty treats but never ate them.
In her new book Cook, Eat, Repeat, Nigella explained how her mum denied herself anything sweet until she found out her cancer was terminal.
Nigella said: "I was brought up by a mother - the cook I have learned most from - whose grimly exuberant output in the kitchen was set in painfully sharp relief, and indeed fostered, by an
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