‘I couldn’t be vegan… I don’t see the point!’ Nigella Lawson admits she lasted TWO WEEKS on a plant-based diet after it made her ‘very run down’ and worsened an iron deficiency
Nigella Lawson has revealed that she lasted just two weeks on a plant-based diet after it left her feeling ‘very run down’ and exacerbated an iron deficiency.
Speaking to The Sunday Times about her new book Cook, Eat, Repeat, the TV chef admitted: ‘I couldn’t be vegan, though I do love vegetables. I don’t see the point.’
The food writer, who is famed for her playful innuendos, continued: ‘I’m very happy to not eat so much meat but I do love it. I’m also in a privileged position and I get great salt-aged beef or lamb, so I never like to lecture people.’
‘I don’t see the point!’ Nigella Lawson has revealed that she lasted just two weeks on a plant-based diet after it left her feeling ‘very run down’ and made an iron deficiency worse
‘I felt very run down, and I’m low iron anyway. So I needed it,’ she revealed.
Referring to factory-produced plant-based food alternatives, the media personality said: ‘I want to eat proper food, because I feel that we have the teeth for meat and so it’s natural for us to want to eat it.
‘I know it’s an argument that vegans disagree with, so I respect that position, but I feel I’m not ready.’
New title: Speaking to The Sunday Times about her new book Cook, Eat, Repeat, the TV chef admitted: ‘I couldn’t be vegan, though I do love vegetables. I don’t see the point’
Her controversial view on vegan diets come as Nigella recently avoided another controversy.
The London-based star has ditched the word ‘s**t’ from her recipes after saying it had developed a ‘coarser’ and ‘more cruel’ meaning in recent years.
In April, Nigella posted her recipe of the day – Ruby Red Raspberries in Chardonnay Jelly – to her Twitter account, with dozens of fans saying it was one of their favourites.
Avoiding controversy: It comes as the London-based star recently ditched the word ‘s**t’ from her recipes after saying it had developed a ‘coarser’ and ‘more cruel’ meaning in recent years
But the eagle-eyed among them noted that when the recipe first appeared in one of her books – 2002’s Forever Summer – it was called S**t Red Raspberries in Chardonnay Jelly.
One fan questioned why she dropped the term, saying: ‘Wonderful recipe (as always!) but it makes me wonder what has happened to this country when we can’t even call that recipe by its hilarious original name. What has happened to our free speech, humour and a sense fun? I love your turn of phrase Nigella!
Nigella replied: ‘I feel that the word has taken on a coarser, more cruel connotation, and I’m not happy with that.’
‘I’m not happy with that’: But the eagle-eyed among them noted that when the recipe first appeared in one of her books, it was called S**t Red Raspberries in Chardonnay Jelly
Nigella has often been hailed a feminist for trying to break the age-old view that women should be the creators of food but not the consumers of it.
She was also praised for refusing to conform to the trend for celebrities to be stick thin – telling recently how she had to tell American TV and billboards not to airbrush her stomach in ads.
She has also said that enjoying cooking isn’t anti-feminist, and said her ‘Domestic Goddess’ actually title reflected that.
Good role model: Nigella has often been hailed a feminist for trying to break the age-old view that women should be the creators of food but not the consumers of it
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