Gooey rivers of salted caramel dripping down her face, flecks of the salty liquid dribbled alluringly on her lips, Nigella Lawson denies that she ever does double entendre. Sticky fingers oozing with the caramel sauce, she told the Times:
"The image is simply rapturous joy in caramel. It's not obligatory to be smutty minded." she said of the cover of the Stylist, after guest editing their Sunday magazine.
The domestic goddess, whose cookery shows famously feature lots of finger sucking and lipstick licking, said that food makes her want to "wallow in pleasure" but that her salacious image is down to her gender, rather than sensory innuendo.
She told the Times “Appetite is seen as hearty in a male and slightly wanton and lascivious in a female, but that’s just about perception.”
Exclusive recipes featured in The Stylist this Sunday provide culinary and hostess advice for the festive season, including barefoot cooking . A cursory glance at her website shows some sensory language slipped in to a recipe, perhaps suggestive to the less savoury minded:
Lawson's sensual reputation is such, that more that one million have watched a video on YouTube 'Nigella Talks Dirty' made up of clips of her rumbustious vocabulary and rounded vowels.
Nigella caused a stir with a sexy interview for Esquire in 2009, saying: "Stockings never fail to make you feel sexy. I like hold-ups, but the problem is if you've got too much meat at the top, you get a bulge there. So I often wear those over-the-knee French schoolgirl socks.
"But I know men like the whole strappy thing of suspenders, so I'll wear them. In fact, thinking about it, I've actually worn them with nothing but a pair of shoes in bed before."
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