OHMYGOSSIP — Nigella Lawson suffered “crippling reader’s block” during the UK’s first lockdown.
The 60-year-old food writer has revealed she’s experienced a “second bout” of reader’s block after the country recently went into another lockdown period.
She said: “I’m suffering from crippling reader’s block. I had months of it during the earliest months of the first long lockdown, then recovered, but now, since about a week ago, find myself back in another bout.
“I don’t know what’s worse about it: the despair or the overwhelming sense of alienation.”
Nigella revealed she loves to reread Charles Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’, saying it gives her a “bolstering reminder of greatness”.
She told the Guardian newspaper: “I’m not sure I’d say I reach for comfort in Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’, but I reread it regularly for a bolstering reminder of greatness, to be made to laugh and reminded that, however many times I read it, it always bowls me over afresh.”
Earlier this month, meanwhile, Nigella admitted that cooking helped to give her some structure amid the first lockdown.
She said: “It became so clear that in these very formless days when there was a shapelessness to them, it was food that actually gave us structure and gave a sense of not being in that sort of free floating anxiety state.”
The TV star also thinks that lockdown has changed attitudes towards cooking.
She explained: “I did spend quite a lot of time on Twitter saying to people, ‘You have to think about these ingredients, you want to substitute in terms of the qualities they possess. Are you looking for the fattiness or the saltiness or the sweetness?’
“I felt that perhaps during the stricter lockdown, that people were beginning to have an idea of much more what cooking really is, which is improvisation, informed improvisation.”
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