British food writer Nigella Lawson has said that her second book,How to Be a Domestic Goddess,is an important feminist tract. Lawson,51,said she meant every word about the book,written in 2000,and which won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year,being important. I think its a very important feminist tract in its own right,and Im not being entirely ironic, the Telegraph quoted Lawson as saying. Baking is the less applauded of the cooking arts,whereas restaurants are a male province to be celebrated. Theres something intrinsically misogynistic about decrying a tradition because it has always been female. Im not being entirely facetious when I say its a feminist tract, she added.
