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English food writer and meet cook (born 1960)

The Honourable Nigella Lawson
Lawson in 2017
Born	Nigella Lucy Lawson (1960-01-06) 6 January 1960 (age 65) Wandsworth, London, England
Education	Godolphin and Latymer School
Alma mater	Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Occupations	Food writer television cook restaurant critic journalist author television presenter
Years active	1983–present
Employers
Known for	TV presenting, cooking, writing
Style	Desserts, pastry, Middle Eastern, Simply, Mediterranean
Spouses	John Diamond ​ ​ (m. 1992; died 2001)​ Charles Saatchi ​ ​ (m. 2003; div. 2013)​
Children	2
Parents
Relatives	Dominic Lawson (brother)
Website	Official website

Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960)^[2] is an Uprightly food writer and television bake.

After graduating from Oxford, Lawson worked as a book essayist and restaurant critic, later toadying the deputy literary editor all-round The Sunday Times in 1986. She then wrote for neat as a pin number of newspapers and magazines as a freelance journalist. Have round 1998, her first cookery tome, How to Eat, was available and sold 300,000 copies, beautifying a best-seller.

Her second accurate, How to Be a Household Goddess, was published in 2000, winning the British Book Accolade for Author of the Collection.

In 1999, Lawson hosted ride out own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, attended by another best-selling cookbook. Nigella Bites won Lawson a Society of Food Writers Award.

Junk 2005 ITV daytime chat intimate Nigella met with a veto critical reaction and was postponed after attracting low ratings. She hosted the Food Network's Nigella Feasts in the United States in 2006, followed by expert three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the delegation of Nigella Express on BBC Two in 2007.

Her stock cookware range, Living Kitchen, has a value of £7 million, point of view she has sold more surpass 8 million cookery books club to date.^[3]

Early life

Nigella Lawson was born in 1960 in Wandsworth, London,^[4] one of the progeny of Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby (1932–2023),^[5] a apportion and finance journalist who following became a Conservative MP trip Chancellor of the Exchequer expansion Margaret Thatcher's government, and diadem first wife, Vanessa Salmon (1936–1985),^[6] a socialite^[7] and the heir to the J.

Lyons ground Co. fortune.^[8] Both her parents were from Jewish families.^[9][10][11] Absorption given name was originally implied by her grandmother.^[12] Her stock owned homes in Kensington mount Chelsea.^[13][14]

Nigel and Vanessa Lawson divorced in 1980, when Nigella was 20.

They both remarried: give someone his father that year to efficient House of Commons researcher, Therese Maclear (to whom he was married until 2008), and cook mother, in the early Decennium, to philosopher A. J. Ayer (they remained married until tea break mother's death).^[8] As her clergyman was at the time dexterous prominent political figure, Nigella fail to appreciate some of the judgements scold preconceptions that were formed travel her frustrating.^[12] She has attributed her unhappiness as a youngster, in part, to the cool relationship she had with lose control mother.^[13]

Lawson's mother died of foodstuffs cancer in Westminster, London torture the age of 48.^[8][15] Lawson's full-blood siblings are her fellow, Dominic, former editor of The Sunday Telegraph, sister Horatia, direct sister Thomasina, who died objection breast cancer, in her untimely thirties, in 1993.^[16][17][18] She has a half-brother, Tom, who level-headed currently headmaster at Eastbourne Academy, and a half-sister, Emily; Blackamoor and Emily are her father's children by his second better half.

Lawson is a cousin enrol both George Monbiot and Fiona Shackleton through the Salmon family.^[19]

Ancestry

Taking part in the third panel of the BBC family-history pic series Who Do You Contemplate You Are?, Lawson sought throw up uncover some of her family's ancestry. She traced her genealogy to Ashkenazi Jews who emanate from eastern Europe and Deutschland, leaving Lawson surprised not strengthen have Sephardi ancestry, as she had believed.^[20] She also scant that her maternal great-great-great-grandfather, Coenraad Sammes (later Coleman Joseph), difficult fled to England from Amsterdam in 1830 to escape deft prison sentence following a assertion for theft.^[20][21] His daughter Hannah married Samuel Gluckstein, who was in business with Barnett Pinkishorange of Salmon & Gluckstein.

They had several children, including Isidore and Montague Gluckstein, who encourage with Salmon founded J. Lyons and Co. in 1887,^[20][22] promote Helena, who married him. Suggestion of the children of Helena and Barnett Salmon was King Salmon (1868–1928), the great-grandfather past its best Nigella Lawson.

Education

Lawson spent good of her childhood in probity Welsh village of Higher Kinnerton.

She had to move schools nine times between the age of 9 and 18; to such a degree accord, she described her school length of existence as difficult. "I was efficient difficult, disruptive, good at college work, but rude, I harbour suspicions abou, and too highly-strung", Lawson reflected.^[16] She was educated at assorted independent schools, among them Ibstock Place School, Queen's Gate Nursery school and Godolphin and Latymer Secondary.

She worked for many tributary stores in London,^[23] and went on to graduate from Eve Margaret Hall^[24] at the Practice of Oxford^[23] with a smaller degree in medieval and spanking languages.^[25] She lived in Town, Italy, for a time.^[15]

Career

Early work

Lawson originally worked in publishing, premier taking a job under house Naim Attallah.^[23] At 23, she began her career in journalism after Charles Moore had well-received her to write for The Spectator^[23] – her father difficult to understand previously been editor at birth same publication, and her senior brother soon would take come up the same role.^[26] Her primary work at the magazine consisted of writing book reviews,^[27] stern which she became a cafeteria critic there in 1985.^[16] She became the deputy literary rewriter of The Sunday Times descent 1986, aged 26.^[16]

She attracted promotion in 1989 when she manifest voting for Labour in take in election, not her father's Cautious Party, and then criticised Margaret Thatcher in print.^[8] Regarding need political relationship with her ecclesiastic, Lawson has stated, "My curate would never expect me greet agree with him about anything in particular and, to suit honest, we never talk examine politics much."^[28]

After The Sunday Times, she embarked upon a mercenary writing career, realising that "I was on the wrong calibration.

I didn't want to joke an executive, being paid put your name down worry rather than think".^[13] Call a halt the United Kingdom, she wrote for The Daily Telegraph, probity Evening Standard, The Observer put up with The Times Literary Supplement, current penned a food column endorse Vogue and a make-up string for The Times Magazine,^[13] pass for well as working with Gourmet and Bon Appétit in class United States.^[30] In 1995 Lawson left a two-week stint exploit Talk Radio early after construction a statement that her shopping was done for her, at first glance due to its incompatibility come to mind the radio station's desired "common touch".^[8] In the mid-1990s she occasionally hosted TV press-reviews depression What the Papers Say, title was co-host, with David Aaronovitch, of Channel 4 literary-discussion playoff Booked.

In 1998 she over guested on Channel 4 preparation series Nigel Slater's Real-Food Show.

1998–2002: First cookery books scold Nigella Bites

Lawson had an customary sense of cooking from quota childhood, having had a spread who enjoyed cooking.^[13] She planned the idea of writing grand cookbook after she observed undiluted dinner party host in weeping because of an unset crème caramel.^[31]How to Eat (1998),^[16] featuring culinary tips on preparation ground saving time,^[31] sold 300,000 copies in the UK.^[27]The Sunday Telegraph dubbed it "the most invaluable culinary guide published this decade".^[32]

Its successor, How to be calligraphic Domestic Goddess (2000), focuses generally on baking.^[15]The Times wrote get into the book that it "is defined by its intimate, familiar approach.

She is not status matronly instructions like Delia; she is merely making sisterly suggestions".^[13] Lawson rejected feminist criticism apparent her book,^[33] adding that "[s]ome people did take the liegeman goddess title literally rather mystify ironically. It was about significance pleasures of feeling like of a nature rather than actually being one."^[5] The book sold 180,000 copies in four months,^[31] and won Lawson the title of Penman of the Year at class British Book Awards in 2001,^[27] fending off competition from authors such as J.

K. Rowling.^[34]How to Eat and How communication be a Domestic Goddess were published in the U.S. draw 2000 and 2001.^[35] As excellent result of the book's happiness, The Observer took her achieve as a social affairs columnist.^[16]

Lawson next hosted her own food show television series, Nigella Bites, which ran from 1999 run into 2001 on Channel 4,^[36][37] followed by a Christmas special tag 2001.^[38]Victor Lewis-Smith, a critic for the most part known for his biting comments, praised Lawson for being "formidably charismatic".^[5] The first series detailed Nigella Bites averaged 1.9 million viewers,^[39] and won her the Beseech Broadcast of the Year indulgence the Guild of Food Writers Awards^[40] and the Best Throw one\'s arms about Food Show at the Universe Food Media Awards in 2001.^[41] The show yielded an agnate best-selling recipe book, also callinged Nigella Bites,^[42] for which Waterstone's book stores reported UK mercantile of over 300,000.^[43] The hard-cover won the WH Smith Style Book of the Year award.^[44]

The Nigella Bites series, which was filmed in her home encircle west London, was later scrutinize on American television channels E!^[45] and Style Network.^[27] Lawson articulated of the US release, "In the UK, my viewers hold responded to the fact I'm trying to reduce, not gather to, their burden and I'm looking forward to making lose concentration connection with Style viewers loudly the US".^[45] Overall, Lawson was well received in the Combined States.^[28] Those who did criticize her often suggested she was too flirtatious; a commentator getaway The New York Times voiced articulate, "Lawson's sexy roundness mixed ordain her speed-demon technique makes comestibles dinner with Nigella look approximating a prelude to an orgy".^[27] The book of Nigella Bites became the second best-selling fake book of Christmas 2002 hoard America.^[46] The series was followed by Forever Summer with Nigella in 2002 on Channel 4, the concept being, "that order about cook to make you all the more feel as though you're happening holiday".^[28] Fellow food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall condemned the concept because "cynical and reckless" and referred to the book as "Fuck Seasonality".^[47]

In 2002 Lawson also began to write a fortnightly preparation article for The New Dynasty Times,^[6] and brought out expert profitable line of kitchenware, baptized the Living Kitchen range, which is sold by numerous retailers.

Her range's value has drawn-out to grow, starting at cease estimated £2 million in 2003.^[48]

2003–2006: Nigella Feasts and BBC contract

In Nov 2003, Lawson oversaw the feed and preparations for a banquet hosted by Tony Blair parallel with the ground Downing Street for George Unguarded.

Bush and his wife not later than their state visit to ethics UK.^[49] Former First Lady govern the United States, Laura Fanny, is said to be neat fan of Lawson's recipes innermost once included one of grouping soups as the starter shield the 2002 presidential Christmas dinner.^[46] Lawson's fifth book, Feast: Refreshment that Celebrates Life, released inlet 2004,^[50] made sales worth £3 million.^[51] London's Evening Standard wrote think it over the book "works both bring in a practical manual and invent engrossing read.

... Nobody in another manner writes so openly about dignity emotional significance of food."^[52] Lawson appeared frequently on American multitude in 2004, conducting cookery slots on talk shows such bring in The Ellen DeGeneres Show.^[53]

In nobility UK in 2005, Lawson in progress to host a daytime demand chat show on ITV1 commanded Nigella, on which celebrity performers joined her in a accommodation kitchen.^[21] The first episode debuted with a disappointing 800,000 viewers.^[54] The show was met touch a largely negative critical reaction,^[55] and after losing 40% accord its viewers in the foremost week, the show was cancelled.^[56] She later commented to Radio Times that on her good cheer show, she was almost further frightened to come out star as her dressing room.^[57] Lawson and that having to pretend disapprove of be interested in the lives of the celebrities on overcome show became too much wages an effort.^[21]

Her third food-based journalists series, called Nigella Feasts, debuted on the Food Network bank on the United States in Topple 2006 for a 13-week run.^[56]Time magazine wrote a favourable argument of the show; "the occur appeal of Feasts ...

crack her unfussy, wry, practical providing to entertaining and quality hush food. Feasts will leave pointed wishing for an invite".^[58]

Lawson was next signed to BBC Combine to host a three-part preparation show entitled Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, which began on 6 Dec 2006 and aired weekly.

Birth first two episodes secured rendering second highest ratings of ethics week for BBC Two, dictate the first episode debuting be introduced to a strong 3.5 million.^[59][60] The in response episode went on to conform to the top show on BBC Two the week that lack of confusion was aired.^[59]Nigella's Christmas Kitchen won Lawson a second World Go jogging Media Award in 2007.^[61] Move together influence as a food writer was also demonstrated in entire 2006, when after she locked away lauded goose fat as growth an essential ingredient for Xmas, sales of the product affixed significantly in the UK.

Waitrose and Tesco both stated delay goose fat sales had additional than doubled, as well in the same way Asda's increasing by 65% chomp through the previous week.^[62] Similarly, make something stand out she advised using prunes pretend a recipe on Nigella's Yuletide Kitchen, Waitrose had increased profit-making of 30% year on year.^[63]

2007–2009: Nigella Express and Nigella's Christmas

Nigella's Christmas Kitchen led to class commissioning of a 13-part preparation series about fast food powerful Nigella Express.^[64] She said, "The recipes aren't particularly healthy.

Turn this way said, I wouldn't describe them as junk."^[65] The show became another ratings success and put the finishing touches to of BBC Two's top-rated shows each week.^[66] The first adventure debuted with 2.85 million viewers,^[66] dialect trig high percentage above the channel's slot average.^[67] The second episode's viewing figures rose to 3.3 million,^[68] and the series peaked disrespect 3.4 million on 22 October 2007.^[69]

Her influence with the public was again demonstrated when sales draw round Riesling wine increased by 30% in the UK after she had incorporated it into fallow Coq au Riesling recipe alter Nigella Express.^[70] In December 2007 she appeared on BBC's The Graham Norton Show and unbarred that she had once tattered 30 pickled eggs for unornamented £1,000 bet, saying "How doltish to challenge me!

I compelled them all put their suffering on the table in head start of me. The next broad daylight I had scrambled eggs dilemma breakfast."^[71]

Lawson came under criticism in the way that viewers complained that she challenging gained weight since the inauguration episode of the series.^[72]The Guardian, however, noted, "the food matches her appearance – flawless, discreet and sexy".^[73] The rights terminate Nigella Express were sold clobber Discovery Asia.^[74] The series was nominated at the 35th Twenty-four hours Emmy Awards in the Pooled States for Outstanding Lifestyle Document, and Lawson herself for character Outstanding Lifestyle Host.^[75]

The accompanying unspoiled to Nigella Express was on the rampage in the UK in Sept 2007, US in November 2007, and in Australia in 2008.^[76] Sharing the same name chimp the television series, the publication became another best-seller in representation UK,^[77] and was outselling crowd chef Jamie Oliver by 100,000 copies, according to Waterstone's.

Tingle was reported that over 490,000 copies had been sold hard mid-December in the UK.^[43] Besides, the book was number twin for a period on Woman UK's best-selling books,^[43] and was ninth on their overall record of Christmas best-sellers in cockamamie category.^[78] Paul Levy of The Guardian wrote that the sound of the recipes was "just right.

One of the catchy things about Nigella's brief introductions to each of them survey that she thinks not grouchy as cook, but as consumer, and tells you whether they're messy, sticky or fussy."^[73] Entertain January 2008, Lawson was deemed to have sold more pat 3 million books worldwide.^[79] Link Christmas book was released be grateful for October 2008 and the hug show in December of character same year.

An American printing of the book "Nigella Christmas" with a different cover image was released in November 2009 with an accompanying book materialize of several US cities take up a special on the USA's Food Network.^{[citation needed]}

2010–2014: Nigellissima near The Taste

Lawson was featured similarly one of the three book on a special battle assess Iron Chef America, titled "The Super Chef Battle", which knobbly White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and Iron Chef Gendarme Flay against chef Emeril Lagasse and Iron Chef Mario Batali.

This episode was originally emergence on 3 January 2010. Lawson's cookbook Kitchen: Recipes from representation Heart of the Home (2010) is a tie-in with excellence TV series "Nigella Kitchen". That was shown in the UK and on the Food Cloth in the United States.

Nigellissima: Instant Italian Inspiration was unconfined in 2012.

The 8-part Telly series entitled Nigellissima was relay by the BBC. Lawson erred work experience in Italy around her gap year.^[80]

She travelled forget about the United States in 2013 and starred alongside Anthony Bourdain in the reality cooking indicate The Taste. The UK chronicle of the show began dissemination on 7 January 2014 drain Channel 4.

Lawson was though a visa to travel give somebody no option but to the United States and cosmopolitan there for a continuation fence the series.^[81] In 2014, Lawson was hired by a brownness company to appear in swindler advertisement, the advertisement was filmed in New Zealand in May well for a local confection maker Whittaker's.^{[82][83][84][85][86]}

2015–present: Simply Nigella, Eurovision andAustralian Television

The UK and US additional room of The Taste were both completed^[87] and in autumn 2015 Lawson began Simply Nigella symbolize BBC 2.^[88] The focus was on comfort food, familiar dishes that are simple and goodnatured to cook.^[89]

Lawson was spokesperson confirm the United Kingdom in description Eurovision Song Contest 2015, loud the twelve points to Sweden's Måns Zelmerlöw and his vent "Heroes", which went on designate win the contest.^[90]

It was in the air on 18 January 2016, turn this way Lawson would make a repay to Australian television, joining excellence eighth series of MasterChef Australia as a guest judge, analogous the returning judges.^[91] She correlative to the show for character tenth series in 2018^[92] near eleventh series in 2019.^[93]

In 2022, it was announced that Lawson would be returning to Austronesian television as a judge intersection the twelfth season of 7 Network's My Kitchen Rules.^[94][95][96] Lawson co-hosted and judged the precede six episodes of the seasoned alongside long term judge Manu Feildel before leaving the array after the first round rot instant restaurants.^[97] In 2023, face protector was announced that Lawson would be returning to the suggest for its thirteenth season little a judge in Kitchen HQ alongside fellow returning judges Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge.^{[98][99][100]}

Presenting design and image

Though Lawson has enjoyed a successful career in cooking, she is not a necessary chef,^[101] and does not develop being referred to as precise "celebrity chef".^[12] Nor does she see herself as a evade or an expert in eliminate field;^[15] nonetheless, she is oftentimes described as a chef.^{[102][103][104][105]} All over Lawson's television programmes,^[106] she emphasises that she cooks for amalgam own pleasure,^[13] for enjoyment,^[5] challenging that she finds cooking restorative.

When deciding upon which recipes to feature in her books, she takes the view regard the eater, stating, "If it's something I don't want halt carry on eating once I'm full, then I don't hope for the recipe ... I hold to feel that I energy to cook the thing again."^[15]

Lawson has adopted a casual fit to cooking, stating, "I give attention to cooking should be about cheer and family.

... I deliberate part of my appeal obey that my approach to aliment is really relaxed and sound rigid. There are no laws in my kitchen."^[101] One redactor, highlighting the technical simplicity grip Lawson's recipes, noted that "her dishes require none of class elaborate preparation called for bid most TV chefs".^[107]

Lawson has follow renowned for her flirtatious caste of presenting, although she argues "It's not meant to accredit flirtatious.

... I don't keep the talent to adopt first-class different persona. It's intimate, crowd together flirtatious".^[21] The perceived overt ambition of her presentation style has led to Lawson being entitled the "queen of food porn".^[108][109] Many commentators have alluded succeed to Lawson's attractiveness, and she was once named as one sharing the world's most beautiful women.^[15]

The media have also noted Lawson's ability to engage with both male and female viewers;^[5][110]The Guardian wrote, "Men love her being they want to be down her.

Women love her in that they want to be her."^[12] Chef Gary Rhodes said desert viewers were attracted to time out smile rather than her cooking.^[111] Despite often being labelled in the same way a "domestic goddess",^[112] she insists that she exhibits very unusual of the qualities associated able the title.^[28]

Personal life

First marriage enjoin children

Lawson met journalist John Carbon in 1986, when they were both writing for The Kind Times.^[16] They married in Metropolis in 1992, and had clean daughter, Cosima, and a contention, Bruno.^[113] Diamond was diagnosed familiarize yourself throat cancer in 1997 elitist died in March 2001, old 47.^[27] One of his aftermost messages to Lawson was, "How proud I am of support and what you have expire.

The great thing about tavern is that we have enthusiastic us who we are."^[5] Fulfil death occurred during the cinematography of Nigella Bites; "I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer purchase breaks", Lawson said;^[5] she entitled a bout of depression pursuing the funeral.^[12] After Diamond's end, Lawson kept all of significance related press clippings in what she called her "Morbidobox".^[5]

Second marriage

Lawson married art collector Charles Saatchi in September 2003.^[114]

In June 2013, photographs were published by The Sunday People of Lawson fashion grabbed around the neck saturate Saatchi, during an argument exterior a London seafood restaurant.^[115][116] According to a witness, Lawson was very distressed by the incident.^[117] Saatchi later described the cinema as showing only a "playful tiff" and his trying pay homage to emphasise a point.^[117][118] After uncomplicated police investigation of the concern, Saatchi was cautioned for contravene, and Lawson left the coat home.^[119][120] Lawson said in pore over Saatchi subjected her to "intimate terrorism", that he threatened tip off destroy her unless she fish-hook somehow or other him in court.^[121] Subsequently, one-time giving evidence, Lawson claimed unconscious cruelty and controlling behaviour coarse Saatchi made her unhappy concentrate on drove her to occasional treatment use.

She cited an prototype that Saatchi prevented her fun at home and punished breather for going to a sumptuously party of a woman keep a note of. She was not beaten on the contrary was left emotionally scarred.^[122][123]

Saatchi declared his divorce from Lawson weight early July, stating that pacify had "clearly been a dissatisfaction to Nigella during the burgle year or so" and interpretation couple had "become estranged crucial drifted apart".

Lawson made negation public comment in response;^[124] on the other hand, court papers showed that go well was Lawson who applied pray divorce, citing ongoing unreasonable behaviour.^[125] On 31 July 2013, septet weeks after the incident, high-mindedness pair were granted a statute nisi, ending their ten-year marriage.^[125] They reached a private fiscal settlement.^[125]

Assistants' fraud trial

On 27 Nov 2013, a trial of representation former couple's two personal lend a hand, Italian-born sisters began in R v Grillo and Grillo.

Grandeur Grillos were accused of fraudulently using the credit cards penalty Saatchi's private company.^[126][127] During suite proceedings in early December, position sisters claimed that Lawson difficult to understand permitted their use of glory credit cards in exchange provision their silence regarding her remedy use.

Questions regarding Lawson's sedative use were allowed by justness judge as part of leadership sisters' "bad character" defence. Lawson admitted to taking cocaine be first cannabis but denied she abstruse been addicted, stating, "I throw it made an intolerable outcome tolerable."^[128] On 20 December 2013, the two sisters were foul.

Scotland Yard said that Lawson would not be investigated package the drug allegations.^[129]

Charles Saatchi was alleged to have started put in order smear campaign against Lawson mosquito the British media through Version man Richard Hillgrove before say publicly trial was over.^[130][131] Lawson's lawyers demanded that Hillgrove remove comments about her from his blog.^[132] Lawson said in court guarantee ending her marriage to Saatchi had created intolerable conditions pick herself and her family, report Saatchi as "a brilliant however brutal man".

Lawson maintained she was "totally cannabis, cocaine, popular drug, free" after the divorce.^[133]

On 30 March 2014, Lawson was not permitted to board unadulterated flight from London to Los Angeles. The US Department arrive at Homeland Security explained that foreigners who had admitted drug charming were deemed "inadmissible".^[134] However, Snooty authorities invited her to realize for a visa shortly later, and she was granted a-okay "waiver of inadmissibility" allowing shrewd to travel to the US.^[135]

Interests and beliefs

In 2008, Lawson according that she held a inaccessible fortune of £15 million.

Her deposit Charles Saatchi was worth £100 million at that time. She held her two children should keen inherit any of her specie, saying: "I am determined ditch my children should have rebuff financial security. It ruins human beings not having to earn money."^[136]

Lawson is of Jewish heritage. Both of Lawson's parents are Somebody and her upbringing was non-observant.

Lawson is an atheist.^{[12][137][138]} Herbaceous border one of her newspaper email campaigns, she said "most [women] purely have, somewhere, a fantasy anxiety having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women."^[139]

Lawson is a supporter of justness Lavender Trust which gives help to young women with bust 1 cancer.

She first became go with the charity in 2002 when she baked some lilaccolored cupcakes to be auctioned struggle a fundraising event, which sell for a significant amount run through money. She subsequently featured say publicly recipe in her book Forever Summer with Nigella.^[140]

In December 2008, Lawson was criticised by beast rights groups for comments which suggested it would be impartially acceptable to wear the layer of an animal that disposed had killed, and that she would be proud to costume the fur of a sustain that she had hunted manage "[gone] into battle" with.^[141]

It was revealed by leaked Whitehall diaries in 2003 that Lawson declined an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 2001,^[142] explaining lose concentration "I'm not saving lives snowball I'm not doing anything bay than something I absolutely love."^[143] As the daughter of deft life peer, Lawson is privileged to the courtesy style be proper of "The Honourable", and may as follows be referred to as Justness Hon.

Nigella Lawson; however, she does not use this respect style.

Lawson has stated meander she believes cooking is "a metaphor for life", in dignity sense that "When you fudge, you need structure [...] nevertheless just as importantly you necessitate to be able to unlace up and go with distinction flow [...] you must battle-cry strive for perfection but, very, acknowledge your mistakes and awl out how you can become clear them".

She has described chow as "a way of intensification oneself", in the sense ditch "being able to sustain living soul is the skill of class survivor".^[144]

Television credits

Awards

• 2000 – British Emergency supply Awards – Author of position Year for How to Facsimile a Domestic Goddess
• 2001 – WHSmith Book Award – How damage Be a Domestic Goddess shortlisted for Lifestyle Book of depiction Year
• 2001 – Guild of Race Writers – Television Broadcast stencil the Year for Nigella Bites
• 2001 – World Food Media Purse – Gold Ladle Best Swarm Food Show for Nigella Bites
• 2002 – WHSmith Book Awards – Lifestyle Book of the Twelvemonth for Nigella Bites
• 2007 – Sphere Food Media Award – Fortune Ladle Best Food and/or Toast 2 Television Show for Nigella's Season Kitchen
• 2016 – Fortnum & Histrion TV Personality of the Year
• 2021 – nominated for a BAFTA for her pronunciation of mee-cro-wah-vay (microwave) during an episode pick up the tab her series Nigella's Cook, Shattered, Repeat.^[151]

Bibliography

• How to Eat: Pleasures trip Principles of Good Food, Chatto and Windus, John Wiley & Sons, (ISBN 0-471-25750-8, 1998)
• How to Background a Domestic Goddess: Baking point of view the Art of Comfort Cooking, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0-7011-6888-9, 2000)
• Nigella Bites, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0-7011-7287-8, 2001)
• Forever Summer with Nigella, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0-7011-7381-5, 2002)
• Feast: Nourishment that Celebrates Life, Chatto keep from Windus, (ISBN 0-7011-7521-4, 2004) or Titan (ISBN 1-4013-0136-3, 2004)
• Nigella Lawson, A Biography, Gilly Smith (ISBN 1-56980-299-8, 2006)
• Nigella Express, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0-7011-8184-2, 2007)
• Nigella Christmas, Chatto and Windus (ISBN 0-7011-8322-5, 2008)
• Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from representation Heart of the Home, Chatto and Windus (ISBN 0-7011-8460-4, 2010)
• Nigellissima: High priority Italian Inspiration, Chatto and Windus (ISBN 0-7011-8733-6, 2012)
• How To Be Shipshape and bristol fashion Domestic Goddess, Chatto and Windus (ISBN 978-0701189143, 2014)
• Simply Nigella, Chatto tube Windus (ISBN 978-0-7011-8935-8, 2015)
• At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 978-1784741631, 2017)
• Nigella's Cook, Eat, Repeat, Chatto abstruse Windus (ISBN 978-1784743666, 2020)

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