Nigella Lawson
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The Honourable Nigella Lucy Lawson (born January 6, 1960) is a British journalist, cookery writer and television presenter. She is the daughter of politician Nigel Lawson and sister of Dominic Lawson, the current editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
She has had two television cooking series broadcast in the UK on Channel 4: Nigella Bites in 2001 and Forever Summer with Nigella in 2002, both of which have accompanying recipe books.
Her style of presentation is sometimes gently mocked by comedians and commentators (particular a regularly occuring impersonation of her in the BBC television comedy series Dead Ringers) who perceive that she plays overtly upon her undoubted attractiveness and sexuality as a device to engage viewers of her cookery programmes.
She was married to journalist John Diamond, who died of throat cancer in 2001, with whom she had two children, Cosima and Bruno. They met in 1992 when they were both writing for The Sunday Times. She married Charles Saatchi (17 years her senior) in September of 2003.
See also: List of British Jews
Bibliography
- How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food, Chatto and Windus, (1999) or John Wiley & Sons, (ISBN 0471257508, 2002)
- How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0701168889, 2000)
- Nigella Bites, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0701172878, 2001)
- Forever Summer with Nigella, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0701173815, 2002)
- Forever Summer, Hyperion, (ISBN 1401300162, 2003)
- Feast: Food That Celebrates Life, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0701175214, 2004) or Hyperion (ISBN 1401301363, 2004)
External links
- Nigella's official website (http://www.nigella.com/)
- Biography (http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/N/nigella/biography.shtml) from Channel 4
- Biography (http://www.stylenetwork.com/Shows/Nigella/Bio/index.html) from Style Network
- NPR: Interview from May 2004 (http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1872664)
- Business Week: Interview from November 2002 (http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2002/nf20021119_5785.htm)
- GQ: Interview from January 2001 (http://www.nigella.com/nigella/detail.asp?article=35&area=10)
- The Guardian: Interview from December 2000 (http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/houseandgarden/story/0,6000,412368,00.html)eo:Nigella LAWSON