Lawson, Nigella
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Wikipedia-Article "Nigella Lawson"
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 former editor of the Sunday Telegraph. Her mother was society beauty Vanessa Salmon, heir to the Lyons Corner House empire who died of liver cancer in 1985. Her sister Thomasina died of breast cancer in 1993 while in her early thirties.
Nigella Lawson attended the Godolphin and Latymer School before graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She then wrote a restaurant column for the Spectator before becoming deputy literary editor of the Sunday Times in 1986. 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 occurring 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, despite Lawson's repeated denials that she purposely does so. That said, her fans appreciate her natural and non-technical approach to the pleasures of cooking and eating. Like many contemporary cookbooks, her tomes are lavishly adorned with colorful and cutting-edge food photography, but her most unique contribution is perhaps a dedication to the sensuality of language.
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 1986 when they were both writing for The Sunday Times. She married Charles Saatchi (17 years her senior) in September 2003.
She hosted a daytime TV programme on ITV1 titled "Nigella!" in which celebrity guests joined Nigella in the kitchen. The programme was believed to be the inspiration for the poem July Butterfly by an Irish poet, and the Letter of the Week by same which was carried in the Irish Sunday Independent, dated 24th July 2005. The show wasn't well received by critics and ended after a short run.
According to UKTVFood Nigella Lawson is worth in excess of £1.7million.
See also
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 to Celebrate Life, Chatto and Windus, (ISBN 0701175214, 2004) or Hyperion (ISBN 1401301363, 2004)