“my qualification is as an eater... I wanted to make my slavering passion for food the starting point. I have nothing to declare but my greed.”
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Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawson is an English food writer and television cook.
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culture · English food writer and TV cook (born 1960) · journalist · television presenter · writer · cook · also Nigella Lawson, Nigella Lucy Lawson, Hon. Nigella Lucy Lawson, Lawson
Born 6 January 1960 · Q264724
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2026· 14 entries
“s death, Lawson kept all of the related press clippings in what she called her”
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“In the UK, my viewers have responded to the fact I”
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“My father would never expect me to agree with him about anything in particular and, to be honest, we never talk about politics much.”
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“This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Raspberry Ripple Hazelnut Meringue from 'The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen' by the wonderful Bee Wilson! www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...”
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“And I’ve written about some of my beauty favourites – old and new – for the @ftweekend.com. In the paper on Saturday, but online now, and the first 300 readers can access it for free with this gift link! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...”
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“Such a favourite, my Hot and Sour Beef Salad is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/camb...”
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“First family snap from new season’s Bake Off!! It starts on Channel 4 in September, though I haven’t got an exact date to give you yet. As soon as I know, I’ll tell you. (And I have no info on timings for other territories, I’m afraid.) I couldn’t be happier!”
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“#RecipeOfTheDay is particularly helpful if you have a staling loaf about the place: it’s that wonderful Italian bread and tomato salad, Panzanella. You do need good tomatoes, but it’s an excellent use of old ones getting wrinkly and splitting in a warm kitchen. www.nigella.com/recipes/panz...”
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“And a very special #CookbookCorner shoutout for the wonderful 'Lebanon: A Culinary Celebration' by Anissa Helou!”
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“Perfect for a balmy Summer evening, my Saffron-Scented Chicken Pilaff is #RecipeOfTheDay! No one really longs to be at the stove in this weather, but it is a bit cooler right now, and the encouraging comments underneath the recipe may provide further inducement. www.nigella.com/recipes/saff...”
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2026).
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2024· 10 entries
Published video “Nigella's Go-To Gochu Pasta | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella's Honeyed Tarte Tartin | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella's Sgroppino Frozen Cocktail | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella's Summer Sparkle | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella’s Peach Melba Pavlova | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella’s Sensational Summer Salad | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella’s Chicken Salad with Mexican Flavours | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella's Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella's Favourite Potato Salad | Ocado”.
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Published video “Nigella's Cinnamon Scuffles | Ocado”.
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2023· 1 entry
It was announced that Lawson would be returning to the show for its thirteenth season as a judge in Kitchen HQ alongside fellow returning judges Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge
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2022· 1 entry
It was announced that Lawson would be returning to Australian television as a judge on the twelfth season of 7 Network's My Kitchen Rules
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2020· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “In a December 2020 television episode, Nigella Lawson wildly mispronounced the word "microwave."” Mixture.
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2013· 1 entry
And starred alongside Anthony Bourdain in the reality cooking show The Taste
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2008· 1 entry
Lawson reported that she held a personal fortune of £15 million
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2006· 1 entry
Followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two in 2007
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2005· 1 entry
Lawson started to host a daytime television chat show on ITV1 called Nigella, on which celebrity guests joined her in a studio kitchen
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2004· 1 entry
Conducting cookery slots on talk shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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2003· 1 entry
That Lawson declined an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 2001, explaining that "I'm not saving lives and I'm not doing anything other than something I absolutely love
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2002· 3 entries
When she baked some lavender cupcakes to be auctioned at a fundraising event, which sold for a significant amount of money
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On Channel 4, the concept being, "that you cook to make you still feel as though you're on holiday"
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Lawson also began to write a fortnightly cooking article for The New York Times, and brought out a profitable line of kitchenware, called the Living Kitchen range, which is sold by numerous retailers
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2001· 1 entry
Fending off competition from authors such as J
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2000· 9 entries
“I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.”
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“My sister lives in New York and she was struck by how class-ridden the reviews were. Everyone had to mention that I'm posh. British people are obsessed by that. I said to John, 'I'm not posh.' Is my voice posh?”
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“It’s true that I wouldn’t have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.”
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“It's like I can never watch myself on TV unless I have to do some editing before a show comes out. It's like hearing your voice back on a tape recorder and I'm sure you know how horrible that is. I always look for the worst things in myself - criticising my hair and stuff. I'm very self-conscious about it all.”
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“[A]ll food images, if they are successful, have the power to arouse appetite. They should be luscious and sexy. I have no embarrassment about the culinary come-on. But that's the limit of my erotic intent. I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”
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“I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. [...] My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.”
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“I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can’t find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere – cooking is the neatest thing I do.”
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“But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.”
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Winning the British Book Award for Author of the Year
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1999· 1 entry
Lawson hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook
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1998· 2 entries
Her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller
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Repeatedly guested on Channel 4 cookery series Nigel Slater's Real-Food Show
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1995· 1 entry
Lawson left a two-week stint at Talk Radio UK early after making a statement that her shopping was done for her, apparently due to its incompatibility with the radio station's desired "common touch"
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1992· 1 entry
And had a daughter, Cosima, and a son, Bruno
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1989· 1 entry
When she admitted voting for the Labour Party in the 1987 United Kingdom general election while her father was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative Party government of Margaret Thatcher, and then criticised Th
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1986· 1 entry
When they were both writing for The Sunday Times
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1960· 4 entries
Born 1960-01-06.
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“, Oakland Tribune (4 June 2003) I always wanted to be called Caroline [...] Carolines were always very nice in books. After being asked about growing up with the feminine form of her father”
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In Wandsworth, London, one of the daughters of Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby (1932–2023), a business and finance journalist who later became a Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's
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“, Oakland Tribune (4 June 2003) Nigella Lawson – Britain’s only true”
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1830· 1 entry
To escape a prison sentence following a conviction for theft
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