If you're not old enough yet to have experienced the phenomenon of seeing books which still feel kind of newish to you dubbed 'classics', books which you bought brand new, after you'd left home (or worse still, after you'd left university), it is a mildly surreal experience that seems to signal 'middle age approaching'. My copy may not be quite that messy, but it's worn and spine-bent in a way that none of my other books ever have been, certainly none I bought new, and yes, it does have a few stains and splashes on the cover and pages. The book that has clearly done service for 20 years. The one whose spine is torn, whose pages are smeared, smudged and scorched. How to Eat is easy to find on my bookshelf. (It had been waiting for a fortnight in a forest of browser tabs.) It begins: I just got round to reading Nigel Slater's tribute to this book in the article series Observer Food Monthly's Classic Cookbook. More than 2 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. She was voted author of the year at the 2001 British Book Awards. Her style of presentation is often gently mocked by comedians and commentators, particularly in a regularly-occurring impersonation of her in the BBC television comedy series 'Dead Ringers', who perceive that she plays overtly upon her attractiveness and sexuality as a device to engage viewers of her cookery programmes, despite Lawson's repeated denials that she does so. She has had two series of 'Nigella Bites' in 1999-2001, plus a 2001 Christmas special, and 'Forever Summer with Nigella' in 2002, both of which yielded accompanying recipe books.
She has also co-hosted, with David Aaronovitch, Channel 4 books discussion programme 'Booked' in the late 1990s, and was an occasional compere of BBC2's press review 'What the Papers Say', as well as appearing on BBC radio.įollowing slots as a culinary sidekick on Nigel Slater's 'Real Food Show' on Channel 4, she has fronted three eponymous TV cookery series broadcast in the UK on the channel. She became, among other things, a newspaper-reviewer on BBC1 Sunday-morning TV programme 'Breakfast with Frost'.
Lawson wrote a restaurant column for the Spectator and a comment column for The Observer and became deputy literary editor of the Sunday Times in 1986. Lawson attended Godolphin and Latymer School and Westminster School before graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, with a degree in Medieval and Modern Languages. Nigella Lawson is the daughter of former Conservative cabinet minister Nigel Lawson (now Lord Lawson) and the late Vanessa Salmon, socialite and heir to the Lyons Corner House empire, who died of liver cancer in 1985.
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