Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawson (born January 6, 1960 in London ) is an award-winning British television cook and author .
Youth and private life
Nigella Lawson was born in London in 1960 as the daughter of the future British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson and his wife Vanessa Salmon, co-heir of the Lyons Corner House concern, which includes Dunkin 'Donuts . Both parts of the family are of Jewish origin.
After completing her language studies at Oxford University , Nigella Lawson initially worked as a lecturer. From 1985 she wrote restaurant columns for The Spectator . In 1986 Lawson began working as a feature editor for the Sunday Times , where she met journalist John Diamond. In 1989 Diamond and Lawson married and had two children. In 2001, 47-year-old Diamond died of cancer, as did Lawson's mother and sister before.
In 2003 Nigella Lawson married the art dealer Charles Saatchi , a friend of the family. The marriage ended in divorce in July 2013 after a paparazzo published that she had been a victim of domestic violence .
Career as a cookbook author
As a freelance journalist, Lawson published her first cookbook, How to Eat , in 1998 , which became an instant bestseller and sold more than 300,000 copies. Her second book, How to be a Domestic Goddess , followed in 2000 , for which she received the British Book Award. In 2000 she received her own cooking show on Channel 4 , Nigella Bites , which was broadcast in Germany on RTL Living under the title Nigellas Leckerbissen and for which a book of the same name was published. Other cooking shows followed on BBC Two such as Nigella Feasts and Nigella Express . Lawson's shows are broadcast worldwide and are just as successful as her numerous cookbooks, of which she has sold more than three million copies to date.
Books translated into German
- Delicacies (Nigella Bites), 2003 ISBN 3-8310-0475-7
- Seduction to Cook (Forever Summer), 2004 ISBN 3-8310-0655-5
- Festessen (Feast), 2006 ISBN 3-8310-0934-1
- Nigella Express (Nigella Express), 2008 ISBN 978-3-8310-1315-9
- Enjoy in Italian: My Best Recipes (Nigellissima: Instant Italian Inspiration), 2013 ISBN 978-3831023523
Awards
- 2000: British Book Award
- 2001: WH Smith Book Award
- 2001: Guild of Food Writers Award
- 2001: World Food Media Awards
- 2002: WH Smith Book Awards
- 2012: Béchamel Award
Web links
- Nigella Lawson's official website
- Nigella Lawson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unsavory truth about Nigella's family is revealed . In: The Independent . September 27, 2006 ( independent.co.uk [accessed November 19, 2017]).
- ↑ British TV cook Nigella Lawson: The deep fall of the kitchen fairy at spiegel.de, accessed on December 4, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lawson, Nigella |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lawson, Nigella Lucy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cook and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |