Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson is a British food writer and television cook who shares recipes, kitchen stories and the pleasures of home cooking, and judges The Great British Bake Off.
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Overview
- Based in
- London
- Before the cookbooks
- Journalist and Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times
- First cookbook
- How to Eat, 1998
- On screen now
- Judge on The Great British Bake Off
Mini bio
How it started.
Before the recipes, there were books and newspapers. Nigella studied Medieval and Modern Languages at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, became Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times at 26, then worked as a freelance journalist and columnist.
Finding her voice.
Her first cookbook, How to Eat, arrived in 1998. She thought it might be a brief detour from journalism, but working on its baking recipes changed her mind about what she could make. That discovery led to How to Be a Domestic Goddess in 2000. Nigella Bites brought her approach to home cooking to television audiences.
A continuing conversation.
Books such as Nigella Express and Cook, Eat, Repeat keep food and the life around it closely connected. Online, she shares recipes and recommends other writers through Cookbook Corner. In 2026 she added a monthly Financial Times column and a judging role on The Great British Bake Off.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2020Cook, Eat, RepeatAuthor
- 2007Nigella ExpressAuthor
- 2000How to Be a Domestic GoddessAuthor
- 1998How to EatAuthor
Television
- 2026The Great British Bake OffJudge
- 2013–2014The TasteJudge and mentor
Awards
Quotes
baking is a curious mixture of chemistry and poetryNigella Lawson, DG 25!
Reflecting on 25 years of How to Be a Domestic Goddess: https://www.nigella.com/latest/domestic-goddess-25th-anniversary
Trivia
- Her Great Aunt Myra introduced her to pea, mint and avocado salad in the 1970s; she later included it in her first book.
- She likes to eat her coffee shortbreads with tea.
- Her first British Vogue cookery column appeared in the December 1995 issue.
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