Nigella Lawson: A Life Through Food

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

"I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater." So writes Nigella Lawson in the preface to her first book 'How To Eat', published 20 years ago. In this programme, Nigella shares the food memories, the dishes and flavours which have shaped her life. Being taught to cook by a mother with eating disorder, balancing a career in journalism with cooking for young children, what food means when you lose those closest to you, and how navigating a rise to food-icon status sometimes feels like joining the circus. When food writer Diana Henry read 'How To Eat' for the first time, it was on a rainy afternoon after the birth of her first child. Nigella's recipes got Diana back into the kitchen and when she said so in a recent article, she realised the electric influence Nigella has had on home cooks all around the world. Now Diana joins Nigella at home in the kitchen to talk life, death, and roast chicken. Marmite sandwiches to 'Steak Mirabeau', grouse to goose fat to Christmas "goddess". This is Nigella in her own words. Presented by Diana Henry Produced by Clare Salisbury

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0:45.0	My name is Diana Henry, and you're listening to a specially extended festive edition of the Food
0:50.8	Program. In this episode, I had the chance to sit down with one of the
0:55.3	world's best known and most loved food writers and someone I've admired for a very
1:00.4	long time. Perhaps you're making the stuffing or wrapping the last of the Christmas
1:06.2	presents. Maybe it's month since Christmas by now. Whatever you're doing, enjoy.
1:13.0	I have an invite to
1:19.0	I have an invite to dinner and I want you to come with me.
1:23.0	I do you to come with me.
1:24.0	I do tend to move my head a lot so I'm going to do that as I tell you what I have
1:32.2	for breakfast. My host is multi-million selling author and TV cook Nijela Lawson.
1:38.0	I had rye toast with some very good creighton olive oil and a poached egg with
1:46.2	telly cherry peppercorns and mold and salt. My breakfast I have every day.
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